Associate Director, Marketing Sciences

Gilead Sciences•Foster City, CA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

At Gilead our pursuit of a healthier world for all people has yielded a cure for hepatitis C, revolutionary improvements in HIV treatment and prevention as well as advancements in therapies for viral and inflammatory diseases and certain cancers. We set and achieve bold ambitions in our fight against the world’s most devastating diseases, united in our commitment to confronting the largest public health challenges of our day and improving the lives of patients for generations to come. . As an Associate Director, Data Science, you will proactively bring innovative data science techniques and insights to business to drive/support strategic business decisions. You would be responsible for standing up the capability of integrated HCP, patient journey and predictive sciences at scale for commercial market. The person will work closely with integrated insights, commercial ops, patient engagement and omni channel analytics leads. Hands on functional expertise, highly collaborative mindset and leadership skillsets required. This role will report to Sr. Director, Marketing Sciences and is office based/hybrid located in either Foster City, CA or Parsippany, NJ.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree and Ten Years' Experience, Masters' Degree and Eight Years' Experience or PhD and Five Years' Experience
Strong working knowledge of machine learning algorithms, including regression, clustering, neural networks, Bayesian models, RNN, CNN, Tree-based algorithms (RF, XGB, LightGBM), SMOTE and etc.
Experience in building, implementing and using AI-based solutions with proven business impact
Strong leadership that be able to manage initiatives from beginning to end himself/herself
Effective written and verbal communication skills
Results orientation. The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. He/She/They will have a strong drive to meet and exceed goals, even under adverse circumstances, and is willing to take ownership of problems and make decisions in order to move forward. The candidate will be adept at clearly defining objectives and priorities and establishing appropriate milestones through a strong understanding of the market and innovative approaches. He/She/They will assign accountability and incorporate disciplined processes to ensure success and nimbly handle ‘derailments' with contingency plans and coordination.
Team leadership. The successful candidate will have demonstrated the ability to build, develop, and motivate a team as evidenced by effective hiring, coaching, and mentoring of direct reports. Additionally, this individual will have a track record of successfully leveraging diversity of thought to achieve the highest level of results. The ideal candidate will develop an inclusive culture comfortable with challenging current market paradigms to achieve and exceed goals. He/She/They will also have constructed an appropriate succession plan and process.
Strategic Orientation. The successful candidate will be able to articulate evolving priorities for the business, identify market opportunities and adapt short-term plans. This includes the ability to strategically assess customer needs and build/execute specific, segmented strategies to win business across a diverse set of customers. The successful candidate will have passion for, and success in, developing commercial strategies that have measurable business impact.
Collaboration and Influence. The qualified candidate must be able to influence without ownership, which they will do by demonstrating competence and confidence, being personally accessible and likable, being a good listener, use fact-based persuasion, passion, and persistence as appropriate to the audience and issue at stake. Gaining the support and involvement of key internal constituencies will be critical to success, as will influencing those important constituencies external to the company. The successful candidate must therefore have excellent skills at influencing outcomes and shaping and catalyzing dialogue across and outside the organization. Credibility and integrity are critical attributes to effectively command the respect and trust of key individuals

Nice To Haves

Experience in implementing, optimizing and using AI-based solutions to establish proven business impact
Experience working with standard pharma and consumer data types and sources such as patient claims, Xponent, Plantrak, sales, activity.
Expertise in commonly used pharma datasets such as IQVIA, Symphony, Komodo claims, Optum, Definitive health, Health Verity, EMR/HER
Expertise in Python including commonly used data science libraries such as numpy, pandas, scikit-learn, seaborn, networkx, etc.
Expertise in data science techniques such ANCOVA, Bayesian Statistics, Econometric modeling, Neural Networks/Logistic, etc.
Understanding of cloud-based technologies and tools such as Databricks, S3, etc.
Demonstrated product mindset
Familiarity with product management principles
Effective written and verbal communication skills
Strong team player. Inclusive, objective, cross-functional, team member with a positive and solution-oriented mindset
Understanding of emerging data science capabilities (fields, methodologies, algorithms, etc.) and potential application in pharma/health care
Thorough understanding of datasets including their strengths and limitations such as capture rate, projections and acceptable error ranges for different therapeutic spaces
Masters degree in a quantitative field with at least 8 years of relevant data science/analytics experience OR Undergraduate degree in a quantitative field with at least 10 years of relevant data science/analytics experience

Responsibilities

Be a partner in driving the industrialization of predictive sciences to help understand the patient journey and triggers robustly for markets.
Understand Gilead's commercial business objectives, develop and deploy scalable data science products and insights to influence decisions in marketing, sales, medical and etc.
Lead Data science projects end to end include convert unconstructured business questions into data science solutions, give guidance to offshore, be a hands-on leader who knows how to code and debug, communicate with stakeholders and etc.
Foster a culture of measurement and impact and incorporate feedback to continuously improve data science models
Bring thought leadership and thorough understanding of statistics, primarily predictive algorithms & methodologies, to construct robust propensity models for impactful commercial use
Create data science products that can be refreshed, reproduced and replicated
Work with other Data Scientists and Analysts to define retraining schedule and measure propensity models for impact
Partner with global teams to cross-pollinate ideas and replicate successful models from other countries and vice versa
Excellent communication and ability to abstract backend complexity where it is not needed

Benefits

Eligible employees may participate in benefit plans, subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans.
company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans
paid time off
discretionary annual bonus
discretionary stock-based long-term incentives

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