Director, Statistical Programming
About The Position
Gilead is hiring a Director, Statistical Programming. This site-based role is at the company’s global headquarters in Foster City, California, with a hybrid schedule of three onsite days (Tuesday through Thursday) and two optional work-from-home days. The position champions the use of data collection, analysis, and visualization; advances organizational data maturity; and develops knowledge-management systems and data-governance practices. It supports business planning and reviews, operational research, performance and risk reporting, and quantification of project gains. The role also oversees data-related risk management, including compliance with governance standards, rigorous data curation, communicating operational risks, and escalating data accuracy or compliance issues. In partnership with Finance, the director manages the annual business planning cycle for operational and capital expenditures, analyzes cost-optimization opportunities, and develops financial benchmarks. The role partners across functions and with vendors to develop and adopt KPIs, and supports continuous improvement through new analytical methods, training plans, materials, and workshops.
Requirements
- Relevant university degree in a technical or business field, such as computer science, statistics, data management, engineering, business, or finance.
- 12 years of progressive experience in a technical field with a bachelor’s degree, or 10+ years with a master’s degree.
- Extensive experience with data analysis and business performance reporting.
- Advanced analytical skills, including experience managing complex business problems and simplifying ambiguous data sets to identify meaningful insights.
- Proficiency in collecting, analyzing, and visualizing data; familiarity with tools such as R, Python, and Tableau.
- Ability to develop schemes, systems, and programs for continuous improvement.
- Ability to plan and schedule own activities and direct reports’ activities to accomplish objectives and goals.
- Experience managing multiple budgets across a variety of currencies, including developing and monitoring large budgets and expenditures.
- Extensive experience in business performance reporting and optimization, with a track record of creating and improving processes and systems.
- Ability to build effective working relationships across functions and influence without authority as a change agent.
- Knowledge and experience working in the pharmaceutical or another highly regulated sector.
- Excellent written, report-writing, presentation, and interpersonal skills; experience presenting to varied groups and levels.
- Experience with people management and a proven track record in managing change.
- Strong financial acumen.
- Excellent leadership and conflict-resolution skills.
Responsibilities
- Champion the development and adoption of data collection, analysis, and visualization within the group.
- Drive organizational maturity along the data journey, from raw data to information, insights, action, and results.
- Develop and own knowledge-management systems for efficient storage, retrieval, and analysis of key data.
- Set data-governance best practices and steward data accuracy and validation.
- Support data-driven business planning and review processes.
- Conduct Operations Research projects to identify opportunities to optimize performance and minimize cost and risk.
- Publish analyses, reports, and dashboards that provide an objective view of performance and risk.
- Quantify and report gains from identified and implemented projects.
- Ensure compliance with data-governance standards and develop processes for rigorous, systematic data curation.
- Quantify and communicate risks associated with routine and non-routine business operations; escalate data accuracy and compliance issues as necessary.
- Manage the annual business planning cycle for operational and capital expenditures in partnership with Finance.
- Analyze cost-optimization opportunities and formulate recommendations to realize efficiencies.
- Establish and develop financial benchmarks for projects and operations.
- Partner cross-functionally to develop leading indicators that provide visibility into performance and risk.
- Work with internal partners and external vendors to encourage adoption of KPIs and metrics in day-to-day work.
- Incorporate external knowledge and expertise to adopt new methods of analyzing and presenting data.
- Create training plans and materials and conduct workshops on analytical tools and initiatives.
Benefits
- Discretionary annual bonus eligibility.
- Discretionary stock-based long-term incentives; eligibility may vary by role.
- Paid time off.
- Company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
