Director, Statistical Programming

Gilead Sciences • Foster City, CA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

This site-based role is at Gilead’s global headquarters in Foster City, California. The position works in a hybrid environment, with three days onsite (Tuesday through Thursday) and two optional work-from-home days.

The role leads organizational use of data for planning, performance management, risk oversight, and continuous improvement. It champions effective data collection, analysis, and visualization; advances the organization’s ability to turn data into insights and action; and establishes knowledge-management systems and data-governance practices. The position also supports business planning and review, conducts operational research, and produces analyses, reports, and dashboards.

In partnership with Finance, the role manages the annual planning cycle for operational and capital expenditures, analyzes opportunities to optimize costs, and develops financial benchmarks. It partners across functions and with external vendors to establish and encourage adoption of performance indicators and metrics. The role also develops training materials and workshops to build analytical capability, and requires strong leadership, communication, change-management, and relationship-building skills.

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 or more years with a master’s degree.
• Extensive experience with data analysis and business performance reporting.
• Advanced analytical skills and experience managing complex business problems, including simplifying ambiguous data sets to derive 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.
• Proficiency in planning and scheduling own and direct reports’ activities to accomplish objectives and goals.
• Experience managing multiple budgets across a variety of currencies.
• Strong financial acumen and experience developing and monitoring large budgets and expenditures in multiple currencies.
• 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, act as a change agent, and influence without authority.
• Knowledge and experience working in the pharmaceutical or another highly regulated sector.
• Excellent written, report-writing, presentation, and interpersonal skills; effective communication and experience presenting to various groups and levels.
• Experience with people management and a proven track record in managing change.
• Strong leadership and conflict-resolution skills.

Responsibilities

• Champion the development and adoption of data collection, analysis, and visualization within the group.
• Drive organizational maturity in turning raw data into information, insights, action, and results.
• Develop and own knowledge-management systems for efficient storage, retrieval, and analysis of key data.
• Establish data-governance best practices and steward data accuracy and validation.
• Support data-driven business planning and review processes.
• Conduct operations research 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.
• Ensure compliance with data-governance standards and develop rigorous, systematic data-curation processes.
• Quantify and communicate risks associated with routine and non-routine business operations, and escalate data accuracy or 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 promote adoption of KPIs and metrics in day-to-day work.
• Apply 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

• Company-sponsored medical insurance
• Company-sponsored dental insurance
• Company-sponsored vision insurance
• Company-sponsored life insurance
• Paid time off
• May be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus
• May be eligible for discretionary stock-based long-term incentives, depending on role

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director