Associate Director, Data Science- Commercial

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At Gilead, we’re creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years, we’ve tackled diseases such as HIV, viral hepatitis, COVID-19 and cancer – working relentlessly to develop therapies that help improve lives and to ensure access to these therapies across the globe. We continue to fight against the world’s biggest health challenges, and our mission requires collaboration, determination and a relentless drive to make a difference.   Every member of Gilead’s team plays a critical role in the discovery and development of life-changing scientific innovations. Our employees are our greatest asset as we work to achieve our bold ambitions, and we’re looking for the next wave of passionate and ambitious people ready to make a direct impact.   We believe every employee deserves a great leader. People Leaders are the cornerstone to the employee experience at Gilead and Kite. As a people leader now or in the future, you are the key driver in evolving our culture and creating an environment where every employee feels included, developed and empowered to fulfil their aspirations. Join Gilead and help create possible, together. Job Description   As 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 based in either Foster City, CA or Parsippany, NJ. 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 • Manage DS initiatives and deliveries for a priority TA Competencies: 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 conti

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