Associate Director Data Science

Associate Director Data Science
United States - New Jersey - Morris PlainsUnited States - California - Foster City

Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a research-based bio-pharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes innovative medicines in areas of unmet medical need. With each new discovery and investigational drug candidate, we seek to improve the care of patients living with life-threatening diseases around the world. Gilead’s therapeutic areas of focus include HIV/AIDS, liver diseases, cancer and inflammation, and serious respiratory and cardiovascular conditions.

Making an impact on a global scale
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Job Description


Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company that has pursued and achieved breakthroughs in medicine for more than three decades, with the goal of creating a healthier world for all people. The company is committed to advancing innovative medicines to prevent and treat life-threatening diseases, including HIV, viral hepatitis, and cancer. Gilead operates in more than 35 countries worldwide, with headquarters in Foster City, California.

As Associate Director, Data Science, you would start as an individual contributor reporting to Director, Marketing Sciences. Based in NJ/CA; you would be responsible for leading end ot end execution of all kinds of advanced analytics and data science projects to generate Insights that are impactful for global market across TAs. The person will work closely with integrated insights, commercial ops, patient engagement and omni channel analytics leads. Hands on functional expertise and highly collaborative mindset required.

Responsibilities:

• Bring thought leadership and thorough understanding of statistics, primarily predictive algorithms & methodologies, to construct robust propensity models for impactful commercial use
• Be a partner in driving the industrialization of predictive sciences to help understand the patient journey and treatment landscape assessment robustly for the Global markets (primarily Oncology and Virology)
• Create data science products that can be refreshed, reproduced and replicated
• Be a hands-on leader who knows how to code and debug
• Partner with the data office to create ARDs for a broad use case
• Refresh and measure propensity models for impact
• Create advanced visualization to demystify complexity and to make insights actionable
• Partner with global teams to cross-pollinate ideas and replicate successful models from other countries and vice versa
• Foster a culture of measurement and impact and incorporate feedback to continuously improve model performance
• Thorough understanding of datasets including their strengths and limitations such as capture rate, projections and acceptable error ranges for different therapeutic spaces
• Create patient journeys that are descriptive, predictive and prescriptive, based on the brand's strategic objectives
• Excellent communication and ability to abstract backend complexity where it is not needed

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree and Ten Years' Experience
OR
Masters' Degree and Eight Years' Experience
OR
PhD and Two Years' Experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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 ML algorithms such as RNN, CNN, Tree-based algorithms (RF, XGB, LightGBM), SMOTE, etc.
• Familiarity with MLOps solutions / providers
• Expertise in cloud-based technologies and tools such
• Experience in building, implementing and using AI-based solutions with proven business impact
• 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
• Masters degree in a quantitative field with at least 6 years of relevant data science/analytics experience OR Undergraduate degree in a quantitative field with at least 8 years of relevant data science/analytics experience

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