Director, Data Scientist (GDSI) - Care Gap

Director, Data Scientist (GDSI) - Care Gap
United States - California - Foster CityUnited States - New Jersey - Morris Plains

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.

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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.

This role within Gilead's Global Decision Science & Insights organization is responsible for advancing data science applications aimed at enhancing customer engagement for field medical teams. This includes development implementation of care gap analytics leveraging real world data and development of a recommendation system to guide field teams on where they can have the most impact. This role will report to the Senior Director, Data Science.

This individual will work with medical and clinical colleagues to develop requirements and determine the critical business rules that will shape how real-world claims data will be analyzed and interpreted, enabling medical scientists to have data-driven conversations with customers to improve care outcomes. This individual will their functional expertise in data science techniques, methodologies, approaches, and tools to operationalize claims analytics and build a medical field recommendation system that will inform the right customer, right channel, right cadence/sequence, and right content to drive the greatest impact.

Key Responsibilities:

• Key liaison between medical scientist team and our data science team, requiring a familiarity with medical data use cases, clinical knowledge, and data science / advanced analytics
• Conduct independent desk research including medical guideline and literature reviews to inform business rule development
• Own medical recommendation system design, development, and implementation and medical care gap analytics
• Develop and create an algorithm library for recommendation systems, with continual Test and Learn mindset
• Apply different A/B Testing and doing the readout of the results
• Develop scalable solutions to quickly implement from one brand to another
• FRD creation and development of codebase and repositories.
• Help on onboard multiple therapeutic areas/ brands in a phased manner
• Work with cross functional teams across internal (e.g. medical ops, commercial ops, sales, marketing, IT, legal, compliance etc.) and external (consulting partners, data vendors, marketing agencies) stakeholders for developing best in class machine learning models and ML operations at scale.
• Keep abreast of latest developments in the field and mentor and manage data scientists from external consulting partners to help design and develop the care gap analytics
• Take a hands-on role and deliver on highly visible products
• Ensure adaption of data science product with the business users to drive outcome and patient impact
• Off-shore vendor management to ensure development timelines are met and work product is delivered at the highest quality
  

Basic Qualifications:

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

Preferred Qualifications:

• A SME Lead with hands-on experience working with pharma data analytics and a familiarity with medical use cases
• A bachelor's Degree with at least 12 years' experience, a minimum of 10 years' experience with a master's degree, or a minimum of 8 years' experience with a PhD in quantitative field with extensive experience in building and managing touchpoint orchestration capabilities and technologies to deliver seamless customer-centric engagement experience
• Experience using secondary data sources that are extensively used in pharma (e.g. IQVIA LAAD, IQVIA XPO, IQVIA DDD, etc.)
• Work with Gilead IT partners to define specifications for automated campaign data ingestion from marketing agencies into Gilead AWS platform at a pre-defined frequency
• Experience developing, deploying, and operationalizing data science (AI/ML) models to drive recommendations using Reinforcement learning and/or Deep learning algorithms
• Management experience with teams and influencing senior-level management and key stakeholders.
• Proven track record of delivering on programs with complex business deliverables.

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