Executive Director, Commercial Data Science, Data Management

Gilead Sciences

Executive Director of Data Science and Management at Gilead leading strategic oversight and data capabilities. Collaborating with various functions to implement commercial data strategies across U.S.

Posted 4/14/2026full-timeParsippany • California, New Jersey • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $274,550 - $355,300 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Report to the VP of Global Decision Sciences and Insights
Hold responsibility for managing the strategic direction
Oversight of all data management activities and data science vision across Insights and Analytics, G9 core countries, and brands
Build and evolve data science capabilities for US and Ex-US markets
Serve as center of excellence at scale
Collaborate with Marketing Sciences, Affiliate Insights and Analytics leadership, R&D, Procurement, Medical Affairs, IT, and other functions
Implement the Commercial data backbone and Data science capability
Evolve the Data Science and Data Management capabilities backbone for Commercial organization
Integrate and design data strategy of the enterprise for complex data science use cases
Create standards of excellence for data quality
Work seamlessly with IT and Affiliate leadership for effective use of process and infrastructure

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 16 years experience, or a minimum of 14 years’ with an advanced degree (e.g. MBA/MS or Doctoral degree)
Proven leadership in the pharmaceutical and or/health tech industry.
Knowledge of analytics approaches in biopharma including descriptive and predictive analytics as well as primary research approaches in competitive intelligence, quantitative and qualitative market research
Understanding of emerging capabilities in natural language processing, unstructured data, etc. and potential application in pharma/health care
Ability to translate complex data insights into actionable business recommendations
Recruited, developed, mentored and motivated executives as well as built teams of Data Analysts, Data Scientists and Data Designers that deliver results and achieve objectives to support business needs
Excellent influencing and networking skills paired with stakeholder management experience in a multi-layered global environment
Experience in Agile methodology and execution and design thinking
Availability to travel internationally as required.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
dental
vision
life insurance plans
paid time off

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Hard Skills & Tools

data managementdata scienceanalyticsnatural language processingdescriptive analyticspredictive analyticsquantitative researchqualitative researchdata strategyAgile methodology

Soft Skills

leadershipinfluencing skillsnetworking skillsstakeholder managementmentoringteam buildingcommunicationcollaborationstrategic thinkingproblem-solving

Certifications

Bachelor's degreeMBAMSDoctoral degree