Kite Pharma, Inc. is hiring a Sr Manager, Pharma Commercial Data Management to lead the development, stewardship, and operations of scalable, analytics-ready data products. In this role, you will translate business needs into functional data requirements, partner with IT to deliver robust data infrastructure, and ensure high-quality, governed data assets that power insights and decision-making across the organization.
What You'll Do
- Understand business use cases and translate them into clear, actionable functional requirements for data models.
- Collaborate with Intelligence Product Owners and Analytics teams to document business rules and ensure alignment with analytical needs.
- Lead the design and evolution of scalable data architecture across insights and analytics products.
- Define and maintain logical and physical data models that support reusability, performance, and governance.
- Collaborate closely with Gilead IT to execute new build projects and enhancements.
- Oversee and guide DevOps teams to ensure timely and high-quality delivery of data solutions.
- Align technical design with business requirements and ensure architectural consistency.
- Ensure operational excellence in data ingestion, transformation, and delivery processes.
- Build and maintain robust, scalable, and automated data pipelines across internal and external sources.
- Manage HCP (Healthcare Professional) and Account MDM systems to ensure accurate, complete, and unified customer profiles.
- Ensure MDM processes and outputs align with Kite’s business requirements and downstream analytics needs.
- Ensure data products are clean, timely, and analytics-ready through rigorous stewardship practices.
- Drive data quality monitoring, alerting, and remediation processes.
- Manage vendor SLAs and ensure adherence to data quality standards.
- Oversee governance practices including metadata management, access control, and data lineage.
- Ensure compliance with internal policies and external regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA).
- Create clear specifications and Functional Impact Assessments (FIAs) for onboarding new data sources.
- Establish, monitor, and enforce SLAs with external vendors to ensure timely and accurate data delivery.
- Lead onboarding of new data sources, stabilize them to a steady state, and manage ongoing cadence with data partners.
- Advance the vision of enabling self-service for commercial business functions by increasing access to trusted data and insights.
- Mature the Pace Data Lab roadmap by integrating new data sources and expanding capabilities.
- Leverage AI tools to simplify on-demand access to insights and empower business users.
What We're Looking For
- Master’s degree in Data Management, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field and 6 years of related experience
- OR Bachelor’s degree in Data Management, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field and 8 years of related experience
Nice to Have
- 8+ years of experience in data management, data modeling and operations preferably in a life sciences company
- 5+ years working with pharmaceutical data
- Experience in Data Governance - MDM, Data Stewardship, data quality management
- Experience building and operating Data warehouse/Datalake on cloud
- Hands-on experience with modern data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, AWS/GCP/Azure). Knowledge of AWS, Databricks, Tableau is highly preferred
- Proven experience leading cross-functional data initiatives and managing teams or vendor partners.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts into business value.
- Excellent ability to build partnerships and work collaboratively
- Ability to present data and initiatives to a diverse set of audiences
Technical Stack
- Snowflake
- Databricks
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- Tableau
Team & Environment
You will partner with Gilead IT and DevOps teams.
Benefits & Compensation
- Company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans
- Paid time off
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Discretionary stock-based long-term incentives
- Compensation: Other US Locations: $153,935.00 - $199,210.00. Bay Area: $169,320.00 - $219,120.00.
Kite Pharma is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment, and is dedicated to fostering an inclusive work environment comprised of diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences.
