Sr Manager, Data & Systems Lead

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

At Gilead our pursuit of a healthier world for all people has yielded a cure for hepatitis C, revolutionary improvements in HIV treatment and prevention as well as advancements in therapies for viral and inflammatory diseases and certain cancers.

We set and achieve bold ambitions in our fight against the world’s most devastating diseases, united in our commitment to confronting the largest public health challenges of our day and improving the lives of patients for generations to come.

The Senior Manager, Data & Systems Lead is a single‑threaded owner for CEOPs data products, measurement, and system enablement. This role provides functional leadership across data, systems, and insights without direct people management. The focus is on setting standards, driving clarity, influencing cross‑functional partners, and ensuring CEOPs leaders have trusted, timely data and fit‑for‑purpose systems to run the business.

This role is accountable for end‑to‑end data and system outcomes—from defining what we measure, to how data is produced and governed, to ensuring insights translate into durable system and process improvements.

Primary Accountabilities

• Single‑threaded owner for CEOPs data products, including dashboards, scorecards, reporting, and data quality standards.
• Owner of CEOPs system readiness and change delivery across the full lifecycle (requirements → build/enhancement → UAT → release → adoption).
• Owner of the CEOPs measurement framework, ensuring clear definitions and alignment across inputs, outputs, timeliness, quality, and outcomes (where available).
• Accountable for closed‑loop improvement by converting post‑event insights into sustained data, system, and automation enhancements.

Key Responsibilities

Data, Metrics & Governance Leadership

• Define and maintain CEOPs KPIs, metric definitions, and data governance standards, including taxonomy, sources of truth, and refresh cadence.
• Establish consistency and rigor in how CEOPs performance is measured and reported across programs and therapeutic areas.
• Monitor data quality, proactively identify issues, and coordinate resolution with IT, analytics, and platform partners.

Reporting & Insights Enablement

• Design and maintain role‑based dashboards and standardized reporting to support QBRs, retrospectives, and leadership updates.
• Enable self‑service analytics where appropriate, reducing manual reporting effort and increasing speed to insight.
• Translate complex data into clear, decision‑ready insights for CEOPs and executive stakeholders.

Systems Ownership & Change Delivery

• Own CEOPs system maintenance and enhancement requests, including feature requests, automation opportunities, and integration needs.
• Drive requirements definition, prioritization, and delivery in partnership with IT, analytics, and external vendors.
• Lead UAT coordination and release readiness, ensuring changes land on time and are validated before program execution when required.
• Partner cross‑functionally to ensure system documentation and reporting definitions accurately reflect current system behavior.

Influence & Functional Leadership

• Act as the functional authority for CEOPs data and systems, setting direction and standards adopted by cross‑functional teams.
• Influence without authority by aligning stakeholders around shared outcomes, trade‑offs, and priorities.
• Serve as a thought partner to CEOPs leadership on how data and systems can scale, simplify, and improve operational effectiveness.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of relevant experience OR
• Master’s degree (MS/MA/MBA) with 6+ years of relevant experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced experience leading data and systems initiatives in complex, matrixed organizations.
• Strong command of analytics, BI tools, and data visualiz