Executive Director of Global Insights & Analytics

Reporting to the Vice President of Global Analytics & Commercial Operations, Kite’s Executive Director of Global Insights & Analytics acts as a strategic thought partner and advisor to senior stakeholders. Such stakeholders include the regional commercial heads, and leadership of Global Marketing, Corporate Strategy, Finance, Business Development, Global Portfolio & Pipeline Strategy, and Supply Chain. The Executive Director will set and drive the priorities to advance a data first approach to integrated insights and strategic planning globally. As a strategic analytical leader, you will help frame key business questions and connect the dots across insights and data to provide opportunity and performance analysis with actionable insights to impact Commercial strategy and implementation for inline and pipeline products. This role guides and supports a team of insights and analytics professionals accountable for market research, forecasting, analytics, and global reporting. You will be responsible for creating an environment where team members are highly motivated and engaged, professional development and growth is prioritized, and cross-functional collaboration thrives. Internally known as the Executive Director of Marketing Sciences, a demonstrated ability to influence without authority and deep collaboration skills are critical for impactful results.

This role can based out of Kite’s Santa Monica, CA Headquarters (Santa Monica, CA – our preference) or Gilead’s Headquarters (Foster City, CA) with relocation provided exclusively to Santa Monica, CA. Should the role be based in Foster City, CA, at least 1 week a month would be required working from Santa Monica, CA.

Responsibilities of the Executive Director of Global Insights & Analytics includes:

Insights, Analytics, and Operations

• Lead team to develop and deliver integrated insights and data inspired recommendations to support business strategy and execution.
• Lead key global commercial processes, including long-range planning, Quarterly and Monthly Business Reviews, global analytics and reporting, global Commercial demand planning, regional market insights and forecasting for all ex-US regions, and pipeline opportunity analysis.
• Collaborate effectively across multiple stakeholder groups including sales, marketing, market access, customer experience, finance, and corporate strategy to define and implement a comprehensive integrated insights plan and support critical business planning processes.
• Work with other commercial functions to define KPIs and ensure methods are in place to measure and report on them on a regular basis to assess performance and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Serve as single point of contact to key Commercial leaders on insights, analytics, and forecasting including the GM of International, GM of ACE (Europe, Canada, Australia), and Vice President of Global Commercial Strategy, Value, and Access.
• Champion the use of advanced analytics, machine learning, digital, and AI to unlock new business opportunities and improve operational efficiencies through meaningful collaboration with the Global Data & Digital Innovation (GDDI) team
• Partner with finance to support quarterly earnings and investor relations processes.
• Seek opportunities to streamline and improve business operations and technical capabilities of the organization while identifying opportunities to innovate to strengthen performance.
• Ability to travel ~20% of the time, including internationally, is required.
  
  

Leadership, Influence, and Communication

• Develop trust and be a strategic thought partner.
• Lead a team of professionals, maintaining an environment consistent with Kite’s core values, fostering and actively supporting individual development, and inspiring talent retention.
• Collaborate effectively with senior leaders across multiple functions.
• Communicate complex dynamics/challenges clearly and concisely to senior leaders.
• Provide recommendations with impartiality and actionable insights to senior and executive stakeholders.
• Ensure the team is working effectively with cross-functional partners in to maintain strategic alignment, produce high quality deliverables, and achieve performance goals.
• Navigate organizational complexity effectively in a professional manner.
• Demonstrate deep Kite core values – Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, Teamwork and Inclusion.
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• PhD degree with 12+ years of sales and/or marketing experience
  
  

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• MA / MS degree with 14+ years of sales and/or marketing experience
  
  

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• BS / BA degree with 16+ years of sales and/or marketing experience
  
  

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• Associate degree with 18+ years of sales and/or marketing experience
  
  

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• High School Diploma / GED with 20+ years of sales and/or marketing experience
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in oncology and/or rare diseases is highly preferred; knowledge of market research and metrics approaches in Europe, Asia, and LATAM highly preferred.
• Prior management consulting experience in life sciences highly preferred.
• Excellent leadership experience with demonstrated ability to lead without authority and collabo-rate cross-functionally.
• Thorough understanding of pharmaceutical sales and marketing practices, product lifecycle management, and regulatory environment.
• Demonstrated ability to cultivate large cross-functional initiatives and guide laterally and vertically.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities based on changing business needs, as well as ability to work in a team-based, exciting environment.
• Thorough organizational, planning, communication, and project management skills.
• Excellent understanding of primary qualitative and quantitative market research techniques and their optimal use in business decisions.
• Creative and thoughtful problem solving skills
• Persuasive written and verbal communication skills, ability to lead, guide, resolve conflict, and cultivate consensus among diverse cross-functional stakeholders.
  
  

Does this sound like you? If so, please apply today!

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