Insight and Analytics Manager - Medical Affairs

Insight and Analytics Manager - Medical Affairs United States - California - Foster City Medical Affairs Regular

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

Gilead is seeking a strategic and collaborative Medical Affairs Insight and Analytics Manager to lead the development of global insight capabilities and best practice, and centralize market research efforts. This role will support the capture, synthesis, and translation of insights across medical affairs and support cross functional connectivity.

Key Responsibilities

1. Capability Building & Standardization

Develop and implement a global insights capability framework including best practices, training, and governance.

Standardize research methodologies across affiliates and functions (e.g., segmentation, ATUs, message testing, journey research).

Lead onboarding and continuous improvement for field insight generation and curation processes.

2. Market Research Centralization

Consolidate market research efforts to reduce redundancy and increase transparency across enterprise-wide studies.

Build centralized repositories and tools for research reports, summaries, and strategic narratives.

Lead governance processes to prioritize research investments and ensure enterprise alignment.

3. Insight Capture & Optimization

Partner with Medical, Commercial, IT, and field teams to improve insight capture processes and data quality.

Design and implement global standards for insight tagging, classification, and routing.

Analyze insights at scale to extract strategic trends, unmet needs, and cross-functional opportunities.

Collaborate with CRM and platform teams to enhance functionality and user experience.

4. Strategic Insight Leadership

Translate fragmented insight signals into clear narratives that inform brand planning, medical strategy, and launch excellence.

Build insight-to-impact reporting models to demonstrate how insights influence decisions and deliver value.

Lead strategic synthesis efforts for priority brands, therapy areas, or enterprise themes.

5. Analytics Enablement for Insight Generation

Partner with analytics teams to define data requirements and build scalable models that support insight generation.

Develop dashboards and reporting tools that integrate field insights, market research, and secondary data.

Ensure alignment between insight capture processes and analytics infrastructure to enable real-time decision support.

Support KPI development and tracking to measure the impact of insights on strategic initiatives.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, marketing, business, or related field (Master’s preferred).

6+ years in pharmaceutical/biotech insights, market research, or analytics roles with global or regional scope.

Proven success in leading cross-functional insight initiatives and capability-building programs.

Strong grasp of qualitative and quantitative research methods and vendor ecosystems.

High fluency in navigating matrix organizations and driving alignment across Commercial, Medical,…