Senior Data Analyst

For Current Kite Pharma Employees and Contractors: Please log onto your Internal Career Site to apply for this job. At Kite, we empower our leaders to step up, share ideas, listen, learn, and lead. We’re welcoming bright, diverse, and imaginative minds; we’re nurturing them to foster an environment of inclusion and growth where innovation is encouraged. We expect our people leaders to model that environment, and to focus on creating inclusion, developing talent, and enabling teams. Job Description Kite is seeking a highly motivated individual with data science experience to work on statistical analysis and modeling to support for the manufacturing of innovative T cell therapies used for cancer treatment. As a Senior Data Analyst for Manufacturing Sciences and Technology (MSAT), you will develop, evaluate, and deploy models to support decision making within MSAT. Deliver this by driving commercial GMP manufacturing statistical techniques, predictive and trending analysis that would provide oversight for GMP manufacturing for Kite’s engineered autologous T cell therapy products. Act as an internal consultant by integrating with different departments to identify opportunities, scope and define problems, performing data analysis, and interpret the results, draw conclusions, and present findings / recommendations to appropriate groups to help identify actionable steps to be taken by cross-functional and leadership teams. Mentor more junior staff, guide predictive model development across team, define how to use the models and train users on integration. In your new role, you will: Undertake preprocessing of structured and unstructured data; Collect, cleanse, and understand complex data sources to enable proper analytical modeling; Build actionable KPIs, quality dashboards, informative deep dives, and scalable data products; Research, design, develop, test, and implement advanced analytics methods to drive insights; Analyze data to discover trends and patterns; Define and develop programming for decision support solutions that leverage predictive, prescriptive, and scenario optimization tactics; Build advanced process monitoring analytics based on multivariate analysis and inform improvements within MSAT; Conduct proper stakeholder management to ensure alignment; Design and build advanced visualization tools that will simplify the outputs of the models, with the goal of being integrated into a self-service operational model across MSAT; Develop professional presentations and project status reporting Additional duties as assigned. Your profile You have an undergraduate Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics or a similar field. Master's degree preferred; You have previous work experience in biotechnology and pharma industry with data analytics, applied statistics, quantitative modelling and statistical analysis using R,JMP or Statistica. Familiarity with predicting modeling is a plus; You have previous experience or willing to learn programming languages such as R and SQL to develop and apply advanced modeling; Experience with data visualization tool Power BI or Spotfire; Well versed in cGMP manufacturing and regulatory regulations and requirements for pharmaceuticals and devices; Demonstrated ability to translate analytical insights into clear recommendations and effectively communicate them to technical and non-technical stakeholders; Kite is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the development of innovative cancer immunotherapies with a goal of providing rapid, long-term durable response and eliminating the burden of chronic care. The company is focused on chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) and T cell receptor (TCR) engineered cell therapies designed to empower the immune system's ability to recognize and kill tumors. Kite is based in Santa Monica, CA. For more information on Kite, please visit www.kitepharma.com. 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Except if otherwise provided by applicable law, all employment actions relating to issues such as compensation, benefits, transfers, layoffs, returns from layoffs, company-sponsored training, education assistance, social and recreational programs are administered on a non-discriminatory basis (i.e. without regard to protected characteristics or prohibited grounds, which may include an individual’s gender, race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, creed, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, medical condition, veteran status, and age, unless such protection is prohibited by federal, state, municipal, provincial, local or other applicable laws). Gilead also prohibits discrimination based on any other characteristics protected by applicable laws. For Current Kite Pharma Employees and Contractors: Please log onto your Internal Career Site to apply for this job. Change The World With Us Everyone at Kite is grounded by one common goal – curing cancer. Every day, we aim to establish a direct line between that purpose and our day-to-day work. We are creating Kite together, with the recognition that the best teams are built by the best people. We maintain an attitude of curiosity, and creativity with each challenge as we develop a new market for cancer therapies. We appreciate and respect one another, and most importantly, we don’t take success for granted. While we’ve come a long way to make what others viewed as impossible, possible, we know one thing is certain. Today is just the beginning.