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Job Description
Senior Manager (IT)
Role Purpose
We are seeking a Senior Manager / Associate Director to join the Data & AI Centre of Excellence within IT. This is a hands-on, technically grounded leadership role for an individual who thrives at the intersection of AI product management, MLOps engineering, and cloud architecture.
In this role, you will own the end-to-end delivery and lifecycle management of AI-powered products and platforms, from ideation through production deployment and scaling. You will partner closely with data scientists, engineers, commercial stakeholders, and strategic vendors to ensure our AI solutions are robust, well-governed, and deliver measurable business value.
Key Responsibilities:
AI Product Management
Own and drive the product roadmap and delivery of AI/ML solutions supporting commercial analytics, field excellence, and HCP engagement use cases
Translate business requirements into clear, well-defined product backlogs in close collaboration with commercial stakeholders across Rest of World (RoW) markets
Champion user adoption by establishing continuous feedback loops and iterating AI products based on real-world usage and impact
Ensure AI products deliver tangible commercial outcomes and align with enterprise strategy
MLOps & AI Engineering
Design, implement, and manage scalable MLOps pipelines covering model training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and retraining
Establish and enforce ML governance standards, including model versioning, experiment tracking, bias detection, drift monitoring, and lineage
Promote engineering best practices across the AI lifecycle, including CI/CD for ML, automated testing, containerisation, and infrastructure as code
Collaborate with data engineering teams to ensure strong feature stores, high-quality data pipelines, and seamless integration with the enterprise data platform (Databricks Unity Catalog)
Collaboration & Leadership
Act as a trusted bridge between technical delivery teams and non-technical commercial stakeholders
Communicate complex AI and data concepts clearly and effectively to support informed decision-making
Influence cross-functional teams and vendor partners to drive high-quality, production-ready AI solutions
Must-Have Qualifications
Proven experience as a Product Manager or Technical Product Manager delivering AI/ML products in an enterprise environment
Strong, hands-on knowledge of MLOps tools, frameworks, and best practices
Deep expertise in at least one major cloud platform (AWS or Azure), with relevant certifications preferred (e.g. AWS Solutions Architect, Azure AI Engineer)
Experience with tools such as Databricks Genie and/or Copilot Studio
Bachelor’s degree in Science, Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent degree combined with substantial hands-on technical experience
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Top Skills
Gilead Sciences London, England Office
280 High Holborn, London, United Kingdom, WC1V 7EE
Gilead Sciences Uxbridge, England Office
2 Roundwood Avenue, Stockley Park, Uxbridge, United Kingdom, UB11 1AF
