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Madrigal is a biopharmaceutical company focused on delivering novel therapeutics for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH), a serious liver disease that can progress to cirrhosis, liver failure, need for liver transplantation and premature mortality. Every member of our Madrigal team is connected by our shared purpose: leading the fight against MASH.
Madrigal's medication, Rezdiffra (resmetirom), is a once-daily, oral, liver-directed THR-β agonist designed to target key underlying causes of MASH. Rezdiffra is the first and only medication approved by both the FDA and European Commission for the treatment of MASH with moderate to advanced fibrosis (F2 to F3). An ongoing Phase 3 outcomes trial is evaluating Rezdiffra for the treatment of compensated MASH cirrhosis (F4c).
Our success is driven by our people. We are building a dynamic, inclusive, and high-performing culture that values scientific excellence, operational rigor, and collaboration. To support our continued growth, we are strengthening our workforce strategy to ensure we have the right talent, at the right time, in the right way.
Job Description
Reporting to Executive Director of Data and Analytics as Associate Director of Data and Analytics, you will play a critical leadership role within the Data & Analytics organization, supporting Corporate, Finance, and Supply Chain functions. This role is responsible for translating complex business requirements into scalable analytics, predictive, and conversational analytics solutions by leveraging deep domain expertise and modern data technologies. The Associate Director will oversee solution architecture, data quality, advanced analytics development, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure high-impact, trusted, and transparent insights for the business.
Key Responsibilities
1. Technical Leadership and Strategy:

• Provide technical leadership in the development and implementation of Supply Chain, Finance and corporate function analytics solutions, aligning with business objectives and industry best practices.
• Execute Madrigal's established enterprise data strategy, ensuring alignment with corporate, supply chain, and finance priorities and accelerating analytics delivery.
• Champion data governance, trust, and transparency by leveraging Alation for data cataloging, lineage, metadata management, and access control.

2. Analytics Solution Architecture & Design

• Architect scalable data pipelines and analytics platforms using Azure and Microsoft Fabric, enabling rapid insights and efficient data processing.
• Design and maintain semantic data models and dbt transformations to create well-governed, reusable, and trusted analytics layers.
• Build advanced Power BI dashboards, semantic models, dataflows, and Fabric-based analytics workflows to support enterprise and self-service reporting.
• Integrate Workday, Coupa, NetSuite, and other enterprise systems into unified, high-quality data models supporting corporate, finance, and supply chain analytics needs.

3. Advanced Analytics, Predictive & Conversational Solutions

• Lead the development of predictive models, optimization analytics workflows to support forecasting, financial planning, and supply chain optimization.
• Apply statistical modeling and advanced analytics to extract strategic insights from complex datasets.
• Deliver conversational analytics solutions to support self-service and intuitive data access.

4. Data Quality, Automation, Privacy & Trust

• Develop and automate data quality rules, profiling, and anomaly detection to ensure accuracy, completeness, and consistency of analytics outputs.
• Implement data privacy and policy enforcement workflows using Immuta, ensuring secure, compliant, and governed access to sensitive datasets in partner with data owners/stewards
• Drive enterprise-wide trust by establishing transparent data quality metrics, automated validation layers, and auditable pipelines inside Fabric, dbt, and Azure.

5. Cross-Functional Collaboration & Delivery Execution

• Collaborate with business stakeholders, data engineers, data scientists, and system owners to translate business requirements into technically sound analytics solutions.
• Act as a senior technical partner to business leaders, ensuring analytics solutions meet strategic and operational needs.
• Lead Agile execution through JIRA for sprint management and Confluence for documentation, standards, and process governance.
• Mentor junior analysts and engineers to build technical excellence and cross-functional capabilities.

6. Continuous Improvement, Innovation & Enablement

• Evaluate emerging tools and technologies across analytics engineering, data governance, data quality, and conversational analytics to enhance enterprise capabilities.
• Drive adoption of modern self-service analytics capabilities through semantic modeling, cataloging (Alation), and governed data access (Immuta).
• Contribute to reusable frameworks, best practices, documentation, and governance processes that improve analytics efficiency and ensure data trustworthiness.

Required & Desired Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field; PhD preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in analytics engineering, data engineering, or advanced analytics roles, preferably in the pharmaceutical or life sciences industry.
• Strong proficiency in Python and R, with demonstrated experience in statistical modeling, and analytical computing.
• 8+ years of experience in data manipulation, integration, SQL development, and building scalable data products.
• Proven expertise with visualization and analytics platforms such as Power BI, Tableau, and enterprise BI ecosystems.
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric, including Power BI semantic models, dataflows, pipelines, and workspace governance.
• Deep expertise with dbt for modeling semantic layers and building scalable, modular, production-ready transformations.
• Experience designing and implementing automated data quality rules, profiling, anomaly detection, and validation frameworks.
• Proficiency with Alation for data cataloging, metadata management, lineage, stewardship, and access control.
• Experience working in Agile environments with JIRA and Confluence for project planning, sprint execution, and documentation.
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder-management skills with the ability to influence technical and business teams and drive strategic outcomes.

Competencies

• Strategic Thinking: Ability to translate business priorities into an actionable analytics strategy.
• Analytical Excellence: Demonstrates strong quantitative skills and ensures rigor, transparency, and clarity in insights.
• Influence & Communication: Communicates complex concepts simply, shapes decisions, and engages senior leadership effectively.
• Collaboration: Works effectively across functions and builds strong partnerships.
• Innovation & Continuous Improvement: Drives modernization, automation, and adoption of new technologies.
• Results Orientation: Delivers high-quality work, manages competing priorities, and operates with a bias toward action.

Madrigal offers a competitive Total Rewards strategy to attract and retain top talent and is inclusive of base pay, bonus, equity, and a generous benefits package. Full-time employees are eligible for base salary, bonus, equity, and a comprehensive benefits suite.
Base salary is determined by several factors including the candidate's qualifications, skills, education, experience, business needs, and market demands. As of the date of this posting, a good faith estimate of the current pay scale for this position, applicable to all candidates, is $171,000 - $209,000 per year. We comply with all applicable minimum wage laws.
All full-time employees receive equity, which reinforces our ownership culture and offers meaningful opportunity for our employees to share in the success they help create. By aligning individual and company performance, we empower employees to think like owners, giving them a stake in the organization.
Full-time employees are also eligible for comprehensive benefits, including flexible paid time off, medical, dental, vision and life/disability insurance, and 401(k) offerings (i.e., traditional, Roth, and employer match) in accordance with applicable plans. We also offer additional voluntary benefits like supplemental life insurance, legal services, and other offerings. In addition, we offer mental health benefits through our Employee Assistance Program for employees and their family. The company also provides other benefits in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities throughout the hiring process. If you need assistance, please contact HR@madrigalpharma.com.
Madrigal is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran or disabled status, or other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
Unsolicited resumes from agencies should not be forwarded to Madrigal. Madrigal will not be responsible for any fees arising from the use of resumes through this source. Madrigal will only pay a fee to agencies if a formal agreement between Madrigal and the agency has been established.
Applications are being accepted on an ongoing basis and can be submitted through our Madrigal Careers site.
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