Associate Director, Portfolio Integration & Communications

Gilead Sciences•Foster City, CA

22h

About The Position

The Associate Director, Portfolio Integration & Communications will strengthen coordination, visibility and knowledge-sharing across Gilead’s growing HIV Treatment portfolio. The role leads integrated portfolio and field communications and develops mechanisms that help teams stay connected around priorities, milestones, insights and emerging needs. It connects Portfolio Marketing, Brand Marketing, Sales Leadership, Commercial Learning and Development, Franchise Marketing, Market Access, Medical Affairs and other partners, bringing a portfolio-first perspective while preserving clear brand and functional ownership. The successful candidate is a collaborative, agile marketer who can connect priorities across teams, synthesize complex information into clear implications and recommendations, and influence effectively across a highly matrixed organization. The role supports a more coordinated, portfolio-minded approach by improving visibility across activities, identifying intersections, reducing unnecessary duplication and strengthening information flow between teams. The role also includes people-leader accountabilities: creating inclusion, developing talent through feedback and coaching, and empowering teams by aligning goals and removing barriers.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Life Sciences, Communications or a related field and 8 years of experience; alternatively, a master’s degree and 6 years of experience; alternatively, a PhD.
Demonstrated experience translating complex business and marketing priorities into clear communications, recommendations and coordinated action.
Strong understanding of field communications, sales meeting cycles, training and sustainment needs, and processes for preparing customer-facing teams for evolving business priorities.
Experience connecting priorities and activities across multiple brands, business teams or cross-functional stakeholders.
Experience developing internal communications, planning mechanisms or information-sharing approaches that improve visibility and organizational learning across teams.
Strong strategic thinking and business judgment, including the ability to identify where portfolio-level coordination creates value while maintaining appropriate brand and functional ownership.
Ability to synthesize complex information and diverse stakeholder perspectives into clear, actionable implications and recommendations.
Ability to influence without authority, manage multiple priorities and establish alignment across a highly matrixed organization.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to distill complex information for leadership, field and cross-functional audiences.
Ability to build trusted partnerships, navigate ambiguity and establish effective ways of working across teams with different priorities and ownership areas.

Nice To Haves

Significant pharmaceutical, biotechnology or healthcare industry experience.
Experience in HIV, infectious diseases, specialty care or a related therapeutic area.

Responsibilities

Lead the integrated HIV Treatment portfolio communications cadence across field and internal forums, including Field Direction Memos, national training calls, sustainment initiatives, leadership communications and other priority touchpoints.
Translate portfolio priorities into clear, coordinated and actionable communications for Sales leadership, customer-facing teams and cross-functional partners.
Partner with Sales Leadership, Commercial Learning and Development, and Brand Marketing to integrate portfolio priorities into field meetings, training and communications.
Maintain visibility across planned brand and portfolio communications to improve sequencing, clarify priorities and reduce unnecessary duplication.
Support field readiness for launches, strategic shifts, access changes and other cross-brand priorities by connecting relevant owners and coordinating communications.
Gather field and stakeholder feedback to identify communication gaps, information needs and opportunities to strengthen portfolio connectivity.
Create integrated visibility across portfolio and brand activities, including market research, customer insights, workshops, major meetings, external engagements and key milestones.
Maintain shared portfolio calendars, internal communications and other mechanisms that help teams anticipate activities, identify intersections and collaborate across brands and functions.
Connect teams around relevant insights, research, approaches and best practices to strengthen organizational learning across the portfolio.
Lead internal portfolio communications that inform teams of priorities, milestones, decisions and emerging learnings.
Identify cross-brand dependencies, communication gaps and opportunities for greater coordination, consistency, learning and reduced duplication.
Synthesize portfolio, field and cross-functional inputs to identify coordination needs, communication implications and opportunities for alignment.
Support coordinated portfolio representation in selected external environments in partnership with Franchise Marketing and other functions, while maintaining Franchise ownership of congress strategy, opinion leader engagement and established responsibilities.
Identify opportunities for shared portfolio communications, planning mechanisms and ways of working across brands.
Surface cross-brand dependencies and connect appropriate brand and functional owners to enable aligned action.
Partner with Portfolio Marketing leads, including Portfolio Access & Enablement, to identify portfolio-level needs, connect stakeholders and coordinate input across brands and functions.
Connect teams to reuse, adapt or scale successful approaches and learnings rather than develop duplicative solutions.
Establish mechanisms for bringing common needs to brand and functional owners without duplicating existing ownership or execution responsibilities.
Use business judgment to determine when portfolio-level coordination adds value and when work should remain brand- or function-led.
Influence without direct authority to build alignment and advance coordinated priorities across a complex, matrixed organization.
Build relationships across brands and functions and serve as a trusted connector who helps teams identify intersections, resolve coordination gaps and advance shared priorities.
Help establish scalable ways of working that strengthen communication, knowledge-sharing, transparency and coordination across the HIV Treatment portfolio.
Promote portfolio-minded collaboration while maintaining clear ownership and sharing information, insights and successful approaches.
Create inclusion by modeling inclusion and embedding the value of diverse teams in team management.
Develop talent by understanding employees’ skills, experience, aspirations and potential, and coaching them on performance and development.
Empower teams by aligning goals with organizational objectives, holding teams accountable, removing barriers and connecting them to the broader organization.