Associate Director, Portfolio Integration & Communications

Gilead Sciences • Foster City, CA

2d • $195,670 - $253,220

About The Position

The Associate Director, Portfolio Integration & Communications will strengthen connectivity across Gilead’s growing HIV Treatment portfolio by increasing visibility, coordination, and knowledge-sharing across brands, field teams, and cross-functional partners. The role leads integrated portfolio and field communications and establishes mechanisms that help teams stay connected around priorities, milestones, insights, and emerging needs. It helps identify intersections, reduce unnecessary duplication, and support coordinated portfolio action while preserving clear brand and functional ownership.

The Associate Director serves as a connector across Portfolio Marketing, Brand Marketing, Sales Leadership, Commercial Learning and Development, Franchise Marketing, Market Access, Medical Affairs, and other partners. The successful candidate is a collaborative and agile marketer who can connect priorities across teams, synthesize complex information into clear implications and recommendations, and influence effectively within a highly matrixed organization.

The role also includes people-leader accountabilities: creating an inclusive environment, developing talent through coaching and feedback, and empowering teams by aligning goals and removing barriers. The position offers a salary range of $195,670 to $253,220 and may be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus, discretionary stock-based long-term incentives, paid time off, and company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, subject to applicable plan terms and eligibility.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Life Sciences, Communications, or a related field and 8 years of experience; or a master’s degree and 6 years of experience; or a Ph.D.
• Ability to translate 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 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.
• Strong strategic thinking and business judgment, including identifying 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, 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 communication cycles.
• 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 appropriate 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 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 and help learnings travel across the portfolio.
• Lead internal portfolio communications that keep teams informed of priorities, milestones, decisions, and emerging learnings.
• Identify cross-brand dependencies, communication gaps, and opportunities for coordination that can improve consistency, accelerate learning, or reduce 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 that strengthen coordination 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 around opportunities 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 activity should remain brand- or function-led.
• Bring a portfolio-first perspective while respecting differentiated brand strategies, alliance requirements, and functional ownership.
• Influence without direct authority to build alignment and advance coordinated portfolio priorities across a complex matrixed organization.
• Communicate complex information clearly and concisely to leadership, field, and cross-functional audiences.
• Build relationships across brands and functions and serve as a trusted connector who helps teams identify intersections, resolve coordination gaps, and advance shared priorities.
• 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 diversity 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.

Benefits

• Discretionary annual bonus eligibility
• Discretionary stock-based long-term incentives, with eligibility varying by role
• Paid time off
• Company-sponsored medical insurance
• Company-sponsored dental insurance
• Company-sponsored vision insurance
• Company-sponsored life insurance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director