Director, Corporate Development -- Inflammation/Immunology

Gilead Sciences • Foster City, CA

14d • Onsite

About The Position

At Gilead, we’re creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years, we’ve tackled diseases such as HIV, viral hepatitis, COVID-19 and cancer – working relentlessly to develop therapies that help improve lives and to ensure access to these therapies across the globe. We continue to fight against the world’s biggest health challenges, and our mission requires collaboration, determination and a relentless drive to make a difference. Every member of Gilead’s team plays a critical role in the discovery and development of life-changing scientific innovations. Our employees are our greatest asset as we work to achieve our bold ambitions, and we’re looking for the next wave of passionate and ambitious people ready to make a direct impact. We believe every employee deserves a great leader. People Leaders are the cornerstone to the employee experience at Gilead and Kite. As a people leader now or in the future, you are the key driver in evolving our culture and creating an environment where every employee feels included, developed and empowered to fulfil their aspirations. Join Gilead and help create possible, together. Job Description The Search and Evaluation group in Corporate Development identifies, engages, and evaluates external preclinical and clinical-stage opportunities aligned with Gilead’s R&D strategy. The key roles of the position are to identify and lead the evaluation of external opportunities, drive the deep scientific cross-functional diligence of select opportunities, and oversee and guide the presentation of diligence findings to Gilead’s Senior leadership. This role will sit in Foster City, CA. This position will focus on identification and evaluation of external Inflammation opportunities with support, as needed, for other Therapeutic Areas including Virology, Oncology, Cell Therapy and Technologies and Platforms. The role requires significant scientific expertise in Inflammation and a firm understanding of and significant experience in drug discovery and/or development in Biotech/Pharma. The position requires deep collaborative engagement within Corporate Development and with key stakeholders within Gilead’s R&D leadership. Diligence efforts are supported internally through highly collaborative effort utilizing teams comprised of functional delegates. The position enables and requires close partnership with colleagues in Corporate Development responsible for leading transactions/contracting and enables collaborative involvement in term sheet, contract negotiations and Research plans associated with collaborations. Based on candidate interest, the position can enable career development more broadly in Corporate Development by allowing for transaction and contract experience with potential for a future transition, if desired, from a science-focused role in Search and Evaluation to a more traditional transaction role in Corporate Development.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree and Twelve Years’ Experience OR Masters' Degree and Ten Years’ Experience OR PhD and Eight Years’ Experience
• Significant expertise and experience in Inflammation.
• Ability to lead, guide and closely collaborate with cross-functional teams and effectively engage and communicate with diligence team members and Gilead’s leadership.
• Strong commitment and demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and inclusively.
• Capable of managing and prioritizing parallel activities in a fast-paced work environment.
• Advanced written and oral communication skills with ability to summarize and objectively present complex scientific information.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree with 12+ years of professional and scientific experience, Master’s Degree with 10+ years scientific experience, or PhD/PharmD/DVM/MD or similar life sciences education with 5-8+ years of scientific experience in the biotech or pharmaceutical industry.
• Experience or previous role in Corporate Development or Search and Evaluation is optimal but not required.

Responsibilities

• Proactively identify, engage, and evaluate external opportunities aligned with Gilead’s R&D Inflammation strategies.
• Work directly with Gilead’s Competitive Intelligence group to understand therapeutic area landscapes, inflection points of key clinical stage programs, and define competitive landscapes for targets/programs of interest.
• Present new opportunity summaries and recommendations to therapeutic area leadership at regular triage meetings.
• Lead cross-functional scientific diligence teams assembled to deeply evaluate selected opportunities – summarize key findings, key risks, next steps for additional diligence, and team recommendation and for programs which progress, subsequently prepare and present with the diligence team and Corporate Development transaction lead the opportunity to Gilead’s internal Governance body for approval to proceed with financial and contract negotiations with the external party.
• Be a highly collaborative and inclusive team member of the Corporate Development organization.
• Partner with Corporate Development Business leads to help define structure and terms for proposals.
• The position also offers the opportunity to learn the financial, business, and contractual aspects of partnering and acquisitions based on applicant’s career aspirations.

Benefits

• This position may also be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus, discretionary stock-based long-term incentives (eligibility may vary based on role), paid time off, and a benefits package.
• Benefits include company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans.
• For additional benefits information, visit: https://www.gilead.com/careers/compensation-benefits-and-wellbeing
• Eligible employees may participate in benefit plans, subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans.

What This Job Offers

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