Exec Director, PDM Strategy

Gilead Sciences • Foster City, CA

2d • $274,550 - $390,830

About The Position

Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company that has pursued and achieved breakthroughs in medicine for more than three decades, with the goal of creating a healthier world for all people. The company is committed to advancing innovative medicines to prevent and treat life-threatening diseases, including HIV, viral hepatitis, and cancer. Gilead operates in more than 35 countries worldwide, with headquarters in Foster City, California. Executive Director, Head of PDM Strategy – Foster City, California

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 15 + years of relevant experience, or master’s degree / PhD / MD with 12 + years of relevant experience.
• 3 + years at top-tier consulting firm or in a similar role developing manufacturing and technical development strategy in the bio-pharma industry.
• Extensive experience in the biotech or pharmaceutical industry with demonstrated cross-functional collaboration and leadership; deep knowledge about the biotech / biopharma segment.
• Strong business acumen.
• Demonstrated capability to deliver strategic analysis and optionality impacting the effectiveness of a global manufacturing and development organization.
• Demonstrated ability to lead a team of multi-disciplinary professionals in delivering strategy analysis and recommending options.
• Excellent coaching and influencing skills.
• Cross -functional and enterprise-wide relationship building skills .
• A passion for developing people and supporting a team.
• A strong business process orientation but able to deploy processes practically and with the maximum impact .
• Understanding of the complexity of multi-national supply chains and the geo political factors impacting technical development and manufacturing in the bio-pharma industry.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to lead, interact with, focus, negotiate, resolve conflict, and drive consensus among individuals from a variety of cultures and disciplines .
• Highly adept at influencing upward and downward without positional authority .
• Drives forward in face of ambiguity .
• Bias for action; ability to prioritize .
• Strong leadership, self-direction, comfort and experience tackling ambiguous and complex problems .
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to synthesize complex situations, illustrate conceptual paths, and facilitate discussions leading to resolution on key issues .

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree and 20+ years of relevant experience, or master’s degree / PhD / MD with 15+ years of relevant experience.
• 5+ years at top-tier consulting firm or in a similar role developing manufacturing and technical development strategy in the bio-pharma industry.
• Ability to multi-task and independently lead multiple projects and meet key deadlines.
• High EQ, ability to listen, and adaptability to dynamic of situation.
• Confidence to provide dissenting views when appropriate .
• Ability to work cross - functionally and understand the motivations of colleagues in other functions.
• Deep experience in designing and deploying rigorous processes, tools, templates, and governance.
• Proven ability to lead collaborative and creative strategic problem solving by breaking down issues, identifying options to address, synthesizing insights, and driving to action and resolution.

Responsibilities

• Develop, revise and maintain PDM’s network strategies for all aspects of clinical & commercial manufacturing .
• Codify existing strategies, develop strategic operating principles and formulate new network strategies depending on the business and organizational needs .
• Support the PDM Leadership Team with cross-functional strategic initiatives and decision-making
• Lead strategic a nalysis and option evaluations by leading an internal consulting team , capable of replacing the external consultants we have used for strategy analysis work previously .
• When appropriate , m anage engagements with external consulting companies with project costs of the order of $1M . This includes executing the scope definition, RFP, bid assessment, vendor selection and vendor management.
• Define and execute a PDM risk management process to fit with the Gilead enterprise requirements .
• Stand up a business intelligence / competitive intelligence function to PDM.
• Participate in e xternal benchmarking and manage the consequent data gathering and analysis exercises.
• Scan the Gilead and industry environment for relevant trends that could impact on PDM and its ability to deliver.
• Build out a sustainability strategy for PDM in alignment with Gilead ’s sustainability goal s

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: Executive
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees