OE Lead – Business Transformation

Gilead Sciences•Foster City, CA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

At Gilead, the OE Lead – Business Transformation focuses on enabling work and workforce transformation by embedding directly into high-impact, business-led initiatives. Reporting to the Global Head of Organizational Effectiveness, this role applies and evolves Organizational Effectiveness (OE) approaches in real time, using active AI Use Cases to inform how organizations, roles, and ways of working adapt as new capabilities are identified and introduced. This position operates at the intersection of technology, business, and people, embedding within priority AI use cases to drive organizational transformation, adoption, and workforce readiness. The OE Lead will partner with AI Product Owners, the AI CoE, business leaders, and HRBPs to ensure operating model, workforce, and change implications are addressed early and integrated into delivery to unlock measurable business value. As part of the broader OE team, this role contributes to helping the organization anticipate evolving roles, skills, and ways of working, and supports the development of repeatable, scalable approaches that enable learning, reuse, and consistent execution across AI-enabled and future enterprise ways of working. While currently focused on AI transformation, this role is designed to flex over time to support other critical enterprise transformation priorities if business needs evolve.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Organizational Development, Business Administration, HR or related field preferred, with 12+ years of experience in OE, OD, Management Consulting, Workforce Transformation, HR, or Business Strategy or master's degree in the above with 10+ years of relevant experience.
Proven experience leading complex transformation initiatives in a global organization, including organizational change, workforce readiness, and organization design / operating model evolution.
Strong expertise in change management, including defining change strategies, diagnosing adoption risks, and enabling sustained behavior change.
Demonstrated ability to partner with senior leaders and cross-functional teams, with strong facilitation, influencing, and communication skills.
Experience collaborating with HR Business Partners and HR COEs (e.g., Org Design, Talent, Total Rewards, Learning) to address organizational and workforce implications.
Strong analytical and systems-thinking capability, including leveraging qualitative and quantitative data to generate insights, identify patterns across initiatives, and inform decisions.
Ability to prioritize competing demands, resolve complex issues, and operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.
Solid understanding of strategic and operational drivers of business performance, with the ability to translate strategy into practical organizational and change implications.
Proven ability to lead through influence rather than authority, supported by strong analytical and systems-thinking skills.
Demonstrate Gilead’s core values.
Influence - the ability to collaborate with colleagues and ensure they understand the vision, mission, and execution to support the business objective.
Work well with peers and stakeholders and ability to influence without direct authority.
Strong teamwork and facilitation – effective at being a member of teams.
Listen actively and respond constructively to the needs and views of others.
Delivery – gets the job done, in accordance with Gilead core values.
Understands and exhibits a sense of urgency on critical time-dependent issues.
Strong resilience to navigate, lead and coach during change and ambiguity.
Demonstrates the ability to prioritize and is persistent to achieve the business objectives.
Proactive, Solution Oriented, Positive attitude and a customer-centric approach.
Create Inclusion - knowing the business value of diverse teams, modeling inclusion, and embedding the value of diversity in the way they manage their teams.
Develop Talent - understand the skills, experience, aspirations and potential of their employees and coach them on current performance and future potential. They ensure employees are receiving the feedback and insight needed to grow, develop and realize their purpose.
Empower Teams - connect the team to the organization by aligning goals, purpose, and organizational objectives, and holding them to account. They provide the support needed to remove barriers and connect their team to the broader ecosystem.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting digital or AI transformation initiatives
Prosci certification

Responsibilities

Embed within select enterprise priority AI use cases from inception through scaling, partnering with AI Product Owners, the AI CoE, HRBPs, HR COEs, and business leaders.
Lead change management and workforce readiness efforts for assigned use cases, supporting adoption, role clarity, leadership alignment, and sustained behavior change.
Ensure organizational, workforce, operating model, and adoption considerations are integrated into solution design and delivery, not treated as downstream activities.
Partner with business leaders, process owners, the AI CoE, and HR partners (HRBPs, Org Design, Total Rewards, Talent, etc.) to identify and address organizational implications of AI-enabled workflows.
Support organization design and operating model considerations, including impacts to roles, decision rights, ways of working, and collaboration models, in partnership with Use Case teams, HRBPs, relevant HR COEs.
Enable workforce readiness and role evolution required to operationalize AI capabilities, without owning end-to-end process redesign.
Collaborate with OE peers to design and refine repeatable frameworks, criteria, and playbooks that guide when and how OE support is embedded in AI initiatives.
Apply scalable methods to assess organizational readiness, workforce implications, and transformation requirements across use cases.
Contribute to the scaling architecture (standards, tools, governance, and communities of practice) that enables consistent execution across priority initiatives.
Promote consistency, quality, and enterprise alignment across supported use cases.
Serve as a connector between local use case teams and central OE and HR partners, translating insights into coordinated action on change, workforce, and operating model implications.
Share insights and lessons learned that accelerate enterprise learning, reuse, and continuous improvement of OE and change practices.