Senior Director, Program Change Lead
About The Position
Gilead is hiring a Senior Director, Program Change Lead to lead change and transformation across high-priority U.S. Commercial initiatives. The role helps the organization adopt and sustain new capabilities, operating models, processes, and ways of working, and ensures transformation efforts translate into sustained business outcomes. The position partners with Business Units, functions, initiative leaders, and senior leaders to assess organizational impacts, readiness, and adoption needs; develop practical change strategies; and identify barriers and interventions. It also strengthens U.S. Commercial change execution by establishing methods, capabilities, tools, and measurement practices that complement enterprise approaches and address U.S. business needs. The role reports to the Executive Director, Business Enablement, Strategy & Transformation. It is based in Foster City, California, and requires onsite presence. Relocation assistance is available. The position includes people-leader accountabilities for inclusion, talent development, and empowering teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and 14 or more years of relevant experience; or a master’s degree/MBA and 12 or more years of relevant experience; or a PhD and 12 or more years of relevant experience.
- Deep experience in enterprise transformation, organizational change, business transformation, or strategic program leadership.
- Ability to assess organizational readiness, anticipate adoption barriers, and design interventions that support sustained changes in behaviors and ways of working.
- Experience managing the cumulative impact and interdependencies of multiple simultaneous organizational changes.
- Ability to establish practical change methodologies, governance, tools, and measurement approaches without creating unnecessary process.
- Ability to work effectively across U.S., Global, and Corporate teams, translating enterprise approaches to business-specific needs while maintaining alignment.
- Excellent executive communication skills, including synthesizing complex organizational issues into clear recommendations and decisions.
- Experience partnering with senior leaders and influencing outcomes across functions and organizational levels without direct authority.
- Ability to work onsite in Foster City, California.
Nice To Haves
- Significant experience within the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, or a similarly complex industry.
- Demonstrated experience leading large-scale organizational change or transformation across complex, cross-functional environments.
Responsibilities
- Lead change and transformation strategies for high-priority U.S. Commercial initiatives to help embed and sustain new capabilities, operating models, processes, and ways of working.
- Partner with initiative and business leaders to assess organizational impact, readiness, and adoption needs, and translate findings into practical change strategies and interventions.
- Advise senior leaders, anticipate barriers, and identify actions needed to implement change and realize intended business value.
- Define and monitor measures of readiness, adoption, and sustainability, using insights to identify where leadership attention or intervention is needed.
- Build alignment across Business Units and functions while navigating competing priorities and differing levels of readiness.
- Translate broader enterprise transformation efforts into specific implications, needs, and actions for the U.S. Commercial business.
- Partner with Corporate and Global functions, including OE&TDI, to align U.S. Commercial change efforts with enterprise strategies and approaches while representing U.S. business needs.
- Identify dependencies, risks, and cumulative organizational impacts across simultaneous initiatives so changes are coordinated.
- Establish practical change approaches, methods, tools, and measurement practices that complement enterprise approaches and adapt to U.S. Commercial needs.
- Equip leaders and teams to lead through change and build organizational ownership of change over time.
- Determine where specialist change support will have the greatest impact and focus resources on initiatives and populations with the greatest need.
- Create an inclusive team environment and embed the value of diversity in team management.
- Develop talent by understanding employee skills, experience, aspirations, and potential, and coaching employees on performance and growth.
- Empower teams by aligning goals and purpose with organizational objectives and holding team members accountable.
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
- Relocation assistance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
