Associate Director, Congress Orchestration - Global Congress Center of Excellence

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Job Description
 

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.

As Associate Director, Congress Orchestration, you’ll manage the execution of Gilead’s Congress strategy and operations; establishing and leading Core Congress Committee’s to ensure a standardized and consistent congress planning process. You’ll report to the Global Congress Center of Excellence, as part of the Global Commercial Operations (GCO) organization.

This position is located in Foster City, CA or Parsippany, NJ 

Key Responsibilities:

In this role, you’ll be responsible for leading Tier 1 Congresses, as well as ex-US Global Tier 2 Congresses: working cross functionally and with various agency partners on all aspects of congress operations:

 Job Summary:

• Organize and chair Core Congress Committee’s and sub-teams; ensuring clear objectives are set and are aligned with overarching Therapeutic Area strategy and vision
• Craft overarching Congress approach recommendation leveraging objectives and congress offerings; ensuring an appropriate congress and investment strategy based on needs
• Drive consistency of delivery of all congress activity
• Create clear and consistent communication plan to ensure all stakeholders are properly informed of happenings; inclusive of Leadership updates, Pre-cons/Post-cons, All Hands Meetings, affiliates, etc.
• Professional Association relations: function as contact for Association related to Congress activity (also working cross-functionally with extended team on overarching Gilead relationship with Association)
• Ensure metrics are established and measured upon to aid in future decision making; elevating the Global CoE to be “best in class” and to ensure a world-leading congress experience for our customers
• Lead a team of congress planners who would support Congress activity; working closely with cross-functional and agency partners​ to allow for a comprehensive and consistent Congress planning experience including on-site management
• Manage exhibit house on booth creation; working with cross-functional teams to ensure messaging/content is aligned with objectives/congress strategy; content development to reside with asset owners
• Partner closely on Key Opinion Leader (KOL) engagement process; ensuring consistent and standardized