Senior Manager, Healthcare Compliance Risk

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
 

Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a research-based biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes innovative medicines in areas of unmet medical need. With each new discovery and investigational drug candidate, we seek to improve the care of patients living with life-threatening diseases around the world. Gilead’s therapeutic areas of focus include HIV/AIDS, liver diseases, cancer and inflammation, and serious respiratory and cardiovascular conditions.

We are seeking a Senior Manager to assist in enhancing and operating Gilead’s healthcare compliance monitoring, risk assessment, and third-party due diligence programs. The location of this role will be based out of Foster City, California or Parsippany, New Jersey.

Essential Duties and Job Functions

This individual will support the monitoring, risk assessment, and third-party due diligence teams with activities in compliance with relevant laws, regulations, and policies. These activities will include leveraging data analytics, risk-based sampling, leading risk assessment trainings and discussions, supporting potential investigations and complaints, and live observation at various activities and events to identify potential areas of focus.

The individual will work closely with colleagues across different functions, including key partners such as IT, Commercial, Development, Medical Affairs, Public Affairs, Government Affairs, Finance and Clinical, among others, in order to leverage information from relevant systems for identification and address of potential compliance-related issues. 

A key goal of this position is to help drive innovation and consistency in our approach to compliance-related monitoring, risk assessment, and due diligence to ensure both Gilead and industry best practices are shared and adopted across functions.

Key responsibilities also include the following:

• Support the team to develop and align on a multi-faceted monitoring and risk assessment strategy.  

• Drive the timely development and propagation of ongoing enhancements to the company’s healthcare compliance monitoring and risk assessment program.

• Collaborate with the team to ensure timely and appropriate action is taken to address potential risks and identified issues. 

• Partner with various business functions to explore ways in which monitoring and risk assessment related data may be used to support business strategy and objectives in a compliant manner.

• Support various business functions in designing business-led monitoring approaches of both higher risk activities and third parties.

• Responsible for facilitating requests for diligence on new and existing vendors, including communicating with internal colleagues and third parties to gather all required information to complete diligence.

• Conducting review of due diligence questionnaires and external checks to identify potential red flags or areas for further inquiry.

• Serving as a resource and point-of-contact for questions from internal colleagues and third-party representatives going through due diligence.

• Compiling and analyzing reports and metrics and presenting results to colleagues, so that we can continually assess and adjust our risk-based program.

• Foster an energizing work environment where employees have impact on our patient-centric mission and can grow their careers.

Knowledge, Experience and Skills

Gilead is looking for an experienced risk management professional from the biotech and/or pharmaceutical industry.  Ideally the successful candidate will