Exec Director, Program Strategy Leader

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.
 

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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.

Executive Director, PDM Product Strategy Leader

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Reporting to the VP of PDM Product Strategy and part of the broader Pharmaceutical Development and Manufacturing (PDM) organization, this role leads strategic cross-functional teams responsible for all technical and CMC aspects of the assigned products, from entry into the technical development portfolio all the way through to the end of the product life-cycle. The PDM Product Strategy Leaders will be a team of people from diverse technical or business backgrounds.  For some products, these leaders may be performing the role on a part-time basis, but this role is full-time and will be managing the most complex products or a portfolio of products depending on the life-cycle related workload.

FOCUS AREAS

The successful candidate will:

• As the PDM representative on the Gilead Program Strategy Team, translate business strategy and PST vision into the PDM plan for execution, bring technical issues to the team and influence decision making and strategy.  Proactively raise issues and options to the strategy teams and ensure consistent application of enterprise-wide prioritization principles. Ensure that technical perspectives and concerns are reflected in the strategic plans for the assigned products.
• Direct Process Development and Analytical Development teams to ensure effective and timely progression of pipeline projects and CMC life-cycle planning. Develop and own the product technical plan including timelines, multi-year budgets and critical deliverables, and influence PDM functional leaders, to ensure PDM meets the enterprise goals for the product.
• Develop and ensure delivery of the process and analytical development activity in alignment with products’ core strategy and milestones from the Technical Development Teams.
• Ensure end-to-end design, execution and risk mitigation activities across Process, Formulation and Analytical work packages from FIH through commercialization.
• Identify process, analytical development, and control system risks within a product and across products – then develop mitigation plans and enable effective and timely decisions through collaboration with Technical Development Teams and PDM partners.
• Prepare annual revisions to the technical strategic plans for the products.
• Take relevant decisions to direct the product team or, for decisions outside the teams’ scope, escalate and steer through the appropriate PDM governance mechanisms.
• Accountable for clear and timely communication to senior leadership on product activities throughout the enterprise against deliverables, timelines, and resources.
• Drive decisions from a portfolio perspective to make the best use of resources and drive the highest value.
• Translate external insights, including competitive and commercial trends, into PDM objectives that optimize the robustness of our products.
• Support other PDM Product Strategy Leaders in building a peer-group community with a range of technical backgrounds and experience through ongoing strategic coaching and skill development.
• Coach part time PDM Product Strategy Leaders to learn and s