Director, Therapeutic Area Strategy - Virology, Government Affairs

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Job Description
 

Gilead Sciences is a biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, and commercializes innovative therapeutics in areas of unmet medical need. The company's mission is to advance the care of patients suffering from life-threatening diseases worldwide. Headquartered in Foster City, California, Gilead has operations in North, South and Central America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. Gilead makes it a priority to increase access to its medicines for people who can benefit from them, regardless of where they live or their economic status. 

Director, Therapeutic Area Strategy - Virology, Government Affairs

This newly created position will support the development, implementation and management of projects in support of our growing virology portfolio within Government Affairs (GA). GA is responsible for establishing comprehensive strategies that aim to shape public policy, both legislative and regulatory, using all relevant tools, including advocacy, third-party and think tank engagement, public policy and messaging development. The Director, Therapeutic Area Strategy - Virology will support the development and implementation of comprehensive government affairs strategies, and ensure strategies are driven throughout all parts of the GA organization. The Director, Therapeutic Area Strategy - Virology will be responsible for connecting internal and external work and projects of varying scope, size and complexity and spanning multiple partners. This position will require strong leadership, partnership and teamwork and will represent GA on many cross-functional teams. This role will predominantly support the US, with some ex-US support.

Core Job Responsibilities

As a key member of the GA virology strategy team, the Director will:

• Report to ED of Virology Strategy and will be a member of the virology team, supporting GA virology product strategy development and implementation. This role will help ensure alignment with corporate US and global policy positions and commercial priorities. This person will manage the annual strategic planning process, resulting in comprehensive government affairs strategies that shape the public policy environment for existing and pipeline products in virology, namely HIV.
• Understand brand and business priorities in virology, communicate priorities to partners across GA team and ensure GA strategies are aligned with business priorities.
• Demonstrate thought leadership with Commercial and other corporate functions to ensure pipeline and launch plans sufficiently account for challenges and opportunities in the external policy environment.
• Participate on cross-functional virology teams, representing GA insi