Director , IT Strategy and Centers of Excellence

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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
 

The Director IT Strategy and Centers of Excellence will report directly to the VP and Head of IT Business Systems and be responsible for shaping and executing the overall IT strategy to support our business goals, leading a team of individuals including budget and financial management, overseeing cross-IT centers of excellence including process excellence including mining, maintenance, automation and continuous improvement, leading Agile transformations, enhancing strategic communications and IT branding.

• Core Competency – Demonstrated accountability and ownership, thrive in ambiguity, manage without domain expertise, self-starter, excellent stakeholder/people management, negotiation and influencing skills across global enterprise cultures, demographics and geographies

• Thought Leadership – Demonstrate visionary thought leadership across core business/IT subject areas, functions and future facing technologies within Pharma industry. Must demonstrate tangible results in end-to-end lifecycle management of strategic dimensions and initiatives within IT from idea to execution within global enterprises.

• Roadmap Planning/Execution – Recommend, obtain approval, establish and execute strategic/tactical 1-3-5 yr roadmaps across IT strategic dimensions of cultural transformations, organization delivery models, talent of the future, ways of working, governance and guardrails, architecture and technology. Must be able to work across both strategic and operational levels within organizations

• Trend Analysis, Benchmarking and Innovation Opportunities – Demonstrate cross industry knowledge of implementable use cases and opportunities across functions, trends and benchmarks (metrics/cost) to advance competitive advantage

• Domain Expertise – Has domain expertise within one or more core IT functions and business landscape like Commercial, R&D, PDM, Medical/ERP, G&A, Security, Data, Architecture etc. Also is passionate, knowledge about current/future technologies and related use cases and their influence on business value propositions for large enterprises

• Organization Effectiveness – Demonstrate expert level knowledge, experience and proven navigational and change management skills across centralized/decentralized/global/regional/global-local constructs and operating models within enterprise organizations going through transformations across multiple disciplines/ domains

• Portfolio Management - Demonstrated experience in large enterprise scale portfolio management of large multi-phase strategic and operational projects and initiatives

• Workforce of the Future – Demonstrated experience in designing for workforce of the future i