Executive Director, Global Head of Medical Affairs Technology

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
 

Executive Director, Global Head of Medical Affairs Technology

Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a research-based biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes innovative medicines in areas of unmet medical need. We strive to transform and simplify care for people with life-threatening illnesses around the world. Gilead's portfolio of products and pipeline of investigational drugs includes treatments for HIV/AIDS, COVID, HBV, HCV, HDV, Oncology and Cell Therapy as well as Inflammatory Diseases co. Gilead is a patient centric, science focused company.

Reporting to the Vice President, Global Medical Strategy and Operations, this individual is responsible for driving global delivery of technology tools to enable accomplishment of the Gilead Medical Affairs strategic goals including evidence generation, strategic content management, customer engagement and relationship management, insights generation and technological innovation.  This individual leads a global team and partners with stakeholders in Medical Affairs, Development, Commercial and IT organizations to develop and drive solution implementation at scale while advising stakeholders on how to tap into emerging and evolving technologies to enable business capabilities. Key to the success of this role is aligning tools to performance expectations and continuously adapting systems to the evolving technology landscape and stakeholder demands, while working within a matrix environment to cultivate tool advocacy with senior leadership.

This is a site based role at our global headquarters in Foster City, CA or at our Parsippany, NJ campus.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Develop and implement the Gilead Medical Affairs Technology/Digital Roadmap, in collaboration with the Global Head of Insights, Digital, Data & Analytics, Global and Affiliate Medical Affairs leaders, IT, Legal, Compliance, and Medical Governance and Commercial colleagues, to enable achievement of Medical Affairs strategic goals.
• Serve as technology product expert, balancing the needs of the platform (performance, scalability, cost, data integrity) with the requests of the business (new functionality, speed to market, integrations) during roadmap planning and delivery, while architecting and designing innovative solutions that allow for a best in industry Medical Affairs organization.
• Provide comprehensive portfolio management and support services across platforms, ensuring project/system leads deliver new solutions that are timely, within budget, and fully aligned with business needs. Responsible for actively providing status updates across the portfolio to multiple stakeholders.
• Leverage technology internally to scale the Medical Affairs Technology team applying automation, asynchronous processes, and AI to team management, operational support, testing, and technical support.
• Drive Medical Affairs technology tool maturation by refining processes, delivery templates, tools, and partnerships with key software vendors.
• Conduct MA technology benchmarking and participate in executive best practice sharing forums to assess current platforms and tools against industry best practices and emerging innovations, providing recommendations for improvement and future investment.
• Cultivate relationships with external experts to advise on Medical Affairs technology infrastructure innovation.
• Provide technology sustainment and support, including oversight of user acceptance testing (UAT), support processes including knowledge hub, and release and system lifecycle management to ensure long-term platform reliability and