Director, Compensation Program Delivery

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 founded in 1987. Together we deliver life-saving therapies to patients in need. With the commitment and drive you bring to the workplace every day, you will be part of a team that is changing the world and helping millions of people live healthier, more fulfilling lives. Our worldwide staff is a close community where you can see the tangible results of your contributions, where every individual matters, and everyone has a chance to enhance their skills through ongoing development. Our scientific focus has resulted in marketed products that are benefiting millions of people, a pipeline of late-stage drug candidates, and unmatched patient access programs to ensure medications are available to those who could otherwise not afford them. By joining Gilead, you will further our mission to address unmet medical needs and improve life by advancing the care of patients with life-threatening diseases.

Director, Compensation Program Delivery

The Opportunity:

Reporting to the Vice President Global Total Rewards (TR), the Director Comp Program Delivery will carve the path for TR in our evolution to a leading-edge, scalable, flexible, and efficient function. In this role, you will lead a team responsible for designing, administering, and delivering our compensation programs globally. You will play a key role in centralizing, optimizing, digitizing, and governing processes to ensure simplicity, consistency, and operational excellence while providing critical insights to support program evolution.

The Role:

Located in Foster City, responsibilities for the Director, Compensation Operations include, but are not limited to:

Process Design and Optimization:

• Lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of compensation processes to ensure efficient program delivery.
• Identify and implement opportunities to streamline and optimize compensation workflows and processes, leveraging technology and best practices.
• Break down existing processes and re-engineer them to create streamlined, scalable, and global solutions with defined SLAs and process documentation.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to optimize and digitize processes, ensuring they are efficient, user-friendly, and aligned with organizational goals.
• Maintain a strong focus on the experience of program users, ensuring processes are intuitive, accessible, and supportive of employee needs.
• Establish metrics and reporting mechanisms to monitor process and program efficiency and impact.
• Define and implement technology solutions for various compensation programs such as compensation modelers (cash and equity), annual market pricing review, compensation analytics and other programs, in partnership with the HR Technology and People Analytics team.

Operational Excellence:

• Establish and maintain protocols, standards, and SLAs for compensation program administration.
• Monitor performance and compliance to ensure programs run consistently and accurately across regions.
• Develop training materials and resources to equip internal teams with the knowledge needed for successful program execution.
• Define roles and responsibilities of team to provide technical and analytical support to core compensation programs, including end-to-end global roll out and communications support.

Team Leadership and Development:

• Design and architect a centralized compensation operations function which will enable the efficient delivery of co