Associate Director- Commercial Project Management, Planning and Operations

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Job Description
 

Gilead's mission is to discover, develop, and deliver therapies that will improve the lives of patients with life-threatening illnesses worldwide. As the Associate Director, Project Management position, you will report to the Head of Global Commercial Project Management (GCPM) and will support Gilead’s mature product programs within the Established Products (EP) area, managing cross-functional project teams, in support of business-critical projects in the Gilead portfolio, across multiple therapeutic areas, including HIV, HCV and antifungals, including high-profile initiatives.

The successful candidate will be dynamic, multi-faceted and an experienced project/program manager with excellent project management capabilities and track record, highly organized, with strong attention to detail. Additionally, the ideal candidate will have the proven ability to effectively manage, drive large and complex projects and workstreams; effectively network across the organization and communicate with senior leaders, all within a very dynamic, fast paced environment.

This role is a Foster City Office based position.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage cross-functional project teams and initiatives, including co-chairing timely, efficient, and action-oriented project team meetings.

• Orchestrate key processes in EP (e.g. License Withdrawal Assessment)

• Direct team operations, managing multiple touchpoints and communication channels, engaging stakeholders, keeping them abreast of project activities & status, drive towards decisions in a timely manner.

• Develop and manage project scope, deliverables, resource requirements, and identification of program/project risks.

• Maintain detailed work plans, including identification of project tasks, clear milestones, and assignments of work project responsibilities, schedules, plans, resources, and status reports.

• Coordinate project management resources support for functional areas across multiple projects, attending sub-teams and working groups where appropriate.

• Lead the team and cross-functional stakeholders in discussions to anticipate/identify project issues/risks which may be a barrier to achieving strategic goals; proposes, contribute to and implements plans to resolve such issues and execute corrective actions as appropriate.

• Partner with project lead to develop, contribute to project strategy, gain approval at governance committee review.

• Coordinate and contribute to preparation of high-quality documents for governance committee reviews, may represent EP teams and attend senior management review committees.

• Co-leading with project lead in the design, implementation, and update of life cycl