Senior Director, Business Strategy & Operations

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Job Description
 

Reporting to the Executive Director, Business Strategy and Operations – CDS, the Senior Director will be responsible for driving and overseeing critical strategic operations, systems, processes, and cross-functional collaborations within CDS and across the broader Gilead organization. This role will work closely with senior leadership and cross-functional teams, including Development Operations, Research, Finance, Portfolio Planning & Strategy, Project Management, Clinical Operations, Clinical Data Sciences, Research (Bioinformatics and Biomarker Sciences & Diagnostics) to lead functional and enterprise-wide initiatives, goals and drive corporate objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the planning and execution of growth and operational strategies, including budget management, resource optimization, and workforce planning to align with functional and / or organizational and portfolio objectives specific to Clinical Pharmacology, but providing broader support within BS&O as needed.

• Work closely with CPPM team to help coordinate and track clinical pharmacology book of work and help address resourcing challenges and/or bottlenecks. Support the development of a centralized digital system, inclusive of clinical pharmacology that will monitor staff workloads and provide proactive resource management planning.

• Demonstrate strong leadership through active participation with Clinical Pharmacology (CP) leadership in helping to establish measurable goals and monitor performance.

• Champion change through active leadership and participation in continuous improvements aimed at improving efficiency, cycle times, and quality measures.

• Support Portfolio Committee processes, including preparing materials, tracking action items, and facilitating decision-making across key stakeholders.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams—e.g., Clinical Pharmacology Sciences, Biostatistics, Statistical Programming, Research, Data Science, and Regulatory—to align project goals, deliverables, and translational data strategies.

• Ensure and coordinate seamless bi-directional data translation from Research to/from Development by establishing robust data integration systems, processes, governance, and early-stage support mechanisms for translational data in close collaboration with Bioinformatics, Biomarkers, Clinical Pharmacology and relevant CDS sub-functional teams.

• Lead and implement processes and tools in support of biomarker plans and strategies, ensuring data generated from clinical trials drives governance (e.g., DRC, PC, JPC) decision-making processes, including tiering, funding and resource allocations.

• Support downstream bi-directional translation activities, e