Senior Director, Global Supplier Quality

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.
 

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Job Description
 

Senior Director, Global Supplier Quality

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 hundreds of thousands of people, a pipeline of strong 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.

Working in PDM Global Quality at Gilead:

Pharmaceutical Development & Manufacturing (PDM) Global Quality delivers on Gilead’s commitment to bring life-changing therapies to patients through robust Quality processes and systems. Our approach is agile, innovative and collaborative and our teams are committed to the successful delivery of safe life-changing therapies.

Job Summary:

Gilead Sciences PDM External Quality is currently seeking a leader at the Senior Director level to lead a team of 10 – 15 Quality Professionals to define, lead and manage the Global Supplier Quality program by providing quality oversight of GMP material and commodity suppliers. 

• Being a member of the External Quality Leadership team, the successful candidate is expected to work collaboratively with internal and external networks to continually improve Gilead’s Global Supplier Quality program, from selection, onboarding, qualification, and routine quality and performance oversight of global and local GMP material and commodity suppliers.

• The successful candidate must have demonstrated leadership skills and extensive working knowledge of managing GMP material and commodity suppliers’ performance and relationships.

• The successful candidate must have exceptional skills in managing a matrix organization, consisting of Suppler Quality members from each of the internal Gilead’s sites.

• In addition, the successful candidate must have a technical understanding of different material categories supporting GMP manufacturing of different Gilead product modalities.

• It is important that the successful candidate can influence Gilead’s external network on selection of GMP material and commodity suppliers in alignment with Gilead’s standards.

• The successful candidate must be extremely familiar with applicable regulations and requirements with GMP material and commodity supplier management program and clarity of the role and responsibilities between marketing authorization holder and contract manufacturing organizations. 

• The successful candidate must possess strong communication, influencing and negotiation skills, be able to evaluate options and trade-offs and utilize available resources to achieve the most positive impact to the busin