Associate Director, Project Management

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Job Description
 

Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company that has pursued and achieved breakthroughs in medicine for more than three decades, with the goal of creating a healthier world for all people. The company is committed to advancing innovative medicines to prevent and treat life-threatening diseases, including HIV, viral hepatitis, and cancer. Gilead operates in more than 35 countries worldwide, with headquarters in Foster City, California.

Job Overview

As the Associate Director, Project Management, you will be assigned projects of increasing complexity. You will manage the full Project Management lifecycle for assigned projects and act as a functional area expert. Where applicable, you will lead and/or support development and implementation of Project Lifecycle Plans. You will develop and manage project plans and manage project timelines, communications, meetings, and other interactions to ensure project deliverables are met on-time, and to the quality expected, working with no supervision. You will represent the Project Team to various partners and stakeholders. You will typically manage multiple projects simultaneously. You will also contribute to short- and long-range RPM strategies, plans and infrastructure development. You will also lead RPM process improvement activities and lead complex Regulatory initiatives and/or complex Development initiatives. This will be an onsite role and can be located in Foster City, CA or Parsippany, NJ.

Essential Duties and Job Functions:

• Directs moderately complex department/cross-functional specific programs and/or initiatives.
• Directs moderately complex project/initiative communications and ensures that all stakeholders are fully informed and knowledgeable of project activities and their status.
• Fosters effective and productive communication among various Regulatory Affairs groups including Regional Regulatory Leads, Regulatory CMC, Labeling, Advertising and Promotion, Regulatory Operations, Medical Writing, and representatives from other functional areas, as appropriate, via proactive networking and facilitation of the Regulatory Project Team.
• Provides Regulatory Project Management support for programs/projects/initiatives; attends sub-team meetings; organizes ad hoc working groups as needed.
• Provides leadership to the team and functional areas to anticipate and identify complex project issues which pose a challenge to achieving strategic goals; proposes and implements plans to resolve such issues and execute corrective actions.
• Identifies and manages critical path activities and resources.
• Manages 3 – 6 Regulatory Projects, included but not limited to NDAs, MAAs, BLAs, sND