Senior Director, Product Management Team Lead (Early Phase) – Foster City

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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. 

 
Senior Director, Product Management Team Lead (Early Phase)

Location: Foster City 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 

Reporting to the Executive Director of Product & Project Management and operating within the broader Pharmaceutical Development and Manufacturing (PDM) organization, the Senior Director, Product Management Team Lead will lead a team of product and project management professionals. This team partners closely with PDM Product Strategy Team Leads to support a diverse portfolio of small molecule and biologics drug candidates across development and commercial stages. 

There will be three Senior Directors serving as Product Management Team Leads, each bringing deep expertise in a specific phase of the biopharma lifecycle: early development, late-phase and commercialization, and commercial. 

The Senior Director, Product Management Team Lead (Early Phase) will have experience serving as project manager for early phase biopharma molecules and will serve as a subject matter expert on products in this phase for PMs across the Product & Project Management group. The PMs reporting to this role will not be specialized by molecule phase and will stay with a program across all lifecycle phases, relying on the expertise of the respective Team Leads as programs progress from early phase to late phase / commercialization to commercial. 

In addition to product-related responsibilities, the Director-level PM reporting to this role will also lead non-product strategic initiatives, contributing to broader organizational priorities. 

FOCUS AREAS 

• Lead team of PMs to support our PDM Product Strategy Leads and Product Teams. This includes identifying and sharing best practices across the Product Strategy Teams 

• Serve as SME on early phase PM, drawing upon deep knowledge of early phase product milestones 

• Use and provide feedback on a set of templated tools and processes for the PDM Team System, e.g. tools for capturing a product’s strategy on a single page 

• Work in partnership with the PDM Product Strategy Leads