Senior Director, PDM Operations Management - 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, PDM Operations Management 

Location: Foster City 

Reporting to the Vice President, Pharmaceutical Development and Manufacturing (PDM) Strategy & Operations, and part of the larger PDM organization, the Senior Director, PDM Operations Management will support the success of PDM by leading a team focused on the cross-functional non-GMP programs and systems that have an outsize impact on how PDM works. This scope for PDM Operations includes leading the teams / individual contributors focused on: 

• Non-GMP information infrastructure (e.g. SharePoint) 

• Experience of working in PDM, e.g. onboarding new staff to PDM, supporting the internship program and managing the PDM rotation program 

• Planisware (G.Plan) adoption and iteration for enterprise timeline management as well as resource forecasting 

• Product portfolio reporting and analytics 

Success in this role depends on bringing together these four distinct capabilities into a seamless team that supports critical PDM operations. 

FOCUS AREAS 

• Lead team responsible for organizing non-GMP information across PDM (e.g. SharePoint) 

• Manage individual contributor responsible for onboarding to PDM, managing the PDM intern program as well as the PDM rotational program 

• Manage individual contributor responsible for Planisware adoption and iteration 

• Manage individual contributor responsible for product portfolio reporting and analytics  

• Set strategy for PDM Operations team and lead the group in a manner that delivers more than the sum of its parts 

• Lead interface with leaders of across PDM as a valuable thought partner to drive meaningful improvements to the experience of working in PDM  

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