Senior Director, Business Strategy and Operations

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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.

Every member of Gilead's team plays a critical role in the discovery and development of life-changing scientific innovations. Our employees are our greatest asset as we work to achieve our bold ambitions, and we're looking for the next wave of passionate and ambitious people ready to make a direct impact.

We believe every employee deserves a great leader. People Leaders are the cornerstone to the employee experience at Gilead and Kite. As a people leader now or in the future, you are the key driver in evolving our culture and creating an environment where every employee feels included, developed and empowered to fulfil their aspirations. Join Gilead and help create possible, together.

Job Description

Gilead's mission is to discover, develop, and deliver therapies that will improve the lives of patients with life-threatening illnesses worldwide. As a Senior Director, Business Strategy and Operations (Chief of Staff), Global Commercialization Strategy & Operations (GCSO), you will be reporting to the Senior Vice President, GCSO and will serve as a key business partner to the GCSO leadership team. You will be immersed in strategic and operational elements of the business. This role acts as a 'linking pin' between multiple functions, leads and drives tactical and strategic projects, provides analytical and operational insights, and ensures coordinated communications across functions in alignment with the unit's strategic priorities and direction.

The successful candidate will be a self-starting project manager extraordinaire with a strong track record of strategic and operational work experience across various settings and topics in the pharmaceutical or biopharmaceutical industry. Candidates must have a track record of driving project success without direct authority, effectively network across the organization, and communicate across all levels in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Support and be part of the Leadership Team helping to organize and facilitate Leadership team meetings, and participate in decision making and strategy development, help the leader and team be as successful as they can be.
• Business Strategy: a strategic advisor and confidant; a highly trusted person with whom to discuss and pressure‐test ideas. (A thought partner not necessarily responsible for business strategy, but a key contributor who facilitates strategic projects vs business strategy)
• Special Projects: provide an extra set of hands to help with or lead strategic priorities as defined by the leadership team.
• Business Operations: an organizer to help manage the GSCO LT – including curating agenda, writing minutes, and supporting in setting priorities, projects, decisions, and actions and ensuring follow up. Proactively identify opportunities for organizational impact.
• Effectively network across the organization, build collaborative relationships, and communicate with senior leaders to connect projects and workstreams that would otherwise remain siloed. This is especially important with the key partners of GCSO including the R&D organizations, US commercial and G8 markets.
• Serve as a key business partner and conduit to the leader ensuring that work within the team flows smoothly by driving operational efficiency and effectiveness, strategic alignment and integration of activities.
• Project management: PM support to drive efficiency improvements, business performance, and to execute on the strategic priorities of the SVP and the GCSO LT.
• Uncover areas within the business to drive performance or efficiency improvements and support project management of these initiatives aligned with GCSO and broader commercial organization goals.
• Acts as an amplifier for the SVP GCSO; will prepare and deliver presentations, manage existing communications strategies, and innovate new ones.

CAPABILITIES

• Super Organizer — able to stay personally organized while managing the priorities of the executive. Able to help bring order and effectively manage complex and ambiguous projects
• Collaborative, empathetic —assists in building the networked organization— bringing down silos so teams communicate better while maintaining a constant eye on how the teams feel/team morale.
• Sense of Urgency —self-starter acts with an entrepreneurial spirit, identifying opportunities and taking action on them
• High EQ — displays humility and adopts a mature approach to feedback and open to learning from any member of the team and other key stakeholders.
• Strategic Thinker —able to see the big picture of things. A strategic, enterprise mindset helps align detailed work to the overall strategy, as well as evaluate what is urgent versus important.
• Strong accountability — getting things done and not dropping the ball. The SVP and the leadership team need to know that responsibilities and tasks that fall to the Chief of Staff are guaranteed to get done proactively.
• Trusted Operator — able to work with and manage the dissemination of sensitive and confidential information with the utmost discretion.
• Facilitator —a day-to-day part of the role requires managing conversations, synthesizing multiple points of view, and aligning on direction, all in an impartial and professional way.
• Strong Communication - has effective communication skills across different mediums, is able to influence and connect with key stakeholders and use those communication skills to move work forward.

COMPETENCIES

• Enterprise and Functional Mindset : Aligns priorities and projects to the broader organizational vision and strategy. Uses peripheral vision instead of focusing only on what is in front of them.
• Adaptability: Adopts a positive approach when faced with change, complexity and uncertainty and able to adjusts thinking and approach based on new information or events.
• Strategic Planning: Formulates clear, practical approaches to help meet strategic objectives; anticipates future issues and adapts plans accordingly
• Systemic Thinking: Recognizes interdependencies of different elements of a process and identifies opportunities to make improvements to processes and systems
• Political Savvy : Understands internally sensitive issues and navigating an organizational matrix to get things done; identifies and successfully influences key decision makers
• Thought Partner: Asks powerful questions and evaluates new ideas thoroughly. Shares ideas and experiences to help navigate complex challenges.
• Business Acumen: Understands risks/opportunities and uses analytical skills to interpret, translate and simplify complexity to others. Provides analyses, explores a range of solutions and makes recommendations to drive business growth.

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree and Fourteen Years' Experience

OR

Masters' Degree and Twelve Years' Experience

OR

PhD and Twelve Years' Experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree with 12+ years of growing responsibility in the biopharmaceutical industry with broad exposure to multiple functions
• MBA or higher degree preferred.
• Relevant professional experience in the Pharmaceuticals/Biotechnology industry, ideally in multiple parts of the value chain (e.g. Global strategy, Commercial, Research and Development, project management).
• Highly resourceful and strategic thinker with strong emotional intelligence, operational rigor, and project management capabilities
• Demonstrated consistent cross-functional collaborator and business partner, directly contributing to teams to achieve overall objectives
• Strong communication skills across functions and leadership teams; comfort in business and technical discussions. Able to voice opinion diplomatically and to influence without direct authority
• Self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative, and innovative high-growth environment
• Experience driving large initiatives from framing the problem, conducting research/analysis to building the business and operational plans through to driving execution to success is required
• Depth of understanding of the function's financials; in partnership with finance partners, identifying initiatives to support commercial opportunities for growth
• Strong enterprise thinking and approach
• High proficiency with Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel
• Willingness to travel as needed within and outside the US (up to 20%)

People Leader Accountabilities

• Create Inclusion - knowing the business value of diverse teams, modelling inclusion and embedding the value of diversity in the way they manage their teams.
• Develop Talent - understand the skills, experience, aspirations and potential of their employees and coach them on current performance and future potential. They ensure employees are receiving the feedback and insight needed to grow, develop and realize their purpose.
• Empower Teams - connect the team to the organization by aligning goals, purpose, organizational objectives and holding to account. They provide the support needed to remove barriers and connect their team to the broader ecosystem.

The salary range for this position is: $237, $307, Gilead considers a variety of factors when determining base compensation, including experience, qualifications, and geographic location. These considerations mean actual compensation will vary. This position may also be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus, discretionary stock-based long-term incentives (eligibility may vary based on role), paid time off, and a benefits package. Benefits include company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans*.

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• Eligible employees may participate in benefit plans, subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans.

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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.