Director of Manufacturing Excellence and Strategy

3 weeks ago


Foster City, California, United States Gilead Sciences Full time

Job Description:

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead the development, rollout, and sustainment of the annual strategic planning process across Manufacturing sites and functions.
  • Partner with and engage Manufacturing Strategy teams in strategy development.
  • Ensure appropriate cascade of communication across the organization to ensure strategies are well-understood and staff connect the strategy with their work.
  • Manage ongoing sustainment and track metrics that demonstrate progress towards the overall vision.
  • Lead and support projects to improve support of our commercial Products, advancement of our Pipeline, and growth of our People.
  • Prioritize projects aligned with our strategy to have the greatest impact, and ensure projects deliver intended benefits that move the needle.
  • Sustain and continuously improve annual strategic planning processes across Manufacturing Operations.

Focus Areas:

  • Lead activities to advance One Manufacturing Strategy.
  • Partner closely with all stakeholders to establish standard framework for the strategy cascade and annual strategic planning for all Manufacturing sites and global functions.
  • Ensure alignment of strategic focus, goals, and KPIs up and down the organization while empowering site and functions to own work in their areas.
  • Partner with functions, Finance, and HR to ensure alignment between functional strategic planning, budgets, and annual people processes.
  • Continuously improve ways of working based on changing business needs.

Manufacturing Strategy & Excellence operations and activities:

  • Participate in defining and building out ways of working together with the rest of the team.
  • Engage in operations or operational excellence activities consistent with business need.
  • Partner closely with the Senior Director to build out operations with focus on development and mentorship of junior staff.

Qualifications:

  • Primary degree in Business, Science or Engineering discipline with a minimum of 12 years professional experience or a Master's degree and a minimum of 10 years experience.
  • Demonstrated expertise developing, implementing, and executing strategic plans and processes within a Manufacturing organization.
  • Demonstrates all of Gilead's core values, with a particular emphasis on Inclusion and Teamwork.
  • Demonstrates all of Gilead's leadership accountabilities, with a particular emphasis Creating Inclusion.
  • Able to navigate and lead change in a highly matrixed environment.
  • Able to understand complex situations and navigate to desired results.
  • Effective communication and influence skills, both written and verbal. Able to tailor messages to different audiences up and down the organization.

Additional Information:

The salary range for this position is: $221,170.00 - $286,220.00. 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.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

Gilead Sciences Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions regarding recruitment and selection will be made without discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, genetic information or characteristic, gender identity and expression, veteran status, or other non-job related characteristics or other prohibited grounds specified in applicable federal, state and local laws.



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