Senior Director, Medical Excellence, Global Medical Engagement Lead in Uxbridge, United Kingdom

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Job Description

Senior Director, Medical Excellence, Global Medical Engagement Lead

Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a research-based biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes innovative medicines in areas of unmet medical need. We strive to transform and simplify care for people with life-threatening illnesses around the world. Gilead’s portfolio of products and pipeline of investigational drugs includes treatments for HIV/AIDS, COVID, HBV, HCV, HDV, Oncology and Cell Therapy as well as Inflammatory Diseases co. Gilead is a patient centric, science focused company.

Reporting to the Executive Director, Global Head of Medical Excellence, this individual will play a critical and exciting role in the Global Medical Affairs organization, evolving Gilead’s medical engagement approach by implementing data-driven global programs to better support evidence-based care. The successful candidate will be responsible for coordinating all aspects of key Medical Affairs enablement programs and scaling these new capabilities across therapeutic areas, globally. Working across functions, the Global Medical Engagement Lead will partner with global, regional, and country stakeholders, ensuring an integrated implementation, together with Strategic Planning, , MA Technology and the Insights, Data & Analytics teams.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Lead the development of assigned global Medical Excellence Programs which may include Medical/Commercial Key Account Management, Care Gap Engagement Planning, Medical KPIs/Outcome Measures, KOL Segmentation, and others.

• Serve as a leader within the Global Medical Excellence team, working closely with Medical Affairs leadership, Business Conduct, Medical Governance and Commercial Leadership

• Provide Medical Leadership to align technology, data, and analytics capabilities with the assigned Medical Excellence Programs.

• Partner with Regional teams to understand and incorporate local needs into global programs.

• Partner with Regional teams to ensure effective implementation, change management, and adoption of assigned global programs.

• Establish and monitor success measures of assigned global programs establishing a continuous process improvement mindset to ensure they lead to the desired outcomes.

• Collaborate with Learning & Development team to ensure assigned programs are effectively incorporated into role specific training curriculum.

• Work with selected affiliates and global stakeholders to leverage real-world data to understand national, regional or local care gaps relevant to patients, updating on a regular cycle

• Execute appropriate stakeholder and risk management interventions (i.e. stakeholder mapping and omnichannel engagement plans) and identify and resolve business risks/issues

• Function as a strategic partner internally as well as externally on matters of critical importance for innovation in medical engagement

• Develop creative and effective solutions to inter- and intra-project priority conflicts, resource constraints and other challenges which may impact project goals and deliverables across multiple teams

• Collaborate with relevant Medical Affairs teams from global to local as well as Commercial and Data & Analytics entities to evolve medical engagement channels, work practices, and processes

• Direct and lead continuous improvement of patient-focused engagement and supporting tools to identify best practices and appropriate resource needs, including budget, digital tools, and personnel

• Monitor industry Medical Affairs best practices and provide recommendations for process improvement, engagement innovation, training delivery and technology needs

Knowledge, Experience and Skills:

• Advanced scientific degree with significant business experience and/or business degree with significant scientific experience

• Extensive experience in global/in-market Pharma/Biopharma Medical Affairs, or equivalent experience

• Oncology and/or Virology experience preferable

• Experience shaping, developing and successfully implementing regional and/or in-market plans for medical engagement

• Experience leveraging advanced analytics to identify gaps in guidelines based healthcare and unmet medical need

• In-depth understanding of industry regulations and requirements relevant for all aspects of Medical Affairs responsibilities

• Experience writing business requirements and providing Medical Leadership to technology implementations to ensure that the solutions support Medical processes.

• Experience with strategic planning processes, and successful implementation of plans across regions and therapeutic areas

• Experience interpreting forecasts, budgets, financial processes and tools

• Experience in translating business needs into a coordinated plan

• Results-orientation with ability to develop creative and simple solutions to complex problems

• Strong ability to collaborate across multiple internal and external partners

• Highly organized with a strong attention to detail, clarity, accuracy and conciseness

• Uncompromising ethical standard and conduct

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with demonstrated ability to build relationships, collaborate, influence decision-making, negotiate and build consensus

Additional Capabilities

• Managing complexity: Ability to manage complex projects and use network to solve organizational issues

• Comfort with ambiguity, paired with a proactive transformational leadership style

• Prioritization: Ability to define priorities and focus on areas that add value

• Problem Solving: Ability to identify the root cause of a problem, and propose actionable solutions

• Project Management: Clear organizational skills/ability to drive a team to solve complex problems

• Collaborative style and the ability to influence at senior levels

• Innovative, self-starter with the resilience to work effectively in a fast-moving environment

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)

It is the policy of Gilead Sciences, Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively “Gilead” or the “Company”) to recruit select and employ the most qualified persons available for positions throughout the Company. Except if otherwise provided by applicable law, all employment actions relating to issues such as compensation, benefits, transfers, layoffs, returns from layoffs, company-sponsored training, education assistance, social and recreational programs are administered on a non-discriminatory basis (i.e. without regard to protected characteristics or prohibited grounds, which may include an individual’s gender, race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, creed, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, medical condition, veteran status, and age, unless such protection is prohibited by federal, state, municipal, provincial, local or other applicable laws). Gilead also prohibits discrimination based on any other characteristics protected by applicable laws.

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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.