Associate Director

True Job Title: ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR CATEGORY MANAGEMENT IT
Location: Foster City CA or Raleigh NC
Hybrid: 3 days onsite 2 days remote
100% remote candidates will be considered if its right fit

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Develop enterprisewide IT category strategies to deliver value by achieving cost savings and improving quality and delivery.
Partner with Procurement Business Partner and IT department business stakeholders across key technology pillars to understand business objectives desired product/service specifications and projected demand.
Ensure the company has a good understanding of the supply market. Work with the Procurement Business Partner and business stakeholders to jointly create innovative winwin customer and supplier strategies.
Provide IT category subject matter expertise to business stakeholders and crossfunctionally.
Oversee all spend activity for assigned category areas and determine proper action plan for all purchases in alignment with IT category strategy.
Consult with cross functional teams to execute strategic sourcing projects for assigned category.
Proactively identify improvement opportunities for assigned category and recommend key actions to the appropriate stakeholders.
Collaborate with Procurement Business Partners Supplier Inclusion and Sourcing Operations to create standard and repeatable process to integrate business diversity and responsible procurement into overall value proposition.
Develop factbased negotiation strategies with stakeholders within assigned categories.
Partner with Procurement Program Managers to operationalize enterprise Procurement programs.
Execute initiatives to classify suppliers and manage supplier relationships according to defined supplier relationship management standards.
Seek develop and establish business relationships with key suppliers. Meet regularly with IT stakeholders to ensure outstanding customer satisfaction and continuous improvement against category targets are met.
Partner with internal senior leaders suppliers and cross functional leads to define clear supplier objectives which meet Gileads business needs including quality reliability innovation and cost.
Combine all spend information into yearly plans and longterm forecasts for costs savings targets value beyond savings and planned projects
Drive use of procurement best practices and standardization of processes while minimizing supply risk.
Foster a culture of inclusion results orientation and psychological safety to optimize team performance.

Experience Requirements:

10 years professional work experience plus a BS/BA or 8 years professional work experience plus a MA/MS or MBA in a corporate environment preferably in the areas of DEI procurement and supplier management or corporate strategy.
Experience supporting Global Procurement transformation projects working directly with business partners to execute on defined scope budget and transformation results.
Proven track record of applying procurement principles concepts best practices and standards along with an indepth knowledge of industry practices required.
Ability to develop category and sourcing strategies by identifying opportunity areas with a proven record of effectively directing and leveraging procurement spend in assigned category areas by leading global cross functional teams.
Experience managing and maintaining strong supplier relationships.
Strong leadership presence and negotiation/contract management experience
Extensive knowledge and experience with procurement/spend systems data and analysis
Experience working with and leading multiple projects and teams simultaneously across a matrixed organization.
Meets Gilead s leadership commitments with demonstrated experience in applying these principles