Director, Regulatory Affairs Labeling Execution

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Job Description

Regulatory Affairs Labeling is a core function within Gileads Global Regulatory Affairs organization and acts as a critical strategic partner across crossfunctional teams. Regulatory Affairs Labeling creates updates and maintains product information and labeling documentation for all relevant Gilead products across our product portfolio. Product information and labeling documentation contains the most accurate product use benefits dosage/application and safety information such as side effects and other safety guidelines for patients and healthcare providers. Regulatory Affairs Labeling Execution plays a key role in providing regulatory strategy and expertise to drive operational excellence in endtoend processes for RA labeling translations and artwork as well as ensuring that product labeling and associated documents comply with governing laws regulations and company policies and procedures. Regulatory Affairs Labeling Execution collaborates closely with crossfunctional partners including other Regulatory and Development teams Legal Commercial and external third parties such as strategic partners translation vendors and regulatory agencies to ensure compliant timely and appropriate delivery of product information labeling translations and artwork updates.

In this role you will lead labeling operations for global and regional labeling documents including translations and artwork for products within multiple therapeutic areas from submission through approval and to implementation into packs in the markets. Labeling documents may include Company Core Data Sheets (CCDS) United States Package Inserts (USPI) EU Summary of product characteristics (SmPC) and product labeling for other applicable territories. This role is essential for ensuring that all labeling documents are compliant with internal Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and external regulatory requirements to facilitate effective review by health authorities and other stakeholders and ensure quality in product information labeling.

You will be a member of the Global Labeling Execution Team with considerable responsibilities to develop continuously improve and innovate global regulatory and labeling policies practices processes tools team and other capabilities.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Leads and oversees global labeling operations for core and regional labeling translations and artwork including proposing operational strategy and defining developing and implementing process improvements and initiatives.

• Partners with crossfunctional colleagues and vendors to execute core and regional labeling translation and artwork deliverables ensuring consistency and quality at every stage of the product lifecycle in adherence with regulatory requirements and timelines.

• Supports the design implementation and continuous improvement of standardized processes Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and work instructions related to core and regional labeling translations and artwork.

• Agrees and implements outsourcing strategy applicable to core and regional labeling including SPL translations and artwork.

• Ensures labeling documents meet the relevant regulatory requirements e.g. PLR QRD.

• Ensures completion of applicable regulatory submissions such as Member State Linguistic Review and Closing Sequences.

• Works with Global Labeling Leads (GLLs) and RA Liaisons to centralize artwork management in collaboration with Labeling Operations (Artwork) and manufacturing sites.

• Liaises with owners of systems used for artwork and translations to ensure appropriate use and maintenance of processes and workflows.

• Raises informs and resolves any issues that may impact operation activities for core and regional labeling translations and artwork including submission process or timelines working with all applicable parties.

• Manages error process for labeling translations and artwork in collaboration with Quality to ensure compliance and harmonization and to support inspection readiness activities.

• Provides support for global HA audits/ inspections and legal requests relating to translations and artwork.

• Ensures ongoing awareness of regulatory intelligence relating to labeling translation and artwork activities e.g. changes to Regulatory Agency guidance such as QRD template updates and timely and appropriate dissemination to stakeholders.

REQUIREMENTS:

We are all different yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. Please see the following for the qualifications and skills we seek for this role.

Education & Experience

• Extensive experience leading development of end to end labeling process regulatory labeling or related strategies leading crossfunctional regulatory activities and representing Regulatory to crossfunctional leaders and teams for multiple medicinal products.

• Significant experience in global management of drug labeling including core labeling and regional labeling across U.S. EU GB Australia Canada Japan Switzerland and other markets.

• Experience leading global teams and projects in regulatory or related strategies programs projects and other activities.

• Leadership experience with high complexity crossfunctional initiatives including team and governance management strategy setting and effective oversight of strategy execution.

• Experience driving inspection readiness and quality processes across the endtoend labeling process.

• Strong track record of cultivating and maintaining strategic relationships and collaborations both internally and externally.

Knowledge & Other Requirements

• Knowledge of the biopharma industry including indepth understanding of other business functions including artwork and manufacturing.

• Indepth knowledge in labeling operations compliance including quality management processes and systems.

• Indepth knowledge of systems tools metrics and digital technologies to support global labeling.

• Proven ability to influence up down and across the organization and externally in a collaborative manner.

• Strong executive presence with demonstrated influence through leadership both on program teams and organizational initiatives.

• Exceptional interpersonal skills and understanding of team dynamics.

• Strong communication and organizational skills. Able to distill complex matters into a clear business case and roadmap for execution. Demonstrated ability to align other leaders and garner their commitment and engagement to crossfunctional strategies plans and strategic objectives.

• Strong negotiation and conflict resolution skills.

• Advanced coaching capabilities to mentor/develop staff.

• When needed ability to travel.

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 companysponsored training education assistance social and recreational programs are administered on a nondiscriminatory basis (i.e. without regard to protected characteristics or prohibited grounds which may include an individuals 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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