Director, Business Process Lead

At Gilead were creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years weve 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 worlds biggest health challenges and our mission requires collaboration determination and a relentless drive to make a difference.

Every member of Gileads 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 were 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

Gileads mission is to discover develop and deliver therapies that will improve the lives of patients with life-threatening illnesses

worldwide.

Key Characteristics of a Successful Leader in this Role

The description emphasizes that a successful candidate must possess a blend of strategic interpersonal and analytical skills:

• Strategic Vision: The ability to see the big picture and understand that process innovation is a continuous journey. They must recognize how changes in one part of a process can impact the entire eco-system.
• Change Management: A proven ability to drive real sustainable change by engaging employees and business partners inspiring them to provide input and building buy-in for new processes. This requires strong interpersonal skills to manage the human element of change.
• Business Acumen and Tenacity: The leader must have a deep understanding of business needs and value drivers. This requires a tenacious self-motivated individualwith the determination and interpersonal skills to champion new innovations and achieve a cultural shift within the organization.

Strategic & Leadership Skills

• These skills focus on the high-level vision and direction. A Business Process Management (BPM) leader isnt just managing tasks; theyre shaping the future of the organizations processes.
• Leadership: Setting a strategic direction building teams with direct and/or dotted line reporting fostering a learning culture and exercising influence without authority.
• Manage complexity and drive for standardization: Synthesizing diverse needs across multiple functions to make sound decisions and enforce standards.
• Continuous Improvement: Leveraging expertise to recommend and implement process and systems improvements.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Acting as a trusted advisor to senior leadership to create strategies that align with business objectives.

Technical & Analytical Skills

• This category covers the how of BPMthe ability to analyse design and implement solutions.
• Hands-on Application Knowledge: A willingness to get involved in operations to truly understand the processes at a transactional level.
• Systems Knowledge and Thinking: The ability to see the big picture of a system while also being able to focus on individual details.
• Technical Skills: Using data and analysis to design new user experiences and optimize outcomes.
• Understanding Software: Knowing how to select and integrate the right software to support organizational systems.

Project & People Management Skills

• These are the skills needed to execute projects and manage the human element of change.
• Program/Project Management: Overhauling a process requires a skilled project manager to direct the overall effort.
• Communication: The ability to explain processes share documentation and translate technical details to stakeholders across departments.
• Change Management: Being adept at encouraging buy-in and championing new processes throughout the organization.
• Independently determines how to structure: The ability to independently structure and approach complex large-scale projects to meet strategic objectives.

A successful leader in this position must be a versatile professionalsomeone who is both a strategic thinker and a hands-on implementer capable of navigating both the technical and human sides of process and systems improvement. This blend of strategic technical and interpersonal skills is essential for driving organizational efficiency and innovation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Planning:Assisting the business in planning for the future contributing a process excellence perspective to business strategy and ensuring that systems and processes align with business goals.
• Process Improvement:Leading the effort to standardize simplify and optimize global processes. This includes benchmarking against industry best practices to identify and implement improvements.
• Project & Governance Management:Taking accountability for end-to-end business processes. This involves leading the development of business cases managing requirements and overseeing the entire program/project lifecycle from design to deployment and change management.
• Stakeholder Collaboration:Serving as a primary liaison between the business and IT. This person ensures that the needs of both sides are met facilitates prioritization and manages communication and expectations throughout the process.
• Team Development:Contributing to the building and management of the global Process Lead team including defining roles responsibilities and necessary skills.
• Compliance:Ensuring that all process changes and improvements adhere to quality security and risk management standards such as SOX compliance.

In essence this role is a hybrid of astrategist project manager and change agent tasked with modernizing and optimizing core business processes on a global scale while ensuring alignment with business objectives and technical capabilities.

Knowledge Experience and Skills:

• Bachelors degree in accounting / business administration or equivalent with a CPA CA or similar accounting qualification along with 12 years of relevant experience or masters degree in relevant field with 10 years of related experience.
• Experience at the leadership level either managing a team or a group of cross-functional stakeholders at operational leadership level.
• Experience of delivering large scale finance transformation programs.
• Problem solving/ resolution skills required with some formal. training/accreditation in Lead/Six-Sigma Process Improvement a real plus.
• SAP - SAP Financial experience is preferable.
• Experience and/or understanding of SAP and Ariba STS systems and process functionality.
• Proven ability to lead teams and projects to successful completion.
• A quick learner with the curiosity to delve into the detail in each process area to quickly gain a deep understanding of the processes and how Gilead executes the STS process and how they underpin the relevant metrics and goals and perform deep dive analysis on the data; essentially someone who is willing to walk in the shoes of the process owner.
• Be aware of the macro finance environment and possess the ability to successfully challenge and influence operational stakeholders.
• Well-developed influencing and change management skills that will allow for significant process lead-enabled improvements across the STS process area; experienced at building consensus among business and IT team members at all levels within the organization.
• Ability to work and coordinate across organizational boundaries and demonstrate added value in all their efforts with the various business units regions and functions.
• Strong business and technology acumen; General understanding of business and IT strategy/planning and overall understanding of IT planning and IT project lifecycle
• Strong working knowledge of governance structures with practical experience in developing and implementing effective governance processes with appropriate levels of compliance
• Solid understanding of Program Management Office (PMO) and portfolio program & project management
• Bachelors degree or equivalent in business/information management a plus.
• Excellent verbal and written communication presentation facilitation and diplomacy skills as well as the ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Leadership - the candidate must demonstrate the ability to align and motivate and provide guidance and leadership to teams across multiple functional areas to achieve objectivesthrough others.
• Self-motivated proactive independent and responsive requires little supervisory attention
• High level of personal integrity consistent with Gileads core values

People Leader Accountabilities:

Create Inclusion - knowing the business value of diverse teams modeling 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 and organizational objectives and holding

them to account. They provide the support needed to remove barriers and connect their team to the broader ecosystem.

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