Senior Director, Medical Excellence Strategic Programs

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Job Description

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

The Senior Director Medical Excellence Strategic Programs is a senior leader within the Global Medical Excellence Team part of Gileads Global Medical Strategy and Operations organization. This role is responsible for driving capability development process excellence and strategic alignment across Gileads Medical Affairs organization globally.

The Senior Director will partner across therapeutic areas regions and functions to design implement and continuously improve frameworks and tools that enable Medical Affairs teams to deliver measurable scientific and operational excellence consistently.

The scope of this role will evolve to continuously advance Medical Affairs capabilities with an initial focus on strengthening Gilead Medical Affairs Engagement Strategy helping teams translate strategic objectives into actionable measurable and compliant engagement plans. This includes enabling effective use of all available medical channels (Field Medical Medical Information and Digital/Omnichannel platforms).

This is a strategic enablement role focused on improving how Medical Affairs operates collaborates and demonstrates value globally.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Medical Excellence Leadership

• Partner with the Medical Excellence Leadership team to define and execute the global Medical Excellence strategy.
• Lead initiatives that elevate consistency quality and impact of medical engagement planning execution and measurement.
• Drive continuous improvement of Medical Affairs processes tools and operating models.
• Collaborate with other GMSO teams including Digital Insights and Analytics Scientific Communications and Content Strategy and Medical Affairs Technology to build programs that leverage the connection across capabilities.
• Partner with Regional Medical Excellence to ensure consistent deployment and execution across the regional teams.

2. Worldwide Engagement Strategy Enablement

• Develop and deploy frameworks tools and support that help local and regional medical teams translate global medical strategy into effective engagement plans.
• Define standard methodologies templates and tools that optimize planning execution and measurement across all engagement channels (Field Medical Medical Information Digital etc.).
• Collaborate with Channel Leads (digital personal and print) to establish clear principles for channel selection integration and sequencing ensuring the right interaction at the right time for the right stakeholder.
• Support country and regional teams in operationalizing omnichannel approaches that align with scientific and compliance standards.

3. Process & Capability Development

• Identify and improve cross-functional Medical Affairs processes that enhance agility effectiveness and alignment.
• Lead projects to simplify workflows clarify decision ownership and reduce duplication across global regional and local teams.
• Partner with Learning & Development to design capability-building programs (training toolkits playbooks) that embed best practices.
• Drive continuous improvement through feedback loops metrics and lessons learned from across the organization.

4. Collaboration & Change Leadership

• Partner closely with cross-functional leaders in Field Medical Strategy and Operations Medical Governance and Compliance to ensure process alignment and scalability.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to global and regional medical leadership teams to drive adoption of best practices.
• Lead global working groups and communities of practice that foster peer learning and consistency.
• Act as a change leader influencing communicating and embedding a culture of excellence across the global Medical Affairs network.

5. Measurement & Impact

• Define and monitor key success metrics for Medical Excellence initiatives and engagement effectiveness.
• Partner with analytics teams to design dashboards and scorecards that enable data-driven decision making.
• Ensure that process improvements translate into measurable enhancements in scientific engagement compliance and stakeholder satisfaction.

Qualifications:

• 12 years of relevant experience with an Advanced degree (MS MBA PharmD PhD or equivalent) in a scientific or business discipline.
• 10 years of experience in Medical Affairs preferably with global or regional leadership role.
• Demonstrated success in Medical Excellence process optimization capability building or strategic operations.
• Proven track record leading cross-functional initiatives that improve effectiveness and alignment.
• Experience supporting engagement strategy or omnichannel medical planning strongly preferred.
• Excellent communication facilitation and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong analytical mindset and familiarity with metrics-driven performance improvement.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a highly matrixed global organization.

Personal Attributes:

• Strategic systems thinker able to connect process design to business impact.
• Collaborative and credible partner who influences without authority.
• Change-oriented leader who inspires confidence and adoption.
• Comfortable operating at both conceptual and tactical levels.
• Passionate about advancing scientific engagement and improving patient outcomes.

Impact of the Role:

This position will help ensure that Medical Affairs operates as a strategic insights-driven and impact-focused function fully aligned with Gileads vision of transforming care for people with life-threatening diseases worldwide.

By embedding consistent frameworks capabilities and engagement excellence this leader will help global and local teams work smarter faster and more cohesively ultimately amplifying Gileads scientific voice and medical impact.

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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