Executive Director, IT Enterprise AI and IT Strategy Leader

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

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.

Executive Director IT Strategy & Business Operations

We are seeking a visionary and results-driven technical leader to revolutionize Gileads approach to AI and technology. This pivotal role will shape the future through the enterprise AI & IT strategy. As the Business Strategy and Operations lead not only will you set the strategy and drive strategic projects and initiatives but you will lead enterprise architecture strategic planning IT innovation initiatives and operational excellence. The successful candidate will be a technology thought leader with a strong technical foundation a strong science background exceptional communication and influencing skills as well as a proven ability to lead enterprise-wide change and be motivated by harnessing the potential of technology to impact global health.

This position is located in Foster City CA report to the CIO will serve as a key member of the IT Leadership Team and lead a large team of about 25 professionals.

This is a site based role in Foster City CA at our global headquarters. We do offer a hybrid evironment with 3 days onsite and 2 days work from home. Remote work is not available for this specific role.

Key Responsibilities

• Spearhead the enterprise AI and IT strategy including developing the roadmap and governance and coordinating across functions to execute. Liaise with senior executives across the enterprise to ensure common expectations make sound investment choices build a robust reinforcing ecosystem and manage successful delivery and adoption that drive meaningful measurable results.

• Drive the transformation of the IT organization fostering innovation agility and scalability coordinating across all IT functions. Refresh the long-term location and staffing strategy partnering with HR Facilities FP&A and other functions to execute.

• Lead the development and execution of the IT strategy and planning in alignment with enterprise goals as well as select monitor and report on KPIs and key metrics.

• Update improve and oversee IT operations including vendor management project portfolio management governance and methodologies and financial controls. Incorporate cutting-edge concepts while adapting tools and techniques to be fit-for-purpose and simplifying processes for ease-of-use and increased compliance.

• Establish and maintain operational rigor across IT ensuring efficiency transparency and accountability. Set OKRs for the function and metrics and reporting cadence to track progress against goals.

• Partner closely with the CIO IT business partners and senior business leaders to align IT initiatives with business priorities.

• Influence cross-functional stakeholders to drive strategic outcomes and adoption of new technologies.

• Build materials for and represent IT in executive forums board updates and enterprise-wide initiatives.

• Partner with FP&A to manage the overall IT budget forecasting and expenditure.

• Lead inspire and develop a large diverse team of IT professionals across multiple disciplines.

• Oversee key function-wide IT communications and engagement activities including strategy development planning and coordinating the execution.

• Build a high-performance outcome-based culture focused on accountability innovation and collaboration. Model test-and-learn data-driven approaches and embed agile and lean techniques and practices across the function.

• Provide effective feedback coaching mentorship and career development opportunities to team and across IT.

• Effectively lead organizational change and support others through transformation.

Skills and Experience

• 14 years of experience with ideally a MBA Masters or PhD from relevant disciplines such as AI Computer Science Math Engineering or/and core sciences such as Medicine/ Biology/ Chemistry.

• Progressive experience in IT leadership roles including experience in strategic and financial planning operations and people management.

• Proven success leading global large-scale transformation initiatives and enterprise technology programs.

• Prior experience in biopharma/life sciences industry and fluency across the value chain and or experience from VC or Technology companies.

• Strong technical background with the ability to engage and influence in both business technical and ideally scientific discussions.

• Innovation mindset and success leading early-stage innovative initiatives as well as scaling such initiatives.

• Proven track record as a people leader and manager inspiring and cultivating talent.

• Fluency in enterprise architecture review processes and rationalization.

• Deep understanding of IT project governance financial management vendor ecosystems and project portfolio management.

• Demonstrated experience engaging with senior executives and navigating across functions to drive strategic initiatives.

• Exceptional communication leadership and influencing skills. Highly skilled at storytelling and transforming data and insights into compelling crisp narratives and images.

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