Strategic Projects Director

Strategic Projects Director
United States - California - Foster City

Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a research-based bio-pharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes innovative medicines in areas of unmet medical need. With each new discovery and investigational drug candidate, we seek to improve the care of patients living with life-threatening diseases around the world. Gileads therapeutic areas of focus include HIV/AIDS, liver diseases, cancer and inflammation, and serious respiratory and cardiovascular conditions.

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Gilead Sciences, Inc. Is a research-based biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes innovative medicines in areas of unmet medical need. With each new discovery and investigational drug candidate, we seek to improve the care of patients living with life-threatening diseases around the world. Gilead's therapeutic areas of focus include HIV/AIDS, liver diseases, cancer and inflammation, and serious respiratory and cardiovascular conditions.

Position Overview

The Director, Strategic Projects in Managed Markets Strategy & Operations (MSO), based in Foster City, CA, has the primary responsibility to manage and execute cross functional projects and coordinate resources. This is a part-time role targeted to work approximately 20 hours per week.

This role will be immersed in strategic and operational analysis as well as take a lead role in driving large projects to have an impact on the US business.

This role reports to the Vice President of Managed Markets Strategy & Operations.

Responsibilities

• Focus on driving business results and strategic initiatives through operational rigor, collaboration and cross functional / leadership alignment.
• Analyze data and develop insights to drive strategic business decisions
• Influence leadership to ensure programs, processes, and initiatives are meaningful and aligned to the overall business strategy
• partner closely with Government Affairs, Legal, Finance, Brand leadership and Collaborate across Managed Markets
• Lead the maintenance, refinement and refreshing of the MSO strategy
• Uncover areas within the business to drive performance and efficiency improvements to unlock productivity and accelerate execution and support project management of these initiatives.
• Develop and maintain work plans on key initiatives which include identification of project tasks, clear milestones, and assignments of work project responsibilities, schedules, plans, resources, budget, and status reports.
• Assist with coordination of QBR/business updates, Scorecard tracking, leadership meetings, project/initiative presentations, all Hands presentations;
• Curate topical discussions for leadership team meetings and drive actions / follow-up process

Capabilities & Requirements

• proactive thinker who is capable and adept at strategy development and implementation. This must balance staying ahead of the curve thinking with practical realities and an ability to produce relevant work products that directly support the business decisions.
• Strong strategic thinking. Experience and ability to develop and articulate complex strategic issues and ideas
• Ability to influence to align and execute strategies
• Must be able to provide structure to ambiguous ideas and questions.
• Must have strong oral and written communications skills and must be proficient in PowerPoint to develop executive level materials for communications.
• Strong analytics skills, familiar with excel and comfortable understanding and generating basic quantitative models.
• Nimble and adaptive. Must be able to work on multiple projects with overlapping timelines and meet all deadlines. Needs to be able to quickly digest and prioritize information. Need to be adaptive and open to new ideas.
• Highly resourceful and strategic thinker with strong emotional intelligence, operational rigor and project management capabilities
• Demonstrated consistent cross-functional collaborator, and business partner, directly contributing to teams to achieve overall objectives
• Strong leadership and communication skills across functions and leadership teams; comfort in business and technical discussions
• Ability to gain depth of understanding of the function's financials; in partnership with finance partners, identify initiatives to support commercial opportunities for growth and return on shareholder value
• Experience driving large initiatives from framing the problem, conducting research/analysis to building the business and operational plans through to driving execution to success is required
• Self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative, and innovative high-growth environment
• 10+ years of growing responsibility with broad exposure to multiple functions

Education

• Bachelor's degree required
• Master of Business Administration or other advanced degree, preferred

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