Senior Director

Senior Director, Global Decision Sciences & Insights (GDS&I) - HIV/EV Pipeline
United States - California - Foster City

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Job Description

Our Senior Director, Global Decision Sciences & Insights (GDSI) for the HIV/EV pipeline leads a team focusing on market and customer insights, forecasting, and analytics. Key stakeholders include the HIV/EV Pipeline Global Strategic Marketing team, the HIV Launch Global Strategic Marketing team and various internal partners. This role reports to the Executive Director, Global Decision Sciences & Insights, HIV/COVID/Emerging Viruses. The responsibilities include but are not limited to overseeing team projects, driving HIV pipeline insights, participating in high-profile projects, and collaborating with internal stakeholders globally.

This role is located in our Foster City, CA office (3 days in office, 2 days work from home).

The individual will:

• Lead a team of individual contributors in market research, forecasting, and analytics.
• Guide the team with solid hands-on technical skills across analytics, forecasting, and market research.
• Lead identification of information needs for upcoming critical business decisions and define global primary market research and data analytics priorities, together with GSM leads
• Drive robust integrated insights generation and deliver a clear and compelling storyline for HIV/EV pipeline and HIV Lenacapavir Launch, supporting strategic decision-making.
• Serve as the key contact for HIV Lenacapavir Launch and HIV/EV pipeline-related market and customer insights and forecasts.
• Collaborate with Data Science for deeper insights into market dynamics and customer behaviors.
• Manage team development, fostering a culture of measurement and impact.

Essential duties include:

• Defining a vision and leading the team of individual contributors.
• Providing hands-on market analytics and insights leadership for global marketing strategy.
• Leading strategic forecasting and commercial assessment activities for pipeline products and communication of assessments and recommendations to the senior leadership team.
• Acting as the integrated insights lead as well as a business partner for HIV/EV pipeline, representing the team in key situations.
• Leading ad hoc strategy projects and initiatives.
• Collaborating with key internal partners to improve efficiency and consistency.
• Enabling professional growth and development for individual contributors through leadership effectiveness and solid technical skills.

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree and 14 Years' Experience

OR

Masters' Degree and 12 Years' Experience

OR

PhD and 12 Years' Experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• With a Bachelor's degree, at least 14 years' relevant experience in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, or consulting with a focus in one or more areas of market research, forecasting, analytics, decision analytics, commercial strategy, or marketing or at least 12 years' experience (with an advanced degree)
• MBA, Ph.D. in Life Sciences, or M.D. is preferred
• Experience specific to the HIV therapeutic area is preferred
• Impeccable credibility as a commercial analytics expert and partner with the brand teams, country teams and other cross-functional partners
• Business leadership experience, and a track record of "influencing without authority" (specifically, more senior Commercial and cross-functional partners) in successful conflict resolution, and driving consensus
• Prior experience conducting, analyzing, and communicating qualitative and quantitative market research is required
• Experience in patient-based market/revenue modeling is required
• Must possess good task management skills, planning, prioritization, objective setting, and meeting management and plan execution
• History of working and delivering on multiple projects simultaneously, with tight deadlines and changing priorities is required
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills are required
• Ability to effectively leverage Microsoft Office (specifically PowerPoint and Excel) to present quantitative data in graphical form is required
• Experience in successfully presenting to senior leadership audiences, including simplifying complex materials, educating, and managing audiences with differing viewpoints to get to alignment via clear and compelling storylines
• Experience in biopharmaceutical-focused marketing, commercial strategy, or consulting is desirable
• Proven history of working and delivering on multiple projects simultaneously, with tight deadlines and changing priorities is required
• Passionate about the function, and a natural curiosity to solve complex problems

People Leader Accountabilities:

• Create Inclusion - knowing the business value of diverse teams, modelling 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, organizational objectives and holding to account. They provide the support needed to remove barriers and connect their team to the broader ecosystem.

The salary range for this position is: $255,425.00 - $330,550.00. Gilead considers a variety of factors when determining base compensation, including experience, qualifications, and geographic location. These considerations mean actual compensation will vary. This position may also be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus, discretionary stock-based long-term incentives (eligibility may vary based on role), paid time off, and a benefits package. Benefits include company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans .

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Eligible employees may participate in benefit plans, subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans.

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