Director, Organizational Effectiveness - Foster City

Director, Organizational Effectiveness

At Gilead, we're creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years, we've 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 world's biggest health challenges, and our mission requires collaboration, determination and a relentless drive to make a difference.

Every member of Gilead's 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 we're 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.

This Director of Organizational Effectiveness will be a pivotal member of the OE Team and will serve as the lead for Team Excellence & Continuous Improvement. This role will lead enterprise-wide efforts to enhance team performance, collaboration, and impact across the company. This role will design and oversee the companys diagnostic and continuous improvement approach for teams, ensuring our teams have the tools, insights, and frameworks to operate at their highest potential.

This position will play a critical role in shaping the companys strategy for how teams form, perform, and continuously evolve in alignment with organization goals, culture, and strategy.

This position reports to the Global Head of Organization Effectiveness and is based in Foster City, CA. It requires working on campus three days per week during core collaboration days (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday).

Responsibilities :

• Define and implement the enterprise strategy for team effectiveness including frameworks for diagnostics, measurement, and development.
• Partner with senior leadership, HR Business Partners, and the Organizational Effectiveness (OE) Team to align team development with business priorities and culture initiatives.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on high-performing teams, group dynamics, and continuous improvement.
• Lead the design and deployment of assessment tools and diagnostics to evaluate team health, effectiveness, and engagement.
• Develop metrics and dashboards to track progress and outcomes of team effectiveness interventions.
• Translate data insights into actionable recommendations for leaders and teams.
• Develop and oversee scalable team development, including team launches, resets, and ongoing improvement journeys.
• Create toolkits and experiences for team leaders and facilitators to build internal capability.
• Establish a sustainable model for continuous improvement and learning across teams and functions.
• Partners on high-value and complex programs / projects from inception through execution, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and leveraging OE practices, tools and capabilities to ensure outcomes. Works across Talent, Development and Inclusion to align capabilities and approaches to deliver projects or programs.
• Collaborates across the Talent, Development, and Inclusion and People Analytics teams to review OE metrics and analyze organizational health.
• Designs and implements metrics to support performance improvement or organizational health outcomes with a future-oriented mindset and simple, user-friendly approaches.
• Partners to embed OE capabilities in HR and the business. Brings expertise to develop frameworks, tools and approaches for use with diverse audiences.
• Play a key role in enabling HR capability development in selected domain areas (Org Design, Change Management / Leadership, Team Effectiveness, Culture)
• Act as a thought partner to senior leaders and HRBPs, providing insights, frameworks, and constructive challenges where needed.
• Help shape and embed a culture that supports business goals.
• Enable leaders to model desired behaviors and lead change effectively.
• Collaborate with OE Team to identify approach to prioritize, measure, and track OE initiatives ensuring tangible results.

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