Director, PDM Product & Project Management - Foster City

Director, Product & Project Management

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.

Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company that has pursued and achieved breakthroughs in medicine for more than three decades, with the goal of creating a healthier world for all people. The company is committed to advancing innovative medicines to prevent and treat life-threatening diseases, including HIV, viral hepatitis, and cancer. Gilead operates in more than 35 countries worldwide, with headquarters in Foster City, California.

Key Responsibilities :

• Serve as expert PM for our portfolio of development & commercial products with deep PM experience, working in partnership with the PDM Product Strategy Leads to develop, gain approval for, and execute on the product strategy for our products, including key milestones, budgeting and resource allocation.
• Identify and share best practices across the Product Strategy Teams and across the PDM-wide PM network.
• Use and iterate on a set of templated tools and processes for the PDM Team System, e.g. tools for communicating risks, key product milestones and product budgets.
• Ensure project work complies with established practices, policies and processes. Identify and share best practices with the other Product Management Directors.
• Direct highly complex product communications and ensure that all product 'customers' are fully informed and knowledgeable of product activities and their status.
• Organize preparation of high-quality documents for review by governance committee in collaboration with the PDM Product Team.
• Identify complex project issues which pose a challenge to achieving strategic goals for the Product Teams and then propose and implement plans to resolve such issues and execute corrective actions, with the PDM Product Strategy Lead.
• Support accurate and speedy PDM due diligence assessments as a PM so that the impact on PDM is planned and predictable.
• Support PDM Operations Management's implementation and iteration of G.Plan (Planisware) and G. Plan product templates. Support the flow of accurate data into PDM milestone planning and resource-allocation tools (G.Plan).
• Support PDM Operations Management's and PDM Finance's collection of product budget information by implementing processes for PMs to collect budget info on a per product basis.
• Support PDM Operations Management's product portfolio reporting & analytics.
• Serve as PM for key PDM non-product projects, working with senior PDM leaders.

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