Senior Director, PDM Product Strategy Leader

Senior Director, PDM Product Strategy Leader

United States - California - Foster City Process/Product Development & Operations Regular

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.

Foster City, CA

Reporting to the VP of PDM Product Strategy, within the Product and Portfolio Strategy (PPS) function, and part of the broader Pharmaceutical Development and Manufacturing (PDM) organization, this role leads strategic cross‑functional teams responsible for all technical and CMC aspects of the assigned products, from entry into the technical development portfolio all the way through to the end of the product life‑cycle.

The PDM Product Leaders will be a team of people from diverse technical or business backgrounds. For some products, these leaders may be performing the role on a part‑time basis, but this role is full‑time and may be managing more than one product depending on the life‑cycle related workload.

• As the PDM representative on the Gilead Program Strategy Team, translate business strategy and PST vision into the PDM plan for execution, bring technical issues to the team and influence decision making and strategy. Proactively raise issues and options to the strategy teams and ensure consistent application of enterprise‑wide prioritization principles. Ensure that technical perspectives and concerns are reflected in the strategic plans for the assigned products.
• Direct Process Development and Analytical Development teams to ensure effective and timely progression of pipeline projects and CMC life‑cycle planning. Develop and own the product technical plan including timelines, multi‑year budgets and critical deliverables, and influence PDM functional leaders, to ensure PDM meets the enterprise goals for the product.
• Develop and ensure delivery of the process and analytical development activity in alignment with products’ core strategy and milestones from the Technical Development Teams.
• Ensure end‑to‑end design, execution and risk mitigation activities across Process, Formulation and Analytical work packages from FIH through commercialization.
• Identify process, analytical development, and control system risks – then develop mitigation plans and enable effective and timely decisions through collaboration with Technical Development Teams and PDM partners.
• Prepare annual revisions to the technical strategic plans for the products.
• Take relevant decisions to direct the product team or, for decisions outside the teams’ scope, expedite and steer through the appropriate PDM governance mechanisms.
• Accountable for clear and timely communication to senior leadership on product activities throughout the enterprise against deliverables, timelines, and resources.
• Support other PDM Product Leaders in building a peer‑group community with a range of technical backgrounds and experience through ongoing strategic coaching and skill development.
• Coach early in‑career development scientists and engineers, and others working on the product team.

• A degree in science, engineering, or technical field with directly relevant professional experience of at least 14 years with a BA/BS or 12 years with an MA/MS, PhD, Pharm
  
  D, or MD.
• Demonstration of outcome‑oriented team leadership in some aspects of pharmaceutical manufacturing, or supply chain, or quality, or CMC regulatory, or process development, or as part of a cross‑functional product team in the broader pharmaceutical industry.

• Strong influencing skills to effectively lead in a highly matrixed environment with minimal positional authority within the enterprise product teams and across PDM.
• Cross‑functional and enterprise‑wide relationship building skills.
• A strong business process orientation but able to deploy…