Associate Director, Patient Safety - Process Optimization & Training: Project Manager

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Job Description

The Patient Safety (PS) department is a global function that is part of the Development organization within Gilead. The main Pharmacovigilance activities of PS are centered at three sites: Foster City and Santa Monica in the USA and Cambridge in the UK.

This role sits in the PS Strategic Operations team responsible for delivering the holistic operational aspects across the PS department. This includes responsibility for optimization of process, resourcing change management and strategic initiatives across PS as well as the delivery of specific operational activities such as end to end collection of safety data from global sources and ISCR management, PV Alliances and PV Agreements including Ops Due Diligence and Integrations, Process Documents and Training, review of PV-related policies and global regulations, Vendor, Distributor and Solicited Program Governance, Solicited Programs and REMS, operational aspects of clinical studies and Quality initiatives and Inspection Readiness.

Patient Safety is seeking an ambitious individual to join the Strategic Operations team as an Associate Director responsible for Project Management and driving PV Strategic Initiatives.

Although the role will be within the Strategic Operations function, the role will work across the broader Patient Safety and work with leads and SMEs in all PS functions, including the TAs, Benefit Risk Sciences and Established Products and Pharmacovigilance Governance & Affiliates.

The role will provide project management expertise across Patient Safety's projects, initiatives, and key capabilities, helping to deliver key milestones inline with the PS strategy and functional goals:

• Acts as the Project Manager for assigned projects of increasing complexity independently

• Manages the full PM lifecycle for assigned projects and acts as a functional area expert.

• Develops and manages project plans and manages project timelines, communications, meetings, and other interactions to ensure project deliverables are met on-time, to the quality expected, and within budget

• Directs project change management and communications and ensures that all project customers are fully informed and knowledgeable of project activities and their status.

• Organizes Project Management resource? for various functional areas on the Project, attends sub-team meetings; organizes ad hoc working groups.

• Typically manages multiple projects simultaneously and expected to play a key role in ensuring cross-project synergies are realized.

• Develops PM tools and framework for PS and guides more junior members of the team to offer project support, building out relevant tools and resources.

• Build out tools and systems to aide tracking of PS projects, including developing associated dashboards and metrics to help report and pull data as required.

• Develop tools to help manage, monitor, and oversee resource requirements across PS projects.

You will work closely with leads and SMEs across Patient Safety, as well as stakeholders and functional experts from interfacing and key cross functional groups.

Job Skills:

• Identifies and pursues global and long-term goals for the group, in collaboration with team head, taking into account and providing support for the strategic goals of the organization

• Demonstrates excellent verbal and written communication skills; has ability to provide direction to a team, and to influence peers and team members appropriately.

• Develops solutions to a wide range of complex problems which require the regular use of ingenuity, creativity, and innovation, ensuring solutions are consistent with organization objectives; develops concepts, techniques, standards, and new applications based on professional principles and theories; viewed as an expert within the organization

• Serves as consultant to PS management in area of expertise and acts as a spokesperson for the PS organization in matters pertaining to its policies, plans, and long-term goals and objectives.

• Maintains knowledge of company disease and therapeutic areas

• Recognizes potential or impending problems, implements and delivers solutions.

• Contributes to department strategic planning, SOP creation and updates for PS, review and critique audits and data analysis pertaining to their projects or the wider PS organization, manages corrective actions and highlights concerns to PS management

• Makes and effects decisions that are long-lasting and influence the future course of the PS organization.

Education and Experience: At a minimum, the ideal candidate will possess

• A scientific background is preferred

• Experience typically includes appropriate years leading cross-functional project management activities within the biopharma industry; building, managing and articulating comprehensive, complex, cross-functional plans.

• Helping project teams develop creative alternative scenarios, and acting effectively as a thought partner to others

• Typically required to demonstrate proven effectiveness managing project teams in life sciences, including proven capabilities for effectively and efficiently facilitating project meetings and decision-making.

• Typically expected to have a proven track record of successfully managing multiple projects simultaneously.

• Line management (direct reports) experience is a plus.

• Resource and workload management experience

• 8+ years of relevant experience and a BS in science or; 6+ years of relevant experience and a MS or MBA

The salary range for this position is: $191,335.00 - $247,610.00. 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*.

For additional benefits information, visit:

https://www.gilead.com/careers/compensation-benefits-and-wellbeing

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

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