Gilead Sciences · 15 hours ago
Sr. Director, Public Affairs: Strategy & Operations
San Francisco Bay Area
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$243K/yr - $315K/yr
15+ years expGilead Sciences is dedicated to creating a healthier world by tackling significant health challenges. They are seeking a Sr. Director of Public Affairs to lead global planning and strategic operations within the public affairs function, ensuring alignment with business goals and enhancing the company's reputation.
BiopharmaBiotechnologyHealth CareManufacturingPharmaceutical
Responsibilities
Lead the development of the Global Strategic Public Affairs plan, setting annual strategic priorities aligned to our business strategy, defining areas where public affairs can have the greatest impact on our business and reputation, and working synergistically with the SVP and Public Affairs Leadership Team to implement this strategy to public affairs teams across the world
Ensure public affairs strategy and planning occurs in synergy with the commercial business planning cycle, (global to local), ensuring that individual public affairs teams are coordinated with each other and that affiliates are briefed in a timely manner to develop their local executional plans
Build powerful two-way relationships with the Public Affairs Leadership Team and key cross-functional business leaders, and bring in broader internal and external insights to ensure the function is responding in a coherent, coordinated way to address immediate and long term
Develop dashboards, processes and systems to enable integrated operations for communications and public affairs channels
Identify areas where public affairs counsel and influence can be strengthened within internal teams such as R&D Development, Medical, Commercial and Government Affairs
Drive efficiency, excellence and scalability in the public affairs function by overseeing priority function-wide projects such as improved planning and processes, metrics and evaluation, and people/culture development. Including the research, benchmarking and analysis of data to optimize program outcomes
Aid the SVP PA with preparation for the Public Affairs Leadership Team meetings, including agenda development, speaker briefings and managing meeting outputs. Manage the cadence for Leadership Team meetings and other communications touchpoints
Ensure SVP PA is prepared for key meetings with essential information and the detail to answer critical questions. Represent the SVP PA at senior meetings, as required
Partner with HR to develop competency development plans, in areas such as community engagement, advocacy, digital/social, therapy area science, media relations skills and business acumen
Develop metrics for success, monitoring progress and outcomes. Apply data and insights to drive key objectives and establish reputational KPIs across our public affairs program
Leverage data and insights to advise and influence business and reputation decisions in real time. Experience in digital analytics and AI empowered processes is preferred
Collaborate with functional leaders and Finance to develop and manage the annual budget planning for the function, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities and efficient resource allocation across teams
Lead change management initiatives within the function, ensuring smooth transitions during organizational shifts or strategic pivots. This includes aligning the Public Affairs team with the evolving business needs, technologies, or market conditions
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree plus minimum of 15+ years of business transformation, strategy and operations experience
Demonstrated track record of Leadership Team expertise, managing high profile programs and issues, partnering with senior leaders to drive business goals
Ability to manage multiple priorities, to draw out diverse views, and to show tact and discretion in challenging situations
Proven ability to effectively manage complex and ambiguous projects, influence stakeholders without authority, effectively network across the organization and communicate with senior leaders all within a fast moving, challenging and dynamic commercial environment
Comprehensive understanding of the biopharmaceutical industry, R&D and product commercialization, including the regulatory framework
Preferred
Some relevant experience in public affairs and communications
Experience in digital analytics and AI empowered processes
Benefits
Discretionary annual bonus
Discretionary stock-based long-term incentives (eligibility may vary based on role)
Paid time off
Company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans
Company
Gilead Sciences
Gilead Sciences is a biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, manufactures and commercializes therapies for critical diseases.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$4.41BKey Investors
Abingworth
2024-11-13Post Ipo Debt· $3.5M
2024-02-29Post Ipo Equity· $210M
2023-09-07Post Ipo Debt· $2B
Leadership Team
Keeley Wettan
Senior Vice President, Legal
Patrick Loerch
Senior Vice President, Clinical Data Science
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