Vice President, US Medical Affairs

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Job Description

Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a research-based biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes innovative medicines in areas of unmet medical need. We strive to transform and simplify care for people with life-threatening illnesses around the world. Gilead's portfolio of products and pipeline of investigational drugs includes treatments for HIV/AIDS, liver diseases, cancer, inflammatory/fibrotic and respiratory disease conditions. Gilead is a patient focused and science driven company.

Established in our Global and USA headquarters in Foster City, CA, this individual will report to the SVP of Global Medical Affairs and Regulatory Affairs, Patient Safety & Quality within the Development organization. This individual will provide strong medical leadership in developing strategic, executable plans for the US region. This experienced people leader will lead an established United States of America Medical Affairs (US-MA) team and be accountable for ensuring strategic and operational excellence of the MA function, across both Virology and Oncology within the region and maintaining the best-in-class MA Organization that works effectively cross-functionally. This individual will be responsible for developing the US Plan of Action (US-POA) medical strategy, communications, and medical expert engagement important to support Gilead therapeutics areas, approved products and pipeline, and to effectively serve the unmet medical needs of patients, healthcare providers, and payers.

The Head of US Medical Affairs will partner closely with colleagues in Global Medical Affairs (GMA), research, development, commercial, corporate strategy, public affairs and government affairs, legal/compliance, and senior management at the country and at the corporate level in order to develop and execute short and long-term strategies and tactics for Gilead products.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Manages the US Medical Affairs Teams across all Therapeutic Areas
• Accountable for the overall function and governance of US-MA, working closely with the Global Medical Directors (GMDs) as well as ensuring alignment with the Development and Commercial leadership and organizations
• Oversee the development of medical strategies and the US- POA for Gilead’s products, including pipeline products, to meet the unmet medical needs of patients in the US
• Ensure that the US-MA vision and strategies are developed and aligned with the Integrated Strategic Plans (ISP) by leading the US-MA Leadership Team in the development of Patient-Focused strategies through a cross-functional approach incorporating the patient perspective into each therapeutic area and their treatments.
• Accountable for the strategy and tactic development for US-MA activities and US Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) advocacy plans to build and maintain critical relationships and knowledge management.
• Allocate, develop, and deploy resources within corporate budget guidelines.
• Provide inspirational leadership to the US-MA team by creating an environment of mutual respect and shared goals, clear responsibilities, talent development/engagement/retention plans, and continuous improvement mindset
• Collaborates with Medical Affairs Operations, Medical Affairs Research and Patient Focused Medical Education and Strategy teams to deliver the strategies and tactics within the US.
• Demonstrate the clinical value of Gilead’s products to ensure greater effectiveness, integration and adoption of innovative products within US-MA region by providing region specific inputs and effectively leveraging Medical Affairs Research, Real World Data (RWD) as well as collaborating with HEOR, to meet the needs of payers and treatment guidelines committee members.
• Advocate and represent the US-MA region, with unmet needs and opportunities at local forums, and communicate to US-MA leadership team to incorporate the relevant discussions and decisions of the Gilead Global Headquarters.
• Collaborates with Global, Regional and Country Leadership teams to drive scientific leadership and patient-centered approaches throughout the organization.
• Demonstrate functional leadership through scientific expertise and in-depth understanding (scientific and medical) of relevant disease states, products, competitors, marketplace, related medical areas and regulatory guidelines.

Qualifications

• An advanced MD educational degree from an accredited university is required, with a minimum 10-15 years of US Medical Affairs executive leadership experience, preferably in a similar role, in either pharma or large biotech companies
• Superior leadership and people-management skills, with a proven track-record of building and retaining high-performing teams.
• Solid understanding of the USA region regulations that govern Medical Affairs activities as well as detailed knowledge of medical practices and treatment landscape
• Ability to manage competing priorities and projects, requiring an excellent ability to prioritize and manage expectations by demonstrating the ability to focus on POAs and while analyzing complex issues and drive to timely, thoughtful and realistic solutions and recommendations
• Must thrive in a fast-paced innovative environment while remaining agile, adaptive, proactive, resourceful and efficient
• Effective interpersonal skills commensurate with the need to effectively manage teams in a matrix environment and ability to develop important relationships with key stakeholders, within and beyond their team, including with management and external stakeholders
• Demonstrable cross-cultural awareness of the USA region and possess strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to maintain the highest degree of confidentiality and integrity, represent the company’s high ethics, moral behavior, and professionalism
• Must play an active role and have a passion for getting things done, as well as the ability to learn quickly
• Demonstrated ability to maintain scientific knowledge and credibility, to effectively communicate and discuss scientific information with both internal and external stakeholders
• Be based in Foster City with a willingness/ability to travel up to 30% in and out of region as needed

As an equal opportunity employer, Gilead Sciences Inc. is committed to a diverse workforce. Employment decisions regarding recruitment and selection will be made without discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, genetic information or characteristic, gender identity and expression, veteran status, or other non-job related characteristics or other prohibited grounds specified in applicable federal, state and local laws.

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