Sr Director, Media Strategy

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About the Role:

At Gilead, Media Excellence is a strategic driver of digital transformation and customer engagement. As Senior Director, Media Excellence, you will lead the development and execution of Gilead’s U.S. Commercial media strategy—ensuring it is future‑ready, data‑driven, and aligned with business objectives. Leading the enterprise media strategy will include agency and strategic partner management. This role is pivotal in strengthening the connection between science, storytelling, and patient engagement while advancing health equity and delivering superior experiences across the patient and HCP journey.

You will oversee media strategy, governance, and innovation within the Digital, Media & Experience Strategy team and lead a high‑performing team of channel experts across programmatic, social, search, and audience management. Your leadership will foster collaboration with cross‑functional teams, agencies, and media/data partners to ensure Gilead’s media investments deliver measurable business impact.

• Define and evolve Gilead’s enterprise media strategy, embedding innovation, digital‑first mindset and alignment with business goals.
• Establish best‑in‑class standards for planning, buying, measurement and optimization across all media channels.
• Build and nurture strategic partnerships with U.S. brand teams and digital strategists to deliver world‑class media capabilities through your team and agency partners.
• Oversee the creation and continuous refinement of media plans, measurement frameworks, and optimization strategies to maximize performance and ROI.
• Manage and optimize media agency relationships, ensuring timely, compliant delivery of milestones, proper staffing, and high‑quality strategic recommendations and execution.
• Act as the subject matter expert on media best practices, processes, and systems, driving continuous improvement in paid media quality and operational excellence.
• Oversight of strategic media vendor partnerships across the enterprise.
• Implement data‑driven planning and execution using novel data sets inclusive of first‑party data to future‑prove audience strategies for greater engagement and impact, utilizing platforms such as Live Ramp and Salesforce for advanced targeting and dynamic personalization.
• Champion new ways of working and pilots that advance new media capabilities in the ever‑changing space of media and AI.
• Collaborate on the enterprise media measurement strategy, establishing unified KPIs and frameworks for cross‑channel performance reporting, MMM, and MTA.
• Drive media literacy and upskilling through the Digital Academy curriculum, fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration.

• Guide and develop a high‑performing team of channel experts across programmatic, social, search, and measurement disciplines.
• Influence and collaborate effectively with stakeholders across the Commercial Organization to align on objectives and drive impact.
• Foster a team culture that emphasizes…