Director, External Quality Strategy and Operations

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Gilead Sciences PDM External Quality is currently seeking a leader at the Associate Director/Director level to lead a team of Quality Professionals to drive strategy development and implementation of standardized communication, training and rollout of Gilead’s Quality standards, requirements, systems and tools to the Gilead’s contract organization global network.

• The successful candidate must possess expertise in leading cross‑functional business and quality process mapping, identifying improvements to existing business and quality processes and leading Operational Excellence (OpEx) initiatives that span multiple PDM External Quality teams.

• Being able to utilize the tools & training associated with business process management in a strategic capacity.

• Responsible for the management of quality agreement, coordination of quarterly management review metrics collection, annual product quality review.

• Define and align the requirements and processes for contract organizations’ quality event management inclusive of deviation and investigation, corrective and preventative action, and change control.

• Successfully and consistently roll out Gilead’s Partner Collaboration Quality System module to Gilead’s contract organization global network.

• Key representative for Gilead’s Quality Transformation initiatives.

• The leader must be able to evaluate options and trade‑offs and utilize available resources to achieve the most positive impact on the business and be able to partner with leaders in PDM External Quality and Global Quality to achieve business objectives.

• The successful candidate must have proven track records in leading Operational Excellence in Quality organization in a biotech or pharmaceutical development environment and strong knowledge of cGMP quality systems.

• Lead cross‑functional business and quality process mapping and OpEx initiatives. This requires exceptional facilitation skills to gather SME input to design clear end‑to‑end business and quality processes that are practical and meaningfully improve current processes / approaches, in addition to expertise in business and quality process and OpEx methodologies and tools.

• Ability to analyze situations and/or data, applying sound judgment and reasoning, to identify and resolve problems and make recommendations. These will typically be high‑impact processes that have implications across multiple PDM Global Quality teams.

• Interface with members of the PDM Global Quality Leadership Team to drive meaningful process improvements in PDM Global Quality.

• Utilize excellent analytical, communication and influencing skills, as well as a keen problem‑solving ability, to drive helpful changes and continuous improvements.

• A BS in life sciences or a relevant business area with 12+ years of varied post‑graduation experience in Pharmaceuticals, Biosciences or a related industry required OR
• MS with 10+ years of relevant experience OR
• PhD with 8+ years of relevant experience
• Experience leading…