Senior Director, Medical Excellence Strategic Programs

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Gilead's mission is to discover, develop, and deliver therapies that will improve the lives of patients with life-threatening illnesses worldwide.

The Senior Director, Medical Excellence Strategic Programs is a senior leader within the Global Medical Excellence Team, part of Gilead’s Global Medical Strategy and Operations organization. This role is responsible for driving capability development, process excellence and strategic alignment across Gilead’s Medical Affairs organization, globally.

The Senior Director will partner across therapeutic areas, regions, and functions to design, implement, and continuously improve frameworks and tools that enable Medical Affairs teams to deliver measurable scientific and operational excellence consistently.

The scope of this role will evolve to continuously advance Medical Affairs capabilities, with an initial focus on strengthening Gilead Medical Affairs Engagement Strategy, helping teams translate strategic objectives into actionable, measurable, and compliant engagement plans. This includes enabling effective use of all available medical channels (Field Medical, Medical Information, and Digital/Omnichannel platforms).

This is a strategic enablement role, focused on improving how Medical Affairs operates, collaborates, and demonstrates value globally.

• Partner with the Medical Excellence Leadership team to define and execute the global Medical Excellence strategy.
• Lead initiatives that elevate consistency, quality, and impact of medical engagement planning, execution, and measurement.
• Drive continuous improvement of Medical Affairs processes, tools, and operating models.
• Collaborate with other GMSO teams including Digital, Insights and Analytics, Scientific Communications and Content Strategy, and Medical Affairs Technology to build programs that leverage the connection across capabilities.
• Partner with Regional Medical Excellence to ensure consistent deployment and execution across the regional teams.
• Develop and deploy frameworks, tools, and support that help local and regional medical teams translate global medical strategy into effective engagement plans.
• Define standard methodologies, templates, and tools that optimize planning, execution, and measurement across all engagement channels (Field Medical, Medical Information, Digital, etc.).
• Collaborate with Channel Leads (digital, personal, and print) to establish clear principles for channel selection, integration, and sequencing, ensuring the right interaction at the right time for the right stakeholder.
• Support country and regional teams in operationalizing omnichannel approaches that align with scientific and compliance standards.
• Identify and improve cross-functional Medical Affairs processes that enhance agility, effectiveness, and alignment.
• Lead projects to simplify workflows, clarify decision ownership, and reduce duplication across global, regional, and local teams.
• Partner with Learning & Development to design capability‑building programs…