Head of Manufacturing Strategy and Operations

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Every member of Gilead’s team plays a critical role in the discovery and development of life-changing scientific innovations. Our employees are our greatest asset as we work to achieve our bold ambitions, and we’re looking for the next wave of passionate and ambitious people ready to make a direct impact.

We believe every employee deserves a great leader. People Leaders are the cornerstone to the employee experience at Gilead and Kite. As a people leader now or in the future, you are the key driver in evolving our culture and creating an environment where every employee feels included, developed and empowered to fulfil their aspirations. Join Gilead and help create possible, together.

Gilead Sciences is currently seeking a Head of Manufacturing Strategy and Operations, who will design and develop an organization to centralize activities to support a complex network of 1,400 employees, at many locations across the globe, delivering medicines for Gilead’s clinical and commercial portfolio. It is foreseen that this role will manage a team of 10-20 employees with 4-5 direct reports.

This newly created function will provide oversight and direction for:

• Hiring, mentoring, and developing team members within the organization. Sets performance goals and holds employees accountable for their performance. Leads the performance and talent management processes for their organization consistent with Gilead policies and practice.
• Building and maintaining an organization culture consistent with the Gilead values and leadership commitments, with an added emphasis on quality and safety.
• Developing a digital strategy for the Manufacturing organization in collaboration with the PDM and corporate teams having responsibilities for digital, Information Technology, Operations Technology, and data analytics.
• Identifying and defining the implementation of a modern manufacturing management system for Gilead, (e.g. Lean Manufacturing) and co-ordination with similar efforts across PDM.
• Defining the organizational and operational strategy for the Manufacturing organization. Must include defining the process for periodic review and leading the Manufacturing LT through that process. Define and deliver on the projects identified as part of the Manufacturing strategy. Lead the collaboration with PDM Network Strategy and Project Management teams.
• Define and implement metrics to drive visibility to the operational performance of the Manufacturing network, definition and maintenance of resource models to support the sites, functions and PDM portfolio management, and leadership of the Operational and Capital budgeting process (including a multi-year view). Providing centralized resource management for Manufacturing resources defined in G.Plan (Planisware) to include updating templates, providing program specific resource models, creating portfolio-wide resource models, and scenarios for demand and supply planning.
• The opportunity to design, build, and lead a high-performing organization to drive strategic initiatives and centralize activities in support of Manufacturing’s global product, pipeline, and people goals.
• The delivery of strategic innovation for global Manufacturing by creating a vibrant cross-functional ecosystem that supports agile empowered teams. Scanning the external environment to develop a roadmap to define where and when we invest.
• Management of purchase orders, invoice reconciliation, procurement and planning processes and other logistics and business processes needed to support the interaction with contract manufacturing organizations.

In addition, the lead will serve as a strategic thought partner to…