Director, Regional Commercial Excellence – Marketing and L&D

Director, Regional Commercial Excellence – Marketing and L&D

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We’re here for one reason and one reason only – to cure cancer. Every moment is dedicated to developing treatments and every action moves us one step closer to our goal. We’ve made incredible scientific breakthroughs and our pioneering personalized CAR T-cell therapies have changed the paradigm. But we're not finished yet.

Join Kite, as we make even bigger advances in cancer therapies, and help shape where our business and medical science goes next.

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.

Job Description

Kite, a Gilead Company, is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the development of innovative cancer immunotherapies. The company focuses on chimeric antigen receptor and T cell receptor engineered cell therapies.

Everyone at Kite is grounded by one common goal – curing cancer. Every day, we aim to establish a direct line between that purpose and our day-to-day work.

We are creating Kite together, with the recognition that the best teams are built by the best people. We maintain an attitude of curiosity, and creativity with each challenge as we develop a new market for cancer therapies. We appreciate and respect one another, and most importantly, we don’t take success for granted.

We are seeking a Director, Regional Commercial Excellence – Marketing and L&D with responsibility for the Kite International region. This key role will involve supporting country brand leads to drive effective development, implementation and delivery of Global brand strategy and marketing tactics across the region. The role will also collaborate extensively across functions within this region to ensure effective development, implementation, delivery and monitoring of Cell Therapy training programs in line with country-specific needs.

The position reports to the General Manager International and is based on site in Santa Monica, CA.

Key Responsibilities

Marketing

• Work closely with Global brand leads, and country marketing leads to support the development and implementation of brand specific strategies and tactics at the regional and local level

• Identify and develop regional tactics and support initiatives to drive launch success and Kite CAR-T brand performance in the international region

• Drive consistency of Brand messaging across the international region, ensuring alignment with Global strategy

• Drive excellence in commercial efforts, ensure performance tracking / monitoring and plan follow up actions as necessary

• Ensure learnings and best practices from regional launches shared and implemented by affiliates

• Manage agency relationships for adaptation of promotional deliverables

• Ensure marketing activities are in compliance with international regulatory and legal requirements

Training – Learning and Development

• Design, develop, and facilitate any local implementation and roll‑out of Cell Therapy training programs for both office‑based and field‑facing Commercial roles in the international region

• Partner with country‑level functional leadership teams to align tactics to local business needs and competency requirements

• Identify specific training needs and ensure the development of high‑quality new and ongoing training interventions

• Utilize high level scientific acumen to translate complex scientific concepts into impactful messages to support local customer engagement strategy implementation

• Align closely with Cell Therapy brand leads (and their brand/customer strategies) in the development and implementation of brand‑specific training programs

• Closely align with Medical Leads to support market readiness and efforts concerning Kite product differentiation

• Assist local teams to execute training implementation by supporting planning, logistics management,…