Description
Director - Global Medical Affairs – HIV
Medical Affairs - HIV is a key position serving the Global Medical Affairs teams, supporting Gilead’s efforts towards Ending the HIV Epidemic for Everyone Everywhere.
This position will report to the Executive Director, Strategic Implementation & Franchise - Global Medical Affairs HIV. This individual will be leading community focused activities, collaborating with affiliates globally, other functions within Global teams and external community stakeholders.
The Director - Global Medical Affairs - HIV will support efforts to plan and execute a robust scientific communication and education plan with a broad range of key external stakeholders, ensuring the creation of high-quality scientific content such as slide decks, medical presentations at conferences, advisory boards, and other meetings.
Essential Duties and Job Functions
1. Serves as Medical Affairs strategy lead for Community, working cross portfolio and being the liaison with Public Affairs and Patient Focused and Implementation Science teams.
2. Works with affiliates to advance medical affairs engagement with PWH & PWBP, collaboration with community organizations when appropriate, ensuring medical affairs person-centric approaches to support Gilead’s HIV portfolio and pipeline, and above brand efforts required to end the HIV epidemic.
3. Generates assets and content for use in affiliates by field teams when engaging community representatives.
4. Supports phase IV research, keeping focus on on community role/implementation.
5. Working with existing frameworks, gathers insights from community representatives and key organizations relevant to medica affairs and synthesize findings and recommendations feeding knowledges to the remainder of the organization.
6. Maintains regular communication with GMA teams to remain abreast of what the challenges and opportunities are in regard to community engagement, and to provide tools that meet their needs.
7. Collates information on initiatives developed/rolled out at local level and elevates local best practice to global as appropriate.
8. Collaborates in the development and execution of HIV Global Medical Affairs Plans of Action in alignment with ISPs.
9. Attends major conferences and helps coordinate global medical affairs initiatives.
10. Organizes and supports the execution of Medical Educational initiatives.
11. Provides support to affiliates, holistically, with a cross portfolio approach.
12. Manages projects to completion, anticipating obstacles and difficulties that may arise, resolving them in a collaborative and compliant manner.
13. Assists in the medical review and certification (if applicable) of both branded and unbranded materials developed by HIV global teams.
Competencies/Skills/Knowledge
14. Ability to embrace Gilead’s patient-centric values and leadership commitments, including the highest ethical and compliance standards.
15. Strategic mindset with a focus on collaboration and excellence.
16. Excellent organizational skills including attention to detail and prioritization.
17. Experience in working in an international environment.
18. Demonstrated ability to work within a collaborative, cross-functional environment with internal and external colleagues, including representatives of academia, research, and medical communities.
19. Strong communication skills; able to effectively present and discuss scientific data.
20. Ability to think strategically and align medical, public health, and commercial strategies.
21. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, being able to present data and ideas, and building relationships.
22. Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously and effectively prioritize workload.
23. Must be able to work with a level of autonomy and independence.
24. Excellent strategic thinking skills, with demonstrated ability to successfully lead the ideation, development of a plan and move to action.
25. Strong leadership and interpersonal skills.
Qualifications
26. MD, PharmD, DO, PA or PhD degree with at least 5 years of experience in HIV preferred.
27. 3-5+ years of experience in the biotechnology or pharmaceutical industries preferred.
28. Proven ability to work effectively in a highly matrixed structure.
29. Solid working knowledge of regulatory and compliance environment.
30. Ability to travel frequently (~30%).
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)
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