Manager, Innovation Development

At Gilead, we’re creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years, we’ve tackled diseases such as HIV, viral hepatitis, COVID-19 and cancer – working relentlessly to develop therapies that help improve lives and to ensure access to these therapies across the globe. We continue to fight against the world’s biggest health challenges, and our mission requires collaboration, determination and a relentless drive to make a difference.

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.

Job Description

Position Overview

Innovation, Digital & External Partnerships (IDEP) is a core function within Gilead's Global Regulatory Affairs organization. IDEP acts as a critical strategic partner by providing process improvement through innovation and digital solutions for regulatory business partners and stakeholders for all regulatory-related activities. This includes partnering with Regulatory Affairs and other business functions (e.g., Clinical Operations, Patient Safety, Quality, RA CMC) to interpret and analyze business needs, processes, and specifications to develop, enhance, and maintain regulatory information management processes, systems capabilities, and outputs to support global regulatory activities and meet health authority requirements.

One strategic component of IDEP is to provide innovative digital solutions that support the global RA and related business processes across internal and external systems. The IDEP Innovation team designs, develops, tests, maintains, and improves digital solutions, which involves additional responsibilities for analyzing and evolving systems capabilities, and partnering with other Gilead development systems and information technology groups to enhance and simplify the overall user workflow and effort for time consuming tasks. The IDEP Innovation team defines and sets the digital strategy for Global Regulatory Affairs. The IDEP Innovation team also supports ongoing maintenance and management of existing solutions for various regulatory activities.

You will help lead innovation development for IDEP Innovation, which may include complex business process design or improvement, automation and technology strategy, platform development, end user support, and/or data management. You may manage one or more direct reports, which will include offshore innovation and automation development resources. You will work with your manager to define technical objectives for IDEP Innovation. You will investigate technical project feasibility and provide input into project cost, benefit estimates, and project resource needs. Where applicable, you will coordinate infrastructure requirements with other development systems and/or IT partners. You will work directly with internal customers to diagnose business processes and technical needs of increasing complexity. You will author automation process, business process and technical documentation when needed. You will provide input into the automation and technology strategy for Global Regulatory Affairs.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Works with manager and internal user groups to define business and technical objectives for IDEP Innovation. Participates in setting the short- and longer-term digital and technology strategy for Global Regulatory Affairs.

• Takes a lead working with various regulatory functions and teams to evaluate their digital innovation and related needs.

• Helps evaluate current and future state digital innovative solutions to meet business needs and objectives, which can include business process design, data / information needs, data standards, data management and governance requirements, reporting functionalities, tools, templates, standards, systems, applications, and any other relevant technologies.

• Works with other development systems and/or IT partners to evaluate business needs, plan for changes, other updates, and/or maintenance, and create and implement roadmaps and action plans to address business needs.

• Reviews business specifications with internal users, stakeholders, and partners to ensure appropriateness and alignment.

• Conducts research into technical feasibility and/or provide input into project costs, benefits estimates, and project resource needs.

• Completes or oversees various IDEP Innovation activities to enable business needs and objectives to be met, such as business process design / redesign, updating and maintaining data in systems and applications, programming new or updated functionalities, reporting, or other tools, creating new or updated reporting functionalities, templates or other tools, troubleshooting data, systems, applications, or other related issues as needed.

• Documents or oversees documentation of changes / updates to regulatory business processes, databases, other systems, platforms, and/or applications according to business requirements and standards.

• Authors technical documentation such as system design specifications, architecture diagrams and related documents required by IT.

• May train regulatory systems and related users on systems, platforms, applications, functionalities, business process design, and other related areas.

• Manage one or more direct reports, which includes offshore development resources.

• Ensures own work complies with established practices, policies and processes, and any regulatory or other requirements.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and/or Data Science and/or Information Management with 6 years’ relevant experience.

OR

• Master’s degree in Computer Science and/or Data Science and/or Information Management with 4 years’ relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Significant software development, technical solution development, system configuration, project management, and business analysis experience in a business environment, including experience working with regulatory business processes and systems and applications.
• Experience with cloud-based end user solutions such as Veeva, Salesforce, Oracle, SAP, SharePoint Online functionality is strongly preferred
• Experience working with custom automations or RPA-based automations and associated tool set, such as Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere and UI Path is ideal
• Have a working and detailed knowledge of multiple computer programming languages including but not limited to Python, JavaScript, C, C++, C#, Visual Basic, HTML5, CSS, XML, SQL, PL/SQL and have delivered solutions for an enterprise environment for a minimum of 4 years.
• Have a working and detailed knowledge of web-based frameworks, including but not limited to LAMP, Django, Node.js, React.js, Angular.js, Selenium, Jenkins and associated components, such as Oracle and RabbitMQ / Celery.
• Demonstrated interest in automation technology, innovation, artificial intelligence (AWS Bedrock), machine learning, natural language processing and intelligent automation.
• Demonstrated ability to envision and drive successful automation solutions that are unique and appropriately scaled to fit “real world” operational problems.

• Demonstrated ability to describe processes in a clear, understandable manner to colleagues and non-technically minded users.
• Has significant knowledge of regulatory business processes, information, and technology requirements, regulatory requirements, and solutions to meet business needs.

• Demonstrated ability to be a fast learner.

• Demonstrated ability to be flexible and adaptable to change, to move between projects easily and provide support/expertise where needed.

• Demonstrates strong analytical thinking skills, attention-to-detail, strong communication and writing skills, project management skills and proficiencies with Microsoft Office suite, as evidenced through accomplishments in past roles.

• Strong communication and organizational skills.

• When needed, ability to travel.

People Leader Accountabilities:

• Create Inclusion - knowing the business value of diverse teams, modeling inclusion, and embedding the value of diversity in the way they manage their teams.
• Develop Talent - understand the skills, experience, aspirations and potential of their employees and coach them on current performance and future potential. They ensure employees are receiving the feedback and insight needed to grow, develop and realize their purpose.
• Empower Teams - connect the team to the organization by aligning goals, purpose, and organizational objectives, and holding them to account. They provide the support needed to remove barriers and connect their team to the broader ecosystem.

Gilead Sciences Inc. is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment, and is dedicated to fostering an inclusive work environment comprised of diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences. Employment decisions regarding recruitment and selection will be made without discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, genetic information or characteristic, gender identity and expression, veteran status, or other non-job related characteristics or other prohibited grounds specified in applicable federal, state and local laws.

Our environment respects individual differences and recognizes each employee as an integral member of our company. Our workforce reflects these values and celebrates the individuals who make up our growing team.

Gilead provides a work environment free of harassment and prohibited conduct. We promote and support individual differences and diversity of thoughts and opinion.

For Current Gilead Employees and Contractors:

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About Us

Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company that has pursued and achieved breakthroughs in medicine for more than three decades, with the goal of creating a healthier world for all people. The company is committed to advancing innovative medicines to prevent and treat life-threatening diseases, including HIV, viral hepatitis and cancer. Gilead operates in more than 35 countries worldwide, with headquarters in Foster City, California.