Associate Director Marketing Viral Hepatitis

Gilead Sciences is continuing to hire for all open roles. Our interview process may be conducted virtually and some roles will be asked to temporarily work from home. Over the coming weeks and months, we will be implementing a phased approach to bringing employees back to site to ensure the health and safety of our teams.

**For Current Gilead Employees and Contractors:
**Job Description**:**This role will strategically develop and execute market expansion strategy & tactics for HCV & HBV in related-High Risk Populations (HRP) and channels/accounts like Addiction Centers, Blood Banks, Migration Centers, Prisons.**
**Reporting to the BUD. The Marketing Assoc Director will establish appropriate strategies, tactics and metrics to support the commercial teams on HCV elimination/micro elimination.**
**He/she will provide strong leadership skills with an ability to set a lead change, and to lead and mentor others. This role is responsible for overseeing the hiring and management of the PSP manager.**

**Essential Duties & Job Functions**:

- **This position will be responsible for marketing activities for Viral Hepatitis**
- **Lead the development and execution of brand plans and implement cross collaboration strategies for HCV elimination and micro-elimination**
- **Design new and innovative approaches and tactics to tackle the topic of HCV elimination within an environment of extreme challenge and limited resources for health care providers.**
- **Foster sustainable and reliable partnerships with key stakeholders for HCV elimination to translate ideas into feasible and efficient elimination initiatives**
- **Establish a HCV elimination heatmap: Rehab/drug counselling centers, blood banks and HCV treating physicians and other sites of care for vulnerable patients and close monitoring the advances and redirect the strategy**
- **Inspire the team to implement and scale-up best practice examples of micro-elimination projects to enhance screening, diagnosis and access to HCV care in the country.**
- **Implement marketing strategies focused on physicians, general population and governments to foster the HCV elimination plans**
- **Transport sense of urgency to plan and roll-out local elimination strategies and support initiatives with thorough project management skills.**
- **Ensure smooth, collaborative efforts in both day to day and long-term business execution with key internal stakeholders: Medical Affairs, Regulatory Affairs, Clinical Operations, Human Resources, and Market Access, in field teams and other colleagues to look at the development and implementation of HCV Elimination/Micro elimination plans.**
- **Develop and implement patient support programs to foster screening, diagnosis and linkage to care**
- **Demonstrates command of and aptitude for traditional and non-traditional marketing channels including, but not limited to: print, digital, social, in-office, out of home, and broadcast**
- **Effectively manages multiple agency partners to produce deliverables on strategy, within timelines, and budget, while also measuring results.**
- **Analyses moderately complex problems and provides logical recommendations; leads any required action planning.**
- **Provides strategic input on key planning teams such as: sales meetings, sales training and medical education programs.**
- **Has responsibility for managing an assigned marketing budget and project timelines.**
- **Ensures that all marketing activities follow regulatory and legal requirements.**
- **Sets priorities in circumstances of continued complexity and conflicting requirements.**

**Competencies / Skills / Knowledge**:

- **Proven project management skills including timeline and budget management, planning, prioritization, objective setting, meeting management, plan execution and performance management**
- **Must possess the ability to maintain, develop, and utilize a level of product and therapeutic disease knowledge to promote the appropriate use of Gilead products**
- **Must be curious and possess an aptitude for creative thinking and problem solving**
- **Must be able to adapt and thrive within a fast-paced and dynamic environment**
- **Previous experience in marketing research and/or pharmaceutical sales is a plus.**
- **In-depth knowledge and experience in franchise-specific market is preferred.**
- **Must have the ability to conduct analysis and use complex analytical tools.**
- **Must have a demonstrated excellence in project management and effectively managing multiple projects/priorities.**
- **Strategic thinker with ability to formulate, develop and execute development strategy.**
- **Strong presence with ability to command respect through exercise of sound business judgment and clear decision-making is required.**
- **Extensive relevant experience in a similar role in a biotech/pharma fast-paced environment. Desirable experience on Viral Hepatitis TA**
- **Strong experience developing, implementing and executing patient support programs*