Director, Medical Affairs

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Job Description
 

This role serves as the GMAVI coordinator to harmonize strategy, planning and execution of medical society engagement and cross-functional congress plans across GMAVI therapeutic areas and geographies.

The role operates as a senior individual contributor and partners closely with medical affairs & cross‑functional stakeholders to maximize the strategic impact and return on investment of GMAVI’s congress and society engagements.
The successful candidate will be a strategic and creative thinker with a track record of execution success, cross-functional leadership, cross-functional partnership, with the ability to foster an inclusive environment and with an enterprise mindset. This role will be the primary liaison between GMAVI and the Congress Center of Excellence within Global Commercial Strategic Operations, driving alignment, transparency, and effective decision‑making across a complex, matrixed environment, while the general strategic direction of the conference and scientific leadership remains with the TA.

We are pleased to share that Gilead’s Stockley Park and Holborn offices are planning to come together at a new London headquarters at 1 Triton Square, NW1, from approximately Q2 2027. Applicants should consider this planned location change when applying for this role. Gilead operates a flexible working policy, offering a balanced approach with two days of remote working and three days working onsite. 

Specific Job Requirements

• Coordinate the development of a clear GMAVI multi-year medical society and congress strategy, aligned to global priorities across Virology and Inflammation and in close collaboration with the global medical affairs & cross-functional stakeholders.

• Coordinate the development of clear cross-functional congress objectives for prioritized congresses across GMAVI, aligned with XF conference strategy and in collaboration with global medical affairs, execution teams and cross-functional stakeholders

• Serve as the primary GMAVI liaison to priority global medical societies – in close collaboration with the respective global medical TA teams / Franchises / Execution teams - providing a single, coherent point of coordination for strategy, engagement principles, and governance alignment.

• Act as an advisor for the GMSO team to coordinate funding opportunities across societies aligned with strategy.

• Serve as the primary GMAVI interface to the Congress Center of Excellence within Global Commercial Strategic Operations, ensuring strong cross‑functional alignment and clear operating models for congresses.

• Provide clarity on leadership expectations for Gilead’s presence at prioritized congresses across GMAVI.

• Act as a facilitator for congress and society prioritization, trade‑offs, and strategic approaches, with advice from cross-functional and GMA stakeholders, with escalation to the leadership team for final approval as needed and in compliance with Medical Affairs governance, regulatory requirements, and company policies.

• Provide strategic oversight and guidance to reduce duplication, friction, and late‑stage escalation related to congress planning and engagement.

• Establish and steward standards, governance, and ways of working for Tier 1 congresses and associated societies.

• Partner with GMA & cross-functional conference leads to ensure Tier 1 conference tactics are planned and executed in line with strategy and in a coherent way, to avoid misalignment and to ensure Gilead shows up as 1 team at Tier 1 conferences.

• Translate learnings and insights from congresses and societies into strategic considerations for future GMAVI medical planning and alignment.

• Out of scope: This role does not own hands‑on congress logistics or operational execution of tactics, which is led by assigned GMAVI & cross-functional leads per conference.

Essential Skills

• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in a matrixed, global environment and demonstrate cross-functional leadership.

• Strong strategic and creative thinking and prioritization skills, with comfort navigating ambiguity and complexity.

• Resilience

• Proven ability to build alignment across senior stakeholders with differing objectives.

• Ability to foster an inclusive environment with an enterprise mindset

• Clear, concise, and influential communication skills at senior internal and external levels.

• Problem solver with a passion for identifying innovative solutions to complex problems

• High standards of judgment, integrity, and compliance within Medical Affairs activities.

• Collaborative leadership style with strong relationship‑building and negotiation capability.

• Ability to manage different projects and priorities simultaneously with high standards and eye for detail, through well-trained prioritization skills and sense of urgency.

Education & Experience & Location

• Extensive experience within Medical Affairs or closely related functions in the biopharmaceutical industry.

• Demonstrated ownership of global scientific congress strategy and engagement.

• Proven experience establishing or operating within congress governance, standards, or center‑of‑excellence models.

• Comfortable with uncertainty and change, and willing to drive change amongst teams that include numerous cross-functional senior leaders

• Ability to independently deliver quality results in a timely manner

• Track record of effective external engagement with senior medical societies or congress bodies.

• Experience influencing senior stakeholders and driving outcomes in complex, matrixed organizations

• Travel: Moderate global travel (~20%), with increased activity during major congress periods.

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)

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