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Sr. Manager, Tax Technology
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
Gilead Sciences, Inc. is seeking a highly experienced Senior Manager of Tax Technology to join our tax team. This role will be the go-to person for maturing a variety of existing tax reporting processes. This role will partner closely with tax subject matter experts (SMEs) in international tax, transfer pricing, federal, and state/local tax to design and implement scalable, repeatable, and auditable processes that meet evolving tax requirements. The ideal candidate is passionate about process efficiency, understands how to translate tax requirements into practical workflows, and thrives in environments where they can drive clarity and improvement.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with Tax SMEs to understand current-state processes and identify opportunities for improvement
- Design future-state processes that are scalable, repeatable, and auditable, with a focus on operational efficiency, data integrity, and data readiness
- Document processes and controls such that an Analyst can execute the process as well as to support internal and external audit requirements
- Establish and enforce technical standards, best practices, and internal control requirements (including SOX compliance)
- Maintain processes including deploying enhancements as business data changes or tax requirements evolve
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders on financial systems governance and tax related matters
Basic Qualifications
- 8+ Years with BS/BA or 6+ Years with MS/MA or MBA
- 8+ years of relevant experience in tax operations or tax technology
- 3+ years in a global publicly traded corporate tax department
- Strong working experience with data including a solid understanding of data structures, data integrity, and the ability to troubleshoot data-related problems
- Strong process improvement and business process design
- Advanced experience with Microsoft Suite including Excel, Visio, and Teams
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with SAP, OneSource, and an ETL software (e.g., Alteryx and/or Power Query) highly preferred
- Demonstrated curiosity and initiative in learning about emerging technologies and applications to Tax
- Proven ability to translate business needs into technical requirements and process designs
- Strong communication skills with the ability to “hear what people need” to uncover root causes
- Self-starter with a passion for process improvement and ownership
- Proven project management skills including managing and prioritizing multiple simultaneous projects
The salary range for this position is: $157,590.00 – $203,940.00. Gilead considers a variety of factors when determining base compensation, including experience, qualifications, and geographic location. These considerations mean actual compensation will vary. This position may also be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus, discretionary stock-based long-term incentives (eligibility may vary based on role), paid time off, and a benefits package. Benefits include company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans*.
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Associate Director, Marketing Training Excellence
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
Gilead’s mission is to discover, develop, and deliver therapies that will improve the lives of patients with life-threatening illnesses worldwide. As an Associate Director, Marketing Training Excellence (reporting to the Executive Director of Global Commercial Learning and Development) responsibilities involve leading aspects of training for marketing that link to marketing competencies. This will include designing and delivering global marketing training content and conducting training for all affiliates, including the US. The candidate will be accountable for training content creation, conducting global training needs assessments, training design, training development, training delivery, and training evaluation. This position is based On Site in Foster City, CA.
The successful candidate will be a dynamic, experienced individual with a strong track record of marketing and/or marketing training experience in the pharmaceutical or biopharmaceutical industry. They must have the proven ability to manage complex projects effectively, influence stakeholders without authority, effectively network across the organization, and communicate with senior leaders, all within a fast-moving, challenging, and dynamic Commercial environment.
Essential Duties and Job Functions:
- Advanced experience in curriculum development, project management, executive presence, facilitation expertise, and a deep understanding of adult learning principles.
- Develop/enhance fundamental marketing training that is fit-for-future.
- Collaborate with global stakeholders (with US being a major stakeholder) to define desired performance outcomes and the required behaviors, skills, and knowledge needed by different roles to deliver them.
- Work with external vendors to design and build new global content.
- Incorporate motivation, creative, and interactive training techniques to enhance the training experience and maximize learning and retention.
- Ensure that strategic plans, goals, and objectives are documented, communicated, reviewed, and evaluated continuously.
- Ensure stakeholders are engaged throughout training development, continuously incorporating feedback to ensure relevance and inclusion.
- Proactively engage with Commercial groups to resolve issues, conflicts, and interdependencies
- Respect Gilead’s core values of integrity, accountability, teamwork, excellence, and inclusion.
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree and Ten Years’ Experience
OR
Masters’ Degree and Eight Years’ Experience
OR
PhD and Two Years’ Experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- Demonstrated ability to develop and deliver compelling training to large audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to connect and align stakeholders of diverse backgrounds.
- Excellent influencing skills: managing without direct power skills.
- Strong self leadership, self-direction, comfort, and experience tackling ambiguous and complex problems.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to interact with, focus, negotiate, resolve conflict, and drive consensus among individuals from various cultures and disciplines.
- Strong executive presence with the ability to command respect through the exercise of sound business judgment and clear decision-making.
- Proven ability to lead collaborative and creative problem-solving and overcome resistance or barriers.
- Demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional teams or work groups.
- Demonstrated excellence in program management, project management, change management, and managing multiple projects/priorities.
- Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Senior Manager, Data, Performance & Reporting
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
Knowledge:
- Able to develop solutions to a wide range of complex problems, which require the regular use of ingenuity and innovation.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills. Able to create written communication that is properly structured providing clear, concise messages that draw well supported conclusions with some guidance from line manager where appropriate.
- Strong collaboration skills with internal and external stakeholders.
- Good organizational and time management skills, including working knowledge of project management tools and techniques.
- In depth understanding and application of relevant principles, concepts, practices, and standards, along with an in-depth knowledge of industry practices.
- Working knowledge of relevant regulatory guidance, including pharmaceutical GMPs and GDP.
- Able to apply established organizational policies, and interpret, execute, and recommend modifications to department policies and procedures as needed.
Basic Qualifications:
- Ph.D. and 6+ years experience; or
- Masters’ Degree and 6+ years experience; or
- Bachelor’s Degree and 8+ years experience; or
- Associates Degree and 10+ years experience; or
- High School Degree and 12+ years experience
- Experience in pharmaceutical operations/cGMP environment highly desirable.
- Excellent knowledge of logistics operations within Gilead and understands external best practices on a global basis.
Specific Job Responsibilities:
Supplier Performance Management (estimated 70% of role)
- Has a track record of building relationships with suppliers to deploy Supplier Relationship Management and ensure suppliers are delivering Gilead objectives.
- Can partner with Logistics Procurement to engage suppliers.
- Will participate in the drafting of supplier agreements in conjunction with Procurement & Legal to ensure contracts terms and conditions comply with corporate and purchasing guidelines.
- Demonstrated track record of driving supplier performance, with some guidance.
Performance Reporting (estimated 30% of role)
- Has a working understanding of logistics KPI’s; what to measure, standard definitions, and appropriate targets.
- Has experience of real-time performance reporting tools such as Tableau or Power BI.
- Can deploy & deliver performance reporting of a suite of logistics KPI’s on a monthly basis.
General
- Process mindset with the ability to deliver process best practice and standardization.
- Works on problems of moderate to advanced complexity where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangible variables.
- Can prioritize to support execution of a series of initiatives of differing levels of priority.
- Can work with cross-functional stakeholders to agree priorities.
- Can clearly articulate priorities and progress to a range of stakeholders, including Exec. Director & Vice President level.
- Creates and maintains a positive working environment to ensure high productivity.
- Develops and implements policies and procedures to ensure that Gilead Global Logistics team are aligned with Good Distribution Practice and meet all relevant regulatory requirements.
- Experience of working within a major logistics organization would be beneficial
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 Core Values
- Integrity (Doing What’s Right)
- Inclusion (Encouraging Diversity)
- Teamwork (Working Together)
- Excellence (Being Your Best)
- Accountability (Taking Personal Responsibility)
Senior Director, Commercial S&OP Governance & Reporting
Job Description
Senior Director, Commercial S&OP Governance & Reporting, Foster City, CA
Knowledge:
- Able to develop solutions to a wide range of complex problems, which require the regular use of ingenuity and innovation.
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Able to create written communication that is properly structured providing clear, concise messages that draw well supported conclusions.
Strong negotiation skills. - Good organizational and time management skills, including working knowledge of basic project management tools and techniques.
- Ability to interact effectively with senior management.
- In depth understanding and application of relevant principles, concepts, practices, and standards, along with an in depth knowledge of industry practices.
- Solid working knowledge of relevant regulatory guidance, including pharmaceutical GMPs and ICH Q7A.
- Able to apply established organizational policies, and interpret, execute, and recommend modifications to department policies and procedures as needed.
- May require familiarity with the technologies, strengths, and weaknesses of a wide variety of fine chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturers worldwide.
- Demonstrates an in-depth understanding of the financial aspects of Supply Chain operations.
Demonstrates in-depth knowledge and proficiency across multiple practices within Supply Chain department, to understand, coordinate and communicate across the competing demands of each.
Specific Education & Experience Requirements:
- 10+ years relevant experience in related field and a BS or BA;
Or
- 8+ years of relevant experience and a MA/MBA.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in pharmaceutical operations/cGMP environment highly desirable.
- May require experience purchasing custom chemicals, planning pharmaceutical development activities, and managing the third-party synthesis of intermediates/Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients
Specific Job Responsibilities:
- Works on problems of moderate to advanced complexity where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangible variables.
- Provides leadership, direction and management of a team, to support execution of the Supply Chain strategy.
- Provides supervision, training, guidance and performance management to department personnel.
- Creates and maintains a positive working environment to ensure high productivity, employee engagement and performance.
- Exercises independent judgment in developing methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
- Develops and implements policies and procedures for the operation of Supply Chain activities, ensuring all relevant regulatory requirements are met.
- Develops and implements strategies and goals for specific products or projects.
Creates and effectively communicates supplier, subcontractor and/or vendor agreements and opportunities to the organization. - Implements and maintains material and production control systems, policies, processes and procedures ensuring that a controlled flow of approved materials timed to meet production requirements.
- May serve as liaison between the company and the various governmental agencies and/or audit agencies as required.
- Reviews, and/or implements changes to controlled documents as needed. May author sections of regulatory documents.
- Negotiates large contracts involving substantial financial amounts. Monitors cost, schedules and performance aspects of major contracts. Drives cost savings through direct negotiation and other sourcing methods.
- May execute supplier agreements in conjunction with Legal and internal clients to ensure contracts terms and conditions are in compliance with corporate and purchasing guidelines.
- Conducts formal business reviews with key suppliers, subcontractors and/or vendors to discuss performance on a regular basis. Manages against contract performance to ensure that agreed upon cost, service, quality, schedule and flexibility goals are met.
- May manage outsourced manufacturing activities.
- Compiles information from periodicals, catalogs, and other sources to keep informed on relevant market and competitor information.
Site Quality Head
Job Description
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.
Site Quality Head (Grade 34)
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Executive Director, Site Quality Head is responsible for leading all Quality functions at the pharmaceutical manufacturing site, ensuring compliance with global regulatory standards, driving a culture of quality and continuous improvement, and serving as the primary quality authority for the site. This role is accountable for the strategic direction, operational execution, and leadership of Quality Assurance, Quality Control, and Compliance teams.
FOCUS AREAS
Quality Leadership & Strategy
- Develop and execute the site’s quality strategy aligned with corporate objectives and regulatory expectations.
- Serve as the site’s quality representative to global quality leadership and regulatory agencies.
Compliance & Regulatory Affairs
- Ensure site-wide compliance with cGMP, FDA, EMA, ICH, and other applicable regulations.
- Lead regulatory inspections and audits, including preparation, hosting, and response management.
Operational Oversight
- Oversee Quality Assurance (QA), Quality Control (QC), and Compliance functions.
- Ensure timely release of products, materials, and batches in accordance with quality standards.
People & Culture
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing quality team.
- Foster a culture of accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement.
Risk Management & Decision-Making
- Serve as the final quality decision-maker for critical quality issues, deviations, and product disposition.
- Lead risk assessments and implement mitigation strategies.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Technical Development to ensure quality is embedded across all site operations.
- Represent Quality in site leadership forums and strategic initiatives.
REQUIREMENTS
You have:
- Experience over a broad set of Quality sub-functions with extensive knowledge of industry best practices and trends.
- Ability to quickly establish credibility with diverse audiences and be perceived as a leader.
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills are required. Must possess excellent influencing skills.
- Significant in-depth understanding of business objectives and how they translate into quality priorities.
- Must have the experience and confidence necessary to work with senior executives, and the ability to build rapport with employees at all levels.
- Must be able to exercise judgment and independently determine and take appropriate action where precedent may not exist.
- In-depth understanding and application of GMP principles, concepts, practices and standards in the US and internationally.
- Must be able to develop and improve complex concepts, techniques, and standards and new applications based on quality principles and theories.
- Demonstrated an ability to develop a vision for Quality functions and have shaped the capabilities of the function to fulfill that vision.
- Strong hiring and staff development skills, with the ability to motivate and engage individuals.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- 16+ years’ experience with a BS OR 14 Years’ experience with a MS, MBA, PHD or PharmD in a related field OR 8+ years’ experience with an MD degree in related field
- Prior experience in a Quality Assurance (QA) role, with a solid understanding of QA principles and practices.
- Extensive knowledge and experience in Biopharmaceutical or Pharmaceutical quality control. Stays ahead of shifting trends in industry.
- Prior senior leadership experience required.
- Must think critically and creatively and be able to work independently to determine appropriate resources for resolution of problems.
- Strong organizational and planning skills.
- Shows excellent verbal and written communication skills and collaborative interpersonal skills.
