Job Description

Job Description

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

The Patient Access Solutions Support Program team strives to deliver exceptional patient treatment experiences across multiple brands and therapeutic areas. We empower patients to realize their full treatment potential through support programs encompassing HIV, Liver and Oncology products.

Position Overview:

The Associate Director will be part of the Patient Access Solutions team and will be responsible for developing access and reimbursement materials to support the Gilead HIV Prevention Field Reimbursement Manager (FRM) team. This role will lead the direction and execution of FRM access and reimbursement materials, resources, and tools, ensuring alignment with market access strategy to address educational needs of the patient and healthcare providers office staff. Additionally, this position will collaborate closely with internal stakeholders such as marketing, national account team, trade and FRM teams to develop FRM patient support educational materials and access and reimbursement communication and training plans to address ongoing reimbursement challenges.

This position responsible for the strategic oversight of the access and reimbursement resources for the HIV Prevention support program ensuring an effective provider experience. This leader needs to be able to design, plan, and pull through appropriate market-leading resources and tools ensuring efficient, effective, compliant execution and manage continuous improvements on an ongoing basis. To do so, the candidate will be required to have familiarity with the relevant customer/market needs and solutions, including a strong understanding of compliance as it relates to patient support programs and Field Reimbursement Manager (FRM) teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Creation and Execution of FRM Materials and Tools: Partner with key internal stakeholders to create and roll-out strategic marketing materials for the FRM team to achieve Access and Reimbursement goals. Lead effort to roll out materials to FRM team.
• Strategic Communications: Ensure materials are aligned with support program positioning, messaging, aimed at patients and healthcare providers, ensuring alignment with patient support experiences and strategic imperatives.
• Analytics: Support FRM digital resources, portals, and tools for effective support of patient and provider access and reimbursement challenges.
• Field Team Support and Collaboration: Collaborate with the Patient Support team, FRM team and Access and Reimbursement (A&R) colleagues to execute strategies, incorporating insights from payer landscapes, buy-and-bill models, and specialty pharmacy acquisition.
• Agency and Partner Management: Work with Patient Support team to oversee agency relationships to drive creative excellence, ensuring quality deliverables that align with market access materials.
• Annual Planning: Lead the annual planning process for patient and provider resources, identifying barriers to patient access and developing innovative solutions.
• Governance and Compliance: Collaborate with Market Access, National Accounts, Legal, Medical, Regulatory, Brand and Trade teams, to ensure a comprehensive governance process for FRM Materials and initiatives.
• Ensure all activities are conducted in compliance with relevant regulations and ethical guidelines related to patient access and reimbursement.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field is required.
• Experience: At least 10+ years of marketing experience with a proven track record in strategic leadership roles.
• Domain Expertise: Strong expertise in Patient and HCP support programs, Access and Reimbursement strategies, drug acquisition channels, and medical and pharmacy benefit design.
• Analytical Skills: Exceptional analytical skills with the ability to translate complex business challenges into actionable strategies.
• Leadership Ability: Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional teams and influencing across the organization without formal authority.
• Communication Skills: Excellent written and oral communication skills, capable of interacting and building relationships at all organizational levels.
• Stakeholder Management: Proficient in managing various internal and external partnerships, maintaining effective relationships with agencies and vendors.
• In-depth knowledge of health care reimbursement practices, services, technologies, and related compliance and regulatory requirements.

Expected Competencies:

• Dealing with ambiguity
• Proven experience developing and fully executing patient access programs.
• Exceptional written, verbal and presentation skills
• Vendor Management
• Building and leading teams
• Leading without authority
• Project management
• Strategic planning and execution
• Analytical thinking and problem solving
• Comfortable with data analytics and presentation of findings
• Financial budget management
• Effective organizational management
• Strong negotiation skills
• Strong organizational skills; attention to detail
• Proficient competency using Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Ability to multitask and manage multiple parallel projects.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision.

The salary range for this position is: $182,070.00 - $235,620.00. 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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* Eligible employees may participate in benefit plans, subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans.

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