Senior Manager, Business Strategy & Operations

$139,995 - $181,170/Yr

Gilead Sciences - Foster City, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Foster City, CA

Chemical Manufacturing

About the position

The Senior Manager, Business Strategy & Operations at Gilead Sciences plays a crucial role in the Clinical Trial Capabilities (CTC) organization, focusing on driving strategic and operational improvements within Clinical Operations. This position involves managing multiple projects, serving as a project manager for complex initiatives, and ensuring the successful implementation of processes that enhance clinical trial execution in a highly regulated environment.

Responsibilities

• Serve as Project Manager for assigned initiatives/projects and working groups, ensuring progression to achieve timelines.
• Act as execution implementation lead to ensure completed initiatives are adopted and embedded as ClinOps ways of working.
• Allocate to new/existing ClinOps and non-ClinOps led workstreams/initiatives to provide input and drive key processes from a ClinOps perspective.
• Report on study CRO/Vendor sourcing strategy and headcount resourcing.
• Review and recommend changes to Clinical Operations process management/improvement and associated procedural documentation in collaboration with business process owners and stakeholders.
• Provide direction to study teams and stakeholders on initiative recommendations in collaboration with other CTC sub-functions.
• Drive standardization and the adoption of best practices across the Clinical Operations organization.

Requirements

• 6+ years of relevant experience in Clinical Operations/project management or process improvement with a Bachelor's degree.
• 4+ years of relevant experience in Clinical Operations/project management or process improvement with a Master's degree.
• Thorough knowledge of FDA, EMA, and other applicable national regulations, such as ICH guidelines and GCP.
• Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• Ability to analyze problems and logically structure problem-solving strategies.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience working with one or more therapeutic areas and managing clinical trials in varying stages of drug development.
• Familiarity with project/process improvement methodologies such as Lean Six Sigma.

Benefits

• Company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans.
• Discretionary annual bonus.
• Discretionary stock-based long-term incentives.
• Paid time off.