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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.\nEvery 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.\nWe 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.\nJob Description\nPOSITION OVERVIEW:\nGilead Sciences, Inc. is a leading biopharmaceutical company dedicated to advancing global health through scientific innovation. For over three decades, Gilead has been at the forefront of developing transformative therapies for life-threatening diseases, including HIV, viral hepatitis, and cancer. Headquartered in Foster City, California, Gilead operatesin more than 35 countries worldwide.\nAs part of our commitment to improving lives, we foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment where every individual is valued and empowered to contribute meaningfully. At Gilead, you will join a mission-driven team focused on discovering, developing, and delivering innovative therapeutics that make a real difference.\nWe are seekingan experienced and visionary Associate Director, Digital Marketing, Data & AI Lead (Ex-US) to join our Commercial IT organization. This strategic role is responsible fordefining and delivering the technology strategy, roadmap and execution of Digital Marketing, Content, Web, Analytics and AI capabilities across Gilead's Ex-US Commercial organisation. The successful candidate will act as a trusted technology partner to the business, driving digital and omnichannel engagement, data-driven decision making, and AI-enabled business transformation across global markets.\nOperating across a diverse affiliate landscape outside of the US - spanning EU5, Canada, Australia, the ACE and ICR clusters, and Japan - the role ensurescapabilities are both standardisedat the core and adaptable to individual market nuances. It owns the end-to-end lifecycle of Digital Marketing capabilities, including Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Content Management and Web platforms, ensuring scalable, compliantand business-focused solutions that enhance customer engagement and operational effectiveness.\nThis is a unique opportunity to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of digital, dataand AI capabilities at Gilead, contributing to our mission of creating a healthier world for all.\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES:\nServe as a strategic technology advisor to cross-functional business partners-including Commercial, andMedical Affairs,-across ex-US affiliates, translating complex business priorities into scalable, high-impact digital, data and AI solutions that drive measurable value.\n\nOwn and publish a multi-year roadmap for the Digital Marketing product portfolio, partnering with business product owners to identifyomnichannel integration and innovation opportunities.\n\nDefine and maintainthe strategic roadmap for Digital Marketing, Content, Web, Analytics and AI capabilities, collaborating with business stakeholdersandproduct owners.\n\nStreamline the omnichannel ecosystem across CRM, Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC)and web platforms, strengthening personalisationand consent management across affiliates.\n\nLead the evolution of Marketing Automation, AI-driven and real-time HCP engagement moving beyond static, batch-driven campaigns.\n\nLead the continuous evolution of Veeva Vault PromoMats, digital content management, and web capabilities (including DAM and Sitecore).\n\nScale Veeva Falcon AI capability for pre-MLR AI-assisted reviews across ex-US affiliates.\n\nImplement AI-assisted content creation (Content Studio) and agentic AI orchestration solutions across ex-US affiliates.\n\nOversee web platform initiatives such as personalisationand site migrations to standardiseddesign infrastructure, ensuring content and web solutions remaincompliant, scalable, and aligned to the target-state ecosystem architecture.\n\nEstablish reports and dashboards on omnichannel engagement and business-critical KPIs, leveragingAWS, Databricks and enterprise data platforms to enable advanced insights that support business performance measurement and decision making.\n\nLead the identification, developmentand scaling of AI capabilities across the Digital Marketing, Contentand Analytics portfolio.\n\nManage vendor and platform strategy across the AI landscape (e.g., Veeva, Salesforce AI roadmap vs. interim best-of-breed solutions), balancing near-term capability gaps against long-term strategic platform direction.\n\nManage cross-functional teams and vendor partnerships to deliver new platforms and features with agility, velocity, and quality, while optimisingcost and operational efficiency.\n\nCollaborate with sourcing and procurement teams on RFPs, vendor evaluations, contract readiness, and capability assessments, ensuring alignment with Gilead’s standards for quality, security, and compliance.\n\nFacilitate stakeholder engagement and change management, ensuring successful adoption of new technologiesthrough training, communication, business change managementand post-deployment optimisation.\n\nCollaborate extensively with Commercial, Medical, Market Access, Legal, Compliance, and Enterprise IT teams to deliver innovative digital, data and AI solutions that drive measurable business value across ex-US markets.\n\nMentor and develop team members, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous learning.\n\nREQUIREMENTS:\nWe are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. Please see the following for the qualifications and skills we seekfor this role.\nBasic Qualification\nAssociate's Degreeand Twelve Years' Experience OR Bachelor's Degree and Ten Years' Experience OR Master's Degree and Eight Years' Experience OR PhD and Two Years' Experience.\n\nPreferred Qualification\nExtensive experience in Digital Marketing, Commercial Technology, Data & Analytics and AI-enabled solutions, ideally within pharmaceutical, life sciences, or another regulated industry.\n\nStrong hands-on knowledge of Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Veeva Vault PromoMats, DAM, Sitecore, AWS, Databricks and modern digital platforms.\n\nDemonstrated experience delivering AI/GenAI solutions in a compliant environment, including familiarity with Responsible AI and MLR/content-review workflows.\n\nProven track recordleading digital transformation and technology strategy in a global, matrixed, multi-market environment.\n\nExperience in DevOps, developing product roadmaps, and managing complex cross-functional stakeholder relationships across business and IT.\n\nStrong understanding of data privacy, consent management, and regulatory compliance across multiple international markets.\n\nProven ability to manage Managed Service Providers and Systems Integrators, ensuring deliveryquality, governance, and vendor accountability.\n\nStrong leadership, communication, and vendor management skills, with a focus on delivering measurable business outcomes.\n\nAbility to operateeffectively in an environmentbalancing global standardisationwith local market flexibility.\n\nKey Competencies\nStrategic product ownership and roadmap leadership - translates business ambition into a clear, multi-year capability roadmap, prioritisescompeting demands, and drives delivery through to measurable outcomes.\n\nStakeholder engagement and influence in a matrixed organisation- builds trusted partnerships across business and IT, aligns diverse and sometimes competing affiliate needs, and influences senior leaders\n\nVendor and commercial management - selects, negotiateswith, and managesSystems Integrators, Managed Service Providers, and platform vendors, holding partners accountable for quality, cost, and delivery governance.\n\nCompliance and governance orientation - embeds enterprise governance, data privacy, consent, and Responsible AI standards into every solution, ensuring compliant delivery across multiple regulated markets.\n\nTechnical breadth and depth - fluent across Digital Marketing, Content, Web, Analytics and AI platforms, with enough technical depth to challenge designs, assess trade-offs, and guide solution architecture decisions.\n\nInnovation and AI mindset - stays ahead of emerging digital, data and AI trends and pragmatically translates them into scalable, high-value use cases for the business.\n\nChange leadership and communication - drives adoption through clear communication, training, and structured change management, and articulates complex technology concepts to non-technical audiences.\n\nPeopleleadership - mentors and develops team members, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous learning.\n\nComfort operatingamid ambiguity, transformation, and platform transition - remainseffective and decisive in a fast-changing environment with evolving priorities and legacy-to-target-state migration\n\nGILEAD CORE VALUES:\nIntegrity (Doing What's Right)\n\nInclusion (Encouraging Diversity)\n\nTeamwork (Working Together)\n\nExcellence (Being Your Best)\n\nAccountability (Taking Personal Responsibility)\n\nEqual Employment Opportunity (EEO)\nIt is the policy of Gilead Sciences, Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively \"Gilead\" or the \"Company\") to recruit select and employ the most qualified persons available for positions throughout the Company. Except if otherwise provided by applicable law, all employment actions relating to issues such as compensation, benefits, transfers, layoffs, returns from layoffs, company-sponsored training, education assistance, social and recreational programs are administered on a non-discriminatory basis (i.e. without regard to protected characteristics or prohibited grounds, which may include an individual’s gender, race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, creed, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, medical condition, veteran status, and age, unless such protection is prohibited by federal, state, municipal, provincial, local or other applicable laws). 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