Associate Director

For Current Gilead Employees and Contractors: Please log onto your Internal Career Site 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. We empower our leaders to step up, share ideas, listen, learn, and lead. We’re welcoming bright, diverse, and imaginative minds; we’re nurturing them to foster an environment of inclusion and growth where innovation is encouraged. We expect our people leaders to model that environment, and to focus on creating inclusion, developing talent, and enabling teams. 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. Join Gilead and help create possible, together. **Job Description**: Associate Director (m/w/d) Patient Affairs - Medical HIV At Gilead, our vision is to create a healthier world for all people by discovering, developing, and delivering innovative therapeutics for people with life-threatening diseases. From our pioneering virology medicines to our growing impact in oncology, we're delivering innovations once thought impossible in medicine. Because for us the impossible is not impossible. It is what comes next. In the field of HIV, Gilead has been a leading innovator in treatment and prevention of this life-threatening disease. We helped to transform HIV from an inevitably fatal condition to a chronic one that can be well managed by innovative treatments and hence enabling normal life for people living with HIV today. We truly believe in our HIV mission that “Together, we can help end the HIV epidemic for everyone, everywhere”. As Associate Director Patient Affairs HIV you would coordinate and drive our cross-functional engagement to best serve the HIV patient community and patient organizations in Germany. You would be the key responsible person to design, orchestrate and implement patient/community related activities within the German cross-functional HIV team and global Gilead stakeholders. The Associate Director Patient Affairs HIV would report to the Senior Director Medical Affairs HIV. The position is office-based in Martinsried (Munich) and would require travelling on project basis. Key Responsibilities: - Key responsible person to define the overall German HIV strategy for patients, patient advocacy groups and HIV community together with the cross-functional HIV Gilead team. - Key accountable person to create patient-adequate Medical HIV content and to drive and implement non-promotional and unbranded initiatives and tactics. - Deep analysis and understanding of the German HIV patient and patient advocacy group landscape in Germany as well as identification of respective needs and segmentation. - Identification of relevant touchpoints and channels for our communication efforts - Definition of patient and stakeholder journeys considering the omnichannel approach (especially digital/ social media). - Building strong relation and partnerships with leading Patient Advocates, Patient Advocacy Groups as well as other relevant HIV Community Stakeholders in Germany. - Close cross-functional collaboration with other patient-related Gilead stakeholders on national and global level. Job Requirements: - Bachelor/Master/PhD/MD degree e.g. in a relevant medical, scientific, health-related, or communication field - Several years of professional experience in the pharmaceutical or health industry, ideally in Patient Affairs, Marketing, Medical Affairs or Market Research Strategy positions - _Knowledge in managing digital channels and social media would be a plus_ - Excellent analytical and strategic thinking as well as strong business acumen - Excellent presentation and communication skills in German and English to experts and to non-experts - Proven track-record of high performance and drive to implement goals and tasks - Experience in project management and budget controlling - Experience and fun to work as informal leader within the matrix and across functions - Can-do mindset and willingness to think outside the box - Excellent team player and inspiring personality Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) It 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