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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. 

We have the following exciting opportunity in our Foster City, CA, Parsippany, NJ, or Washington, DC locations.

Associate Director Patient Advocacy and Community Engagement, U.S. Virology (HIV, viral hepatitis, and liver disease)

Reporting to the Senior Director of US Virology Advocacy & Community Engagement, this role will be responsible for leading an Advocacy and engagement strategy for Gilead’s HIV, viral hepatitis, and liver disease therapeutic areas. This includes management of long-term advocacy relationships and forging new relationships with patient advocacy groups to meet consumer needs and drive Gilead’s U.S. advocacy and community engagement strategic goals and objectives. 

Key areas of responsibility include:

• Proactively build and maintain relationships with patients, caregivers, and advocates for people living with HIV, viral hepatitis, and rare liver diseases around Gilead’s pipeline products and treatments

  • Majority of responsibilities will focus on HIV/AIDS

• Serve as the lead relationship manager for Community/Patient Advocacy and caregiver groups as well as other relevant external stakeholders

• Work in association with US Advocacy team members to engage a cross-functional advocacy working group and coordinate the development and implementation of a comprehensive U.S. patient advocacy and engagement strategy, aligned with the Virology Franchise global objectives. Cross-functional partners will include but not be limited to: Public Affairs, Medical Affairs, Clinical Operations, Clinical Research, Regulatory, Market Access, Global Commercial Product Strategy, Commercial Marketing, Legal, Business Conduct and Government Affairs & Policy.

• Maintain awareness of current and new local, state and federal health care policy and population-health related initiatives aimed at reducing health disparities for people living with HIV, hepatitis, and rare liver diseases.

• Build internal capacity and capabilities supporting the development of health equity-focused innovative community-led engagement initiatives supporting populations disparately impacted by virologic diseases

• Drive strategic coalition building among key advocacy partners to support organizational capacity building for patient identification, screening, linkage to care, and address of stigma-related health disparities.

• Lead and apply stakeholder mapping to identify and develop strategic alliances with U.S. Community/Advocacy organizations and relevant stakeholders aligned with Gilead’s global and U.S. advocacy strategic plans.

• Support bi-directional communication between Gilead and Virology Patient Advocacy groups to understand and identify unmet needs and priorities among community stakeholders related to policy, research, and population health programming.

• Develop internal and external communication strategies to drive visibility of community advocates’ priorities related to disease education and awareness, disease prevalence, screening, linkage, and retention into care.

• Represent advocacy stakeholders’ perspectives in the discovery, development, and delivery of Gilead therapeutic products.

• Develop and collaborate with Public Affairs Therapeutic, Corporate and Employee Communications to drive an external communications plan for community education and disease awareness, clinical milestones, product development, advocacy partnerships, media engagements.

• Initiate, facilitate and execute high-priority pilot community engagement initiatives with cross functional teams across the organization that align with strategic priorities.

Qualifications:

• Experience in patient advocacy, community engagement, and issues management.

• Prior experience in Virology/HIV advocacy, communications, government affairs, marketing or medical affairs is highly desired

• A strong understanding of the US market access and public policy environments is essential

• Able to prioritize tasks, organize and manage multiple projects.

• Communicate and collaborate effectively with internal customers and cross-functional teams.

• Coordinate and manage projects with external consultants as needed or appropriate.

• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.

• Excellent strategic thinker with ability to formulate, develop and execute on agreed strategies.

• Demonstrate ability to take initiative and consistently deliver high-quality, patient-centric solution. while working in a high-matrix organization.

• Expertise in issues management, crisis communications and media relations

• Ability to develop and lead corporate reputation building campaigns

• Ability to interact with senior management, academic experts and patient advocates appropriately, with confidence and ease

• Ability to influence others and drive alignment across diverse teams

• A passion for engaging in public health and policy issues

• Ability to present complex strategy to executive leadership

Specific Education and Experience

Requires 8 years of relevant experience in patient advocacy with a master’s degree or 10 years with a bachelor’s degree.

We are seeking someone with 3 years relevant biopharmaceutical experience or 5 years of relevant experience in public health strategy, program development and communications

An advanced degree in science, public policy, or public health a plus

At least 3 years of experience working with biopharmaceutical partners

At least 3 years of experience working with Community/Patient Advocacy partners and membership-based organizations in virology, specifically HIV and liver disease

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