Sourcing Director, Commercial Category Management - Foster City, CA

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

For over 30 years, Gilead has been a leading innovator in treating and preventing HIV, but this expertiseis just a foundation for our ambitions. As we continue to expand our scope into new disease states and new markets, we are transforming how we manage Indirect Procurement. We are redesigning our processes with a focus on simplification and user experience. It’s our aspiration to partner with stakeholders across our organization to ensure they can focus on innovating new treatments for our patients. We intend to do this by driving for results and value that have a meaningful impact, re-shaping our supplier strategies & relationships, and creating a diverse and inclusive culture where solution-oriented team players can thrive and grow exciting procurement careers.

In this role, you will develop and execute strategies for global category areas encompassing Commercial services to lower total cost of ownership and increase overall value and identify business demand requirements and delivering the Procurement value proposition across a broad portfolio of Procurement categories and programs supporting (function).

Location: Foster City, CA

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Develop category strategies for Commercial Services & External Affairs (including but not limited to creative & medical communication agencies, global value & access, digital marketing tech, data analytics and market research) to deliver value by achieving cost savings and improving quality and service levels by identifying opportunity areas such as standardization and supplier consolidation.
• Establish and execute stakeholder engagement and governance plans for Commercial, Public Affairs, and Medical Affairs organizations; define annual business partnering objectives, intake/prioritization, initiatives, and success metrics tied to business outcomes.
• Proactively identify initiatives and proposals that create outsized value (e.g. demand shaping, operating model improvements, supplier strategy shifts, preferred partner governance, rate/ROD optimization, content production efficiency, etc.) and drive implementation with stakeholders with clear business cases and decision asks.
• Lead category innovation and new ways of working by identifying external trends (agency models, media/data privacy changes, AI-enabled content workflows, measurement evolution) and translating them into pilots, playbooks, and scalable process improvements.
• Oversee all spend activity and purchase requests for assigned category areas and determine proper action plan for all purchases that meet the procurement involvement threshold.
• Provide category subject matter expertise to business groups and Procurement functions.
• Collaborate and engage across functions/regions to identify requirements and projected demand in alignment with business priorities and engage in strategic planning, target setting and action planning to deliver meaningful business impact.
• Consult with cross functional teams to execute strategic sourcing projects for assigned category.
• Partner with internal senior leadership to define clear supplier objectives which meet Gilead's business needs; including quality, reliability, innovation and cost.
• Develop & drive procurement impact and value delivery through strategic initiatives while monitoring key performance metrics, status on deliverables and dashboards.
• Collaborate with Procurement functions and business groups to ensure that all spend above established thresholds are managed strategically.
• Collaborate with Supplier Risk, Inclusion, and Sustainability functions to create a standard and repeatable process to integrate business diversity and responsible procurement into an overall value proposition.
• Drive use of sourcing and procurement best practices and standardization of processes while minimizing supply risk.

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