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Madrid | Spain

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Director Public Affairs Virology page is loaded

Director Public Affairs Virology

Apply locations Spain - Madrid time type Full time posted on Posted 30+ Days Ago job requisition id R0039421

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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

Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a research-based biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes innovative medicines in areas of unmet medical need. With each new discovery and investigational drug candidate, we seek to improve the care of patients living with life-threatening diseases around the world. Gilead’s therapeutic areas of focus include HIV/AIDS, liver diseases cancer and inflammation.

The Position

Reporting to the Senior Director, Public Affairs, (EU5), this role is responsible for delivering strategic branded and unbranded external communication programmes for Gilead’s virology area.

Works closely with the TA teams based at Stockley Park and Foster City and local market cross functional TA colleagues.

Job duties include

• Representing Public Affairs internally as part of the cross functional team and externally with a variety of different stakeholders
• Setting new TA communications strategy for the market in alignment with global direction and local market input
• Coordination with cross-functional colleagues to ensure alignment and collaboration in strategic priorities and messaging across different stakeholders
• Providing leadership and support for the implementation of in-market PR activities
• Development/strengthening of relationships with a wide variety of external organizations and professionals, media and other influential organizations in those TAs
• Preparation of communications materials, including strategic programmes, key messages, Q&A documents, press releases, presentations, etc.
• Response to media requests and coordination of interviews with Gilead spokespeople and opinion leader spokespeople as appropriate
• Issues mitigation and management
• Understanding of the regulatory frameworks in the market and ability to manage approvals and interactions with the review team.

Knowledge, Experience and Skills

• Market level or pan-EU experience in product PR, media and advocacy
• Ability to understand and accurately communicate complex science
• Demonstrated experience in media relations (traditional and social), issues management; knowledge of healthcare and industry media and reporting trends
• Demonstrated knowledge of regulations and principles specific to communications for a publicly-traded biopharmaceutical company
• Experience on the pharma sector will be welcomed although is not essential
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
• Experience managing multiple projects (timelines, budgets, priorities) simultaneously; flexibility and results-oriented focus are essential 
• Ability to interact with senior management and high-profile experts appropriately, with confidence and ease
• Ability to give formal presentations to internal and external audiences of various sizes
• Experience working successfully with patient organisations
• Fluency in English as well as the local market’s language
• Typically requires a BA degree in communications, liberal arts, business or science-oriented field (or International Equivalent) proven relevant experience, which includes solid healthcare public relations experience

Behaviours

• Resilient profile with the ability to deliver in an ambiguous environment
• Ability to engage and manage multiple stakeholders to achieve the objective
• Curious with learning agility
• Operationally excellent
• Organised with systematic approach to prioritisation
• Process orientated to achieve the business objective

Gilead Core Values

• Integrity (always doing the right thing)
• Teamwork (collaborating in good faith)
• Excellence (working at a high level of commitment and capability)
• Accountability (taking personal responsibility)
• Inclusion (Encouraging diversity)

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 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). Gilead also prohibits discrimination based on any other characteristics protected by applicable laws.

For Current Gilead Employees and Contractors:

Please log onto your Internal Career Site to apply for this job.

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.

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