Associate Director, Portfolio Integration & Communications

Foster City, CA (On-site)

$196K/yr – $253K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 19 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own and coordinate HIV Treatment portfolio communications across field and internal forums, translating priorities into actionable briefs and ensuring cross-brand alignment.

  • Translate complex priorities into clear, coordinated actions for sales leadership and cross-functional partners.
  • Drive visibility and learning by coordinating brand and portfolio activities across teams.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead the integrated HIV Treatment portfolio communications cadence across key field and internal forums, including Field Direction Memos, national training calls, sustainment initiatives, leadership communications and other priority touchpoints.
  • Translate portfolio priorities into clear, coordinated and actionable communications for Sales leadership, customer-facing teams and cross-functional partners.
  • Partner with Sales Leadership, Commercial Learning and Development and Brand Marketing to integrate portfolio priorities into key field meeting, training and communication cycles.
  • Maintain visibility across planned brand and portfolio communications to improve sequencing, clarify priorities and reduce unnecessary duplication.
  • Support field readiness for launches, strategic shifts, access changes and other cross-brand priorities by connecting the appropriate brand and functional owners and ensuring coordinated communication.
  • Gather field and stakeholder feedback to identify communication gaps, information needs and opportunities to strengthen portfolio connectivity.
  • Create integrated visibility across key portfolio and brand activities, including market research, customer insights, workshops, major meetings, external engagements and other key milestones.
  • Maintain shared portfolio calendars, internal communications and other mechanisms that enable teams to anticipate upcoming activities, identify intersections and improve collaboration across brands and functions.
  • Strengthen organizational learning by connecting teams around relevant insights, research, approaches and best practices, helping valuable learnings travel more quickly across the portfolio.
  • Lead internal portfolio communications that keep teams informed of key priorities, milestones, decisions and emerging learnings.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Life Sciences, Communications, or a related field and 8 years experience
  • OR
  • Masters Degreen and six years experience
  • OR
  • PhD

Preferred

  • Significant pharmaceutical, biotechnology or healthcare industry experience, with experience in HIV, infectious diseases, specialty care or a related therapeutic area preferred.
  • Demonstrated experience translating complex business and marketing priorities into clear communications, recommendations and coordinated action.
  • Strong understanding of field communications, sales meeting cycles, training and sustainment needs, and the processes required to prepare customer-facing teams for evolving business priorities.
  • Experience connecting priorities and activities across multiple brands, business teams or cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Experience developing internal communications, planning mechanisms or information-sharing approaches that improve visibility and organizational learning across teams.
  • Strong strategic thinking and business judgment, including the ability to identify where portfolio-level coordination creates value while maintaining appropriate brand and functional ownership.
  • Demonstrated ability to synthesize complex information and diverse stakeholder perspectives into clear, actionable implications and recommendations.
  • Proven ability to influence without authority, manage multiple priorities and establish alignment across a highly matrixed organization.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to distill complex information for leadership, field and cross-functional audiences.
  • Demonstrated ability to build trusted partnerships, navigate ambiguity and establish effective ways of working across teams with different priorities and areas of ownership.

Benefits

  • Benefits include company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans*.
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$196K/yr – $253K/yr

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Associate Director, Portfolio Integration & Communications

Gilead Sciences · Foster City, CA · On-site