Associate Director, Medical Insights Capability Lead

Associate Director, Medical Insights Capability Lead

Responsibilities
- Lead the design, scale-up, and continuous evolution of Medical Insights capabilities across Global Medical Affairs.
- Own enterprise insight processes, standards, frameworks, tools, and enablement to ensure insights are high-quality, decision-ready, and impactful.
- Serve as a transformation and product leader; translate Medical Affairs needs into requirements, roadmaps, and adoption strategies; drive change management and innovation in how insights are generated and used.

Key Responsibilities
- Medical Insights Process and Scale-Up
- Define and maintain enterprise medical insight quality standards.
- Ensure insights are linked to scientific strategy, evidence gaps, and medical objectives.
- Scale standardized Medical Insights processes and ways of working across Global Medical Affairs.
- Frameworks, Methods & Governance
- Design and operationalize standardized frameworks and tools for insight capture, synthesis, management, prioritization, and escalation.
- Establish governance for insight consistency, traceability, and compliance across sources and systems.
- Lead continuous improvement of insight methodologies (advanced analytics, AI-enabled approaches, emerging best practices).
- Product Requirements & Roadmap
- Serve as product owner for Medical Insights capabilities.
- Translate stakeholder needs into product requirements, user stories, and prioritized backlogs.
- Own and maintain a capability roadmap (near-term enhancements and longer-term transformation).
- Partner with Digital, Analytics, IT, and external vendors to deliver scalable solutions.
- Enablement & Adoption
- Drive adoption via change management and stakeholder engagement.
- Design and execute a global enablement strategy (playbooks, training, role-based guidance).
- Build and sustain a network of insight champions and super-users across regions and therapeutic areas.
- Measurement & Impact
- Define and track KPIs for insight quality, timeliness, adoption, and impact.
- Establish feedback loops showing how insights inform decisions and strategy.
- Communicate capability performance and maturity to senior Medical Affairs leadership.
- Innovation & Continuous Improvement
- Identify, pilot, and scale new approaches (AI-enabled acceleration, automation, advanced analytics).
- Monitor external best practices and emerging technologies.
- Ensure measurable improvements in insight quality, efficiency, or impact.

Required Qualifications
- BS/BA with 10+ years experience OR MS/MA with 8+ years OR PhD/PharmD with 5+ years OR MD with 2+ years.
- Demonstrated experience leading enterprise capability development or transformation.
- Experience owning product requirements, roadmaps, and cross-functional delivery.
- Strong understanding of Medical Affairs operations and scientific exchange.
- Proven ability to operate effectively in complex, matrixed environments.

Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced degree preferred (PharmD, MD, PhD, MS, MPH, or equivalent).
- 8+ years experience in Medical Affairs, Medical Insights, Medical Analytics, Digital, or related biopharma functions.

People Leader Accountabilities
- Create Inclusion; Develop Talent; Empower Teams.

Benefits (explicitly stated)
- Company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans.

Application Instructions
- For current Gilead employees and contractors: apply via the Internal Career Opportunities portal in Workday.