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Senior Director, Opinion Leader Programming HIV Treatment

Gilead Sciences
August 22, 2026
Remote friendly (San Francisco Bay Area)
United States
Medical Affairs
Role Overview
The Senior Director, Opinion Leader Programming HIV Treatment will report to the Executive Director of Franchise Marketing for the HIV business unit. Drive KOL/account strategy and management for marketing and support key OLP initiatives (speakerโ€™s bureau, advisory boards, conference debriefs, and the opinion leader database). Oversee budgeting and agency partnerships; partner across marketing, medical, and cross-functional stakeholders to implement OLP strategies and tactics.

Essential Duties and Job Functions
- Contribute to long- and short-term US HIV treatment brand strategies and action plan
- Partner with PrEP OLP team to ensure synergies across OL engagement
- Develop OLP strategic and tactical plan
- Oversee key initiatives: speaker bureau, advisory boards, conference debriefs, OL mapping/database, account management, and OL-generated content
- Monitor the HIV landscape and identify opportunities to support brand strategies
- Translate scientific/clinical/epidemiological insights into actionable commercial ideas
- Establish and maintain relationships with opinion leaders, key accounts, and medical associations
- Collaborate with treatment, prevention, franchise marketing, medical, and sales to maximize effectiveness
- Lead cross-functional initiatives with high organizational visibility
- Navigate marketing materials through internal review for regulatory/legal compliance
- Establish OLP team procedures, systems, metrics, and infrastructure
- Synthesize OLP budget, articulate tradeoffs/risks, and recommend decisions
- Design and deliver presentations to internal and external audiences
- Coach, develop, and manage direct reports
- Identify and engage agency partnerships to support OLP efforts
- Ensure compliance with laws, regulations, and policies

Background Knowledge, Skills & Qualifications
- High-performing marketing leader; vision setting; lead diverse teams; create high-performance culture
- Strategic thinker with a track record tackling complex business problems
- Strong customer focus; collaborative environment with external OLs and cross-functional partners
- Exceptional interpersonal, verbal, and writing skills; simplify complex topics
- Ability to lead through others and maintain senior leadership visibility
- Project management excellence; manage multiple priorities
- Ability to understand and communicate clinical data/high-level science
- Drive consensus; manage conflicts across cultures/disciplines
- Direct people management and highly cross-functional leadership preferred
- Track record of pharma/biotech specialty marketing
- Understanding of pharmaceutical regulatory requirements and impact on marketing materials

Basic Qualifications
- 14+ years with BS/BA OR 12+ years with MS/MA or MBA

Preferred Qualifications
- MBA in marketing/related fields
- 10+ years of experience
- Bachelorโ€™s degree in marketing/related fields
- Advanced product lifecycle management experience
- Advanced science degree (MD/PharmD/PhD) or advanced business degree (MBA)
- Extensive pharmaceutical product lifecycle management knowledge across therapeutic areas
- Prior people management experience required; biopharmaceutical/pharmaceutical experience preferred

Benefits (if applicable as stated)
Salary range: $261,375.00 - $338,250.00. May be eligible for discretionary annual bonus, discretionary stock-based long-term incentives, paid time off, and a benefits package including company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.

Application Instructions (as stated)
Please apply via the Internal Career Opportunities portal in Workday.