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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.

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Job Description

Gilead Sciences is a research-based biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, and commercializes innovative medicines in areas of unmet medical need. Our heritage of science and innovation and the curiosity and passion of everyone who works here has enabled us to provide medicines that help transform standards of care for more than 30 years. Gilead’s therapeutic areas of focus include liver diseases, infectious diseases, inflammatory diseases and oncology. Recently Gilead has expanded its oncology portfolio and seeks to become a leader in this critical disease area.

Gilead Sciences Japan is seeking a knowledgeable and motivated professional capable of working effectively in a cross-functional team environment. The successful candidate will assume a full- time employment in the Oncology Business Unit and report to the Oncology Marketing Director.

In this Oncology Marketing, Opinion Leader Liaison, Senior Manager role, you will play a key role in driving the marketing tactics implementation for launches in Breast Cancer, Lung Cancer and other cancer types. You will work from product launch to new indications, you’ll be providing insights gained from opinion leaders and partnering with Sales, Medical Affairs, Commercial Operations and Public Affairs to drive the implementation of integrated commercialization strategies.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish & maintain relationships with opinion leaders and stakeholders at a local, regional, and national level

• Oversee the effective communications process and obtain feedback and advice from key medical and scientific experts and relevant stakeholders

• Provide inputs to the launch strategy planning for multiple indications (Breast Cancer, Lung Cancer, Bladder Cancer and other cancer types)

• Work with cross-functional teams to develop and implement tactics

• Engage and influence at senior cross functional levels within and above country

• Identify actionable insights based on the feedback from opinion leaders and ensure that the product / brand addresses unmet need areas

• Collaborate with Sales Team to ensure the roll-out/ implementation of strategy

Knowledge, Experience & Skills:

Essential: *　Desirable:*

Requirement (Education, Knowledge, Experience, Competencies and Skills)

• Must have over 10 years of relevant experience in pharmaceutical industry

• Must have experience in engaging opinion leaders in pharmaceutical industry

• Experience in new product or new indication launches is strongly preferred

• Previous experience working in Oncology is a plus (in particular Breast Cancer and Lung Cancer)

• Strong analytical skills, demonstrated by the ability to identify and interpret complex issues and provide appropriate recommendations to senior management and across functional areas

• Experience in people management is not mandatory but a strong plus

• Experience working with internal cross functional teams

• Experience working with multiple external key stakeholders including Medical Societies, Patients and PAGs, Diagnostics companies etc

• Familiar with current promotion code in Japan

• Strong resilience, abstract thinking, problem solving ability

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing/ Business/ Science or related fields required

• Higher post graduate qualification eg. MBA or other advanced business degree is desired

• Fluent in Japanese and English (TOEIC 700+ or equivalent)

Gilead Core Values

Everyone at Gilead is motivated by our overarching mission to discover and deliver innovative therapies that improve patient care in areas of unmet medical needs. But it’s just what we do that gives us an edge, it’s how we do it. We expect everyone at Gilead to lead by example, guided by our core values:

Integrity – Doing What’s Right

Inclusion – Encouraging Diversity

Teamwork – Working Together

Accountability – Taking Personal Responsibility

Excellence – Being Your Best

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.