Sr. Manager / Associate Director, New Product Planning - Kite

Gilead; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Gilead is seeking a knowledgeable professional to join its Kite Business Unit. The role focuses on developing commercial strategies for cell therapies in Japan, requiring experience in the pharmaceutical industry and strong interpersonal skills. As part of a dynamic cross-functional team, you'll lead efforts in marketing and strategy, fostering partnerships to enhance Gilead’s innovative impact.

Qualifications

• Experience in pharmaceutical/healthcare industry familiar with marketing/sales strategy.
• Understanding of hematology/oncology landscape and business of cell therapy.
• Ability to implement multi-dimensional marketing and business plans.

Responsibilities

• Develop the commercial strategy for early products in the Japanese market.
• Manage external agency relationships for promotional deliverables.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory and legal requirements.

Skills

Business Acumen

Interpersonal Skills

Marketing Strategy

Product Launches

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree

MBA or other advanced degree

Job description

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.

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.

We believe every employee deserves a great leader. People Leaders are the cornerstone to the employee experience at Gilead and Kite. As a people leader now or in the future, you are the key driver in evolving our culture and creating an environment where every employee feels included, developed and empowered to fulfil their aspirations. Join Gilead and help create possible, together.

Job Description

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.

Kite is singularly focusing on curing cancer through delivering cell therapy. We are at the forefront of immunotherapy and engineered T cell therapy. Our personalized approach is what sets us apart. Unlike traditional pharmaceutical manufacturing, our therapies are not created on an assembly line. With CAR T-cell therapy, we are reengineering a patient’s own immune cells to fight cancer — one patient at a time. To achieve this goal, Kite BU in Gilead Sciences Japan is in charge of Kite business in Japan.

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 Kite Business Unit and report to the Product Management Brand Lead in Tokyo.

In this Kite Marketing, New Product Planning oversees the early product marketing for Kite Japan cell therapies. S/he develops commercial strategy and action plans, develops relationships with opinion leaders and develops and implements the promotional communication strategy and tactics for early products in Japanese market.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop the commercial strategy and action plans for early products in Japanese market by leveraging the global and regional strategy and plans
• Develop effective working relationships with opinion leaders and other key stakeholders to establish Kite’s pipeline in Japan
• Partner with Clinical team, Medical Affairs, Government and Public Affairs to ensure effective development and implementation of strategies
• Utilize high level of business acumen in analyzing and coordinating activities from identified industry trends, competitor’s resources and practices
• Collaborate with the regional marketing team to share local market insights that can inform the development of global brand plans
• Develop and implement the promotional communication strategy and tactics ensuring alignment with the overall brand strategy
• Work alongside the global, US, EU and international marketing colleagues to develop and produce compliant promotional materials
• Manage external agency relationships (i.e., advertising, public relations, medical education vendors) to develop promotional deliverables
• Manage the marketing budget (OPEX) and project timelines
• Drive excellence in commercial efforts, including business planning and forecasting
• Ensure all marketing activities are in compliance with regulatory and legal requirements

Requirement (Education, Knowledge, Experience and Skills)

• Demonstrated experience within the pharmaceutical / healthcare industry to include familiarity with marketing / sales strategy and tactics, as well as commercial policies and practices within specialty care
• Thorough understanding hematology / oncology clinical landscape and the business of cell therapy
• Demonstrated track record of successful product launches and / or sustained commercial growth
• Proven ability to manage cross-functional teams with excellent interpersonal skills in order to lead, interact with, focus, resolve conflict and drive consensus among individuals from a variety of cultures and disciplines
• Demonstrated ability to conceive, develop and implement multi-dimensional marketing and business plans
• Ability to develop, maintain and utilize a high level of product and therapeutic disease knowledge to promote the appropriate use of cell therapies to opinion leaders
• Excellent and demonstrable command of written and spoken English and proficiency at communicating verbally and in written form
• Bachelor’s degree

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or other advanced degree in similar field
• Recent B cell malignancy / oncology experience and understanding of the funding and clinical challenges in this area

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

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