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Job Description
Senior Director, HIV Treatment Portfolio Strategy
The Senior Director, HIV Treatment Portfolio Strategy is responsible for defining and advancing the integrated portfolio strategy across Gilead's HIV Treatment brands. As the portfolio expands to include multiple complementary brands, this leader ensures brand strategies, investments, and commercial approaches work together intentionally to maximize long-term patient impact, portfolio value, and franchise growth while preserving clear brand-level ownership and accountability.
This role serves as the enterprise integrator for the HIV Treatment business, partnering closely with Brand Leadership, Sales, Medical Affairs, Market Access, Insights & Analytics, Finance, Commercial Operations, and Global teams to identify portfolio opportunities, establish strategic priorities, guide investment and resource allocation decisions, and enable coordinated decision-making across brands. The role is accountable for portfolio direction, governance, prioritization, and strategic integration, while brand and capability leaders translate those priorities into specialized strategies, activation plans, and business outcomes.
The Senior Director identifies and frames the portfolio's most consequential strategic choices, evaluates opportunities, risks, dependencies, and trade-offs across brands, and develops objective recommendations that enable timely executive decisions and coordinated organizational action. This includes assessing growth opportunities, competitive responses, investment trade-offs, and future priorities.
Key Responsibilities
The Senior Director, Portfolio Strategy is accountable for defining the integrated HIV Treatment portfolio strategy, establishing portfolio priorities, leading cross-brand decision-making, and optimizing investment and resource allocation across the business.
The role does not own brand, customer engagement, media, digital, field, or channel strategies. Instead, it establishes the portfolio direction, priorities, governance, and decision frameworks that guide those functions. Brand teams and portfolio capability leaders translate portfolio priorities into specialized strategies, execution plans, and measurable business outcomes.
Portfolio Strategy, Growth & Investment Prioritization
Lead the development and alignment of the integrated HIV Treatment Portfolio Strategy, defining the role of each brand and how brands work together to address evolving patient, customer, and market needs.
Own the portfolio planning framework, connecting long-range strategy, annual planning, investment decisions, and business reviews into a cohesive roadmap.
Assess market dynamics, competitive trends, customer needs, policy developments, and emerging innovations to identify the growth opportunities, risks, and strategic choices most critical to…