Senior Manager - Government Affairs

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.

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.

Job Description

Senior Manager, Government Affairs, BeNeLux

Location: Netherlands

The Government Affairs Senior Manager for BeNeLux will be an experienced government affairs professional with strong strategic and execution skills. The Senior Manager will work with measurable business impact in a fast-moving and challenging policy environment build and evolve the government affairs strategy and function as part of the Gilead team.

This role will serve as a critical link connecting national external affairs stakeholders and governments with Gilead/Kite and identifying mutual areas of interest between the company and policymakers, in an effort to advance the healthcare needs and expectations of these stakeholders.

Gilead Sciences is a biotech company, with a BeNeLux cluster based in Amsterdam and Brussels. With a dedicated, diverse team of more than 100 colleagues we are passionate about making medicine available for patients with life threatening diseases.

Job Description

Gilead is a research-based biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes innovative medicines in areas of high unmet medical need. The company strives to transform and simplify care for people with life-threatening illnesses around the world. Founded in 1987, Gilead has over 18 000 employees and 14 000 contractors and operates in more than 35 countries worldwide, with headquarters in Foster City, California.

Gilead is known for its innovative medicines, start-up culture, lean teams and deep expertise of its people. Gilead has a heritage of being grounded in science.

Government Affairs at Gilead aims at fostering an innovation friendly environment to enable patients to have access to our innovative portfolio. The global and international Gilead Government Affairs and Policy team acts as a critical link, connecting governments with Gilead science and connecting Gilead with policymakers’ needs and expectations. We strive to be a thought-leading function, valued for our analysis and insight and capability to inform policy change that enhances patients’ access to Gilead’s innovation. Our vision of success is to foster an environment where governments value, reward and support access to Gilead’s innovation.

Gilead in BeNeLux is a high performing Gilead cluster within Australia, Canada, and Europe’s (ACE) Midsize Markets region. The Gilead Government Affairs team is and will be involved in high profile projects to achieve our long-term strategy to become a partner of choice.

The role

The Government Affairs Senior Manager for BeNeLux will be an experienced government affairs professional with strong strategic and execution skills. The Senior Manager will work with measurable business impact in a fast-moving and challenging policy environment, will build and evolve the government affairs strategy and function as part of the Gilead team.

This role will serve as a critical link connecting national external affairs stakeholders and governments with Gilead/Kite and identifying mutual areas of interest between the company and policymakers, in an effort to advance the healthcare needs and expectations of these stakeholders.

Leadership

• Deliver leadership as an active member of the External Affairs team, supporting the cluster and government affairs strategy and activities.
• Work as a strong partner with the Market Access Directors, General Manager, the Leadership Team and the broader BeNeLux team on cross-functional and government affairs opportunities and challenges.
• Engage with political stakeholders (including government, parliament and regional political stakeholders) to shape and drive relevant policy debates and legislation in areas of interest for Gilead in BeNeLux and meet clearly defined KPIs.
• Work on government affairs issues across the ACE Midsize Market region as active member of the regional and International Government Affairs Team.

Core Tasks and Responsibilities

• Develop and implement innovative and industry-leading governmental affairs policy, collaboratively strategy and activities to support the objectives of Gilead BeNeLux.
• Manage strategies, initiatives, operations, and activities on national and regional health policy and pharmaceutical policy and legislation.
• Monitor the legislative/regulatory environment with the objective of providing Gilead’s management with sophisticated information and options on dealing with developments so that our interests are achieved.
• Partner with external stakeholders and create a positive reputation for Gilead among national and regional parliamentarians and members of the government, advisors, and the political environment, for the purpose of facilitating and enhancing Gilead’s mission.
• Lead our work to shape the external environment with trade associations and industry platforms together with the GM, the Market Access Director and the Leadership Team
• Work and align with other members of the government affairs department as well as other Gilead departments in BeNeLux and internationally. Ensure that government affairs initiatives and policy objectives are fully aligned with Gilead’s business priorities, and help Gilead identify opportunities to work with policymakers to advance our mission.

Knowledge, Experience and Skills

• Typically requires a BSc or BA degree, with prior experience in government, government affairs, public affairs or policy role.
• Strategic thinker with ability to formulate, develop and execute on agreed strategies including knowledge of the healthcare systems in the Netherlands and Belgium and key policies relevant for pharmaceutical market access for highly innovative medicines. Additional knowledge of Luxembourg healthcare systems is preferred.
• Experience in Netherlands and Belgium and preferably also Luxembourg value and access policies and in reimbursement policy is desirable.
• Ability to build and develop effective relationships with members of healthcare, business legislative, regulatory and policy community. Ability to build alliances with patient advocacy groups and other relevant NGOs working closely with Public Affairs.
• Experience in cross-functional team work to create a policy environment where the policymakers’ value, reward and supports timely access to our innovative therapies is preferred.
• Sound business judgment and analytical skills
• Ability to work in a matrix organization
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communications skills
• Experience with budget and project management
• Must be fluent in English and Dutch verbally and in writing. Preferably fluent in French.

Gilead Core Values

• Integrity (always doing the right thing)
• Teamwork (collaborating in good faith)
• Excellence (working at a high level of commitment and capability)
• Accountability (taking personal responsibility)
• Inclusion (encouraging diversity)

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