Manager, Government Affairs

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with the Federal Government Affairs team and Government Affairs leadership to devise, execute and track operating plans, ensuring those plans are aligned to broader company priorities.
• Serve as project manager for substantive GA and enterprise projects of increasing complexity: define scope, develop and maintain comprehensive project plans, including timelines, milestones, owners, deliverables, and resource requirements, and drive projects to on-time, high-quality completion.
• Coordinate project activities across functions, ensuring alignment with overall project goals and objectives; run timely, efficient, and action-oriented project meetings and track decisions, action items, and deliverables.
• Build and maintain structured systems, documents, trackers, dashboards, and repeatable processes for GA priorities, legislative and regulatory developments, stakeholder engagements, and enterprise initiatives.
• Draft, edit, and quality-check high-quality written products, including strategic plans, briefing memos, presentations, position summaries, and leadership updates.
• Monitor federal legislation, regulations, programs, and executive branch actions impacting Gilead/Kite; over time, you will become adept at flagging implications for GA priorities.
• Develop and maintain a high-impact GA communications platforms to deliver timely updates informing internal stakeholders regarding key government actions impacting Gilead.
• Support preparation of materials for leadership and governance reviews, Congressional engagements, and trade association workgroups; staff workgroups as needed, reflect Gilead's perspective in those discussions, and share outputs with the GA team and partners as appropriate.
• Coordinate with cross-functional internal partners, including Legal, Commercial, Research, Development and Public Affairs, to identify opportunities to advance Gilead's legislative and regulatory priorities and to ensure an aligned policy perspective.
• Support GA operations, including the annual planning cycle, budget tracking, coordination of external consultants.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement and optimization, including via leveraging AI, and drive adoption of best practices across the team.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, exercising sound judgment and discretion with confidential information.

Basic Qualifications

6+ Years with BS/BA OR 4+ Years with MS/MA

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong project management capabilities with a proven ability to prioritize and execute across multiple workstreams, and a track record of managing complex projects and meeting challenging deadlines.
• Excellent written communication skills, with demonstrated ability to synthesize complex policy and business material into clear and accurate products for senior audiences.
• A resourceful self-starter with problem-solving and critical thinking skills; self-motivated with a strong sense of ownership.
• Attention to detail, organized and thorough, with strong organizational and time management skills.
• Excellent collaboration, interpersonal, and communication skills, with demonstrated success working in fast-paced, dynamic environments and influencing stakeholders without direct authority.
• Experience in health policy, in government, or with a trade association is a plus.
• Familiarity with the legislative and regulatory process, including drug coverage, reimbursement, and access policy, is a plus.

People Leader Accountabilities

• Create Inclusion - knowing the business value of diverse teams, modeling inclusion, and embedding the value of diversity in the way they manage their teams.
• Develop Talent - understand the skills, experience, aspirations and potential of their employees and coach them on current performance and future potential.
• Empower Teams - connect the team to the organization by aligning goals, purpose, and organizational objectives, and holding them to account.