Sourcing Director, Commercial Category Management - Foster City, CA

Responsibilities

• Develop category strategies for Commercial Services & External Affairs (including creative & medical communication agencies, global value & access, digital marketing tech, data analytics and market research) to deliver value by achieving cost savings and improving quality and service levels.
• Establish and execute stakeholder engagement and governance plans for Commercial, Public Affairs, and Medical Affairs organizations; define annual business partnering objectives, intake/prioritization, initiatives, and success metrics.
• Proactively identify initiatives and proposals that create outsized value (e.g. demand shaping, operating model improvements, supplier strategy shifts, preferred partner governance, rate/ROD optimization, content production efficiency) and drive implementation with stakeholders.
• Lead category innovation and new ways of working by identifying external trends (agency models, media/data privacy changes, AI-enabled content workflows, measurement evolution) and translating them into pilots, playbooks, and scalable process improvements.
• Oversee all spend activity and purchase requests for assigned category areas and determine proper action plan for all purchases that meet the procurement involvement threshold.
• Provide category subject matter expertise to business groups and Procurement functions.
• Collaborate and engage across functions/regions to identify requirements and projected demand in alignment with business priorities.
• Consult with cross functional teams to execute strategic sourcing projects for assigned category.
• Partner with internal senior leadership to define clear supplier objectives which meet Gilead's business needs; including quality, reliability, innovation and cost.
• Develop & drive procurement impact and value delivery through strategic initiatives while monitoring key performance metrics, status on deliverables and dashboards.
• Collaborate with Procurement functions and business groups to ensure that all spend above established thresholds are managed strategically.
• Collaborate with Supplier Risk, Inclusion, and Sustainability functions to create a standard and repeatable process to integrate business diversity and responsible procurement.
• Drive use of sourcing and procurement best practices and standardization of processes while minimizing supply risk.
• Ensure the company has good supply market understanding and works with the business teams to provide input for creating innovative win win customer and supplier strategies.
• Proactively identify improvement opportunities for assigned category and recommend key actions to the appropriate stakeholders.
• Combine all spend information into yearly plans and long term forecasts for costs, savings targets, and planned projects.
• Execute initiatives to classify suppliers and manage supplier relationships according to defined supplier relationship management standards.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and Twelve Years' Experience OR Masters' Degree and Ten Years' Experience OR PhD and Eight Years' Experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 12+ years professional work experience in a corporate environment, preferably in the areas of DEI, procurement and supplier management, or corporate strategy.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with Commercial, Public Affairs/External Affairs, and/or Medical Affairs communications/marketing organizations, including familiarity with agency ecosystems (e.g. creative, media, market research, production) and how those functions measure success.
• Experience supporting Global Procurement transformation projects working directly with business partners to execute on defined scope, budget and transformation results.
• Proven track record of applying procurement principles, concepts, best practices, and standards along with an in-depth knowledge of industry practices required.
• Ability to develop category and sourcing strategies by identifying opportunity areas, with a proven record of effectively directing and leveraging procurement spend in assigned category areas by leading global cross functional teams.
• Experience managing and maintaining strong supplier relationships.
• Strong leadership presence and negotiation/contract management experience.
• Extensive knowledge and experience with procurement/spend systems data and analysis to drive decision making.