Director, Commercial Product Strategy

Overview

As Director, you will shape and execute the global HIV congress strategy, aligning cross-functional teams to drive impactful commercial content and performance across key markets. You will lead a global portfolio for HIV congresses, coordinating with regional partners and agencies to deliver compelling narratives, customer engagement, and compliant materials. This role combines strategic oversight with hands-on execution in G9 markets, shaping the way Gilead communicates with customers at major conferences. You’ll partner with Centers of Excellence and leadership to optimize budgets and track KPIs, enabling scalable, high-impact congress programs.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible working policy
• remote work (2 days)
• onsite work 3 days
• opportunity to relocate within London HQ planning
• full-time role
• international collaboration

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement the annual global congress strategy for HIV in collaboration with cross-functional teams
• Coordinate with global, regional and local partners to align objectives, messaging and customer engagement around congresses
• Lead the creation of commercial content for conferences and ensure compliance through the Congress Center of Excellence
• Manage vendor relationships and global budget to deliver congress deliverables efficiently
• Support G9 market execution leads and feed insights back to Global Marketing
• Track performance indicators to assess impact of congress activities
• Oversee staffing plans for customer-facing roles at congresses
• Collaborate with agency partners on materials and staffing strategies

Key requirements

• B.A. or B.S. (required)
• 10+ years of pharmaceutical marketing experience with prior congress leadership
• HIV Treatment and/or PrEP experience preferred
• Strong strategic and operational background from country-level roles
• Excellent communication and ability to present to senior management
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, matrix organization
• Experience in global planning and budget management

• excellent interpersonal and verbal/written communication
• strong leadership and influencing abilities
• customer focus and collaboration
• global congress strategy
• budget management
• vendor relationship management

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