Senior Compliance Leader

Job Description:

Gilead Sciences is a leading research-based biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes innovative medicines in areas of unmet medical need. With each new discovery and investigational drug candidate, we seek to improve the care of patients living with life-threatening diseases around the world.

We are seeking an experienced Compliance Professional to assist in enhancing and operating our healthcare compliance monitoring, risk assessment, and third-party due diligence programs for our Australia and New Zealand business (ANZ). The location of this role will be based in Melbourne, Australia.

The role reports to the Head of Legal and Compliance and is part of a Legal and Compliance team.

We are currently changing the way our approach to healthcare compliance, and this role provides an opportunity to shape the future for ANZ.

Essential Duties and Job Functions:

• Support the monitoring, risk assessment, and third-party due diligence teams with activities in compliance with relevant laws, the Medicines Australia Code of Conduct, and as our Healthcare Compliance Policies and Processes.
• Leverage data analytics, risk-based sampling, leading risk assessment in healthcare compliance, training and discussions, and supporting any investigations and complaints.
• Work closely with colleagues across different functions, including key partners such as IT, Commercial, Development, Medical Affairs, Public Affairs, Government Affairs, Finance and Clinical, among others, to leverage information from relevant systems for identification and address of potential compliance-related issues.
• Drive innovation and consistency in our approach to compliance-related monitoring, risk assessment, and due diligence to ensure both our company and industry best practices are shared and adopted across functions.
• Key Responsibilities:
  • Develop and align on a multi-faceted healthcare compliance monitoring and risk assessment strategy.
  • Drive the timely development and propagation of ongoing enhancements to the company's healthcare compliance monitoring and risk assessment program.
  • Collaborate with the team to ensure timely and appropriate action is taken to address potential risks and identified issues.
  • Partner with various business functions to explore ways in which monitoring and risk assessment related data may be used to support business strategy and objectives in a compliant manner.
  • Support various business functions in designing business-led monitoring approaches of both higher risk activities and third parties.
  • Responsible for review and approval of activities and engagements in defined areas of the business, including membership of the local grants committee.
  • Development and deployment of healthcare compliance training associated with our healthcare compliance policies.
  • Day-to-day management of compliance and governance committees.
  • Responsible for facilitating requests for diligence on new and existing vendors, including communicating with internal colleagues and third parties to gather all required information to complete diligence.
  • Conducting review of due diligence questionnaires and external checks to identify potential red flags or areas for further inquiry.
  • Serving as a resource and point-of-contact for questions from internal colleagues and third-party representatives going through due diligence.
  • Compiling and analysing reports and metrics and presenting results to colleagues, so that we can continually assess and adjust our risk-based program.
  • Manage data flow from data sources to end reporting engine for transparency reporting of transfers of value to healthcare practitioners and other key stakeholders, including taking corrective actions and remediation of data to ensure that correct, complete and accurate data flow into the company's global transparency systems.
  • Foster an energizing work environment where employees have impact on our patient-centric mission and can grow their careers.

Knowledge, Experience and Skills:

• 7+ years of relevant prior pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry experience or other experience in highly regulated industries, including extensive professional experience advising compliance issues compliance mandates.
• Bachelor's degree required. Advanced degree or other similar certification preferred. Legal qualifications and legal practicing certificate are not required but may be favourable.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Able to exercise judgment and propose courses of action where precedent may not exist.
• In-depth understanding of business objectives and how those translate into healthcare compliance priorities to deliver advice and guidance to the business.
• Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills, an inquisitive mind, and the ability to work effectively in a global, matrixed organization with multiple functions, together with a positive attitude and strong work ethic.
• Ability to present complex information in an accurate and persuasive manner to all levels of management.
• Experience, confidence, resilience, and ability to establish rapport with key stakeholders.
• Experience developing and using advanced Excel-based models, data analytic tools (e.g., Alteryx, Tableau) and conducting quantitative analysis including using AI tools.
• Experience with conducting healthcare compliance monitoring, risk assessments and third-party due diligence.
• Ability to plan monitoring activities with little to no oversight.
• Ability to execute a monitoring activity with little to no oversight.
• Ability to report on a monitoring activity with little to no oversight.

Competencies and Behaviours:

• Proven leadership skills with an ability to set a vision, inspire, champion change, and drive innovative thinking.
• Collaborative, team player that leads by example.
• Strong strategic thinking skills with ability to see the big picture, and to formulate and execute strategy.
• Excellent influencing, interpersonal and communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to network, engage and partner with other functions, and establish positive relationships.
• Strong judgment with proven ability to identify to implement solutions.
• Strong organizational and project management skills and ability to execute through others.
• Proven analytical skills and sound judgment.
• Practical approach to problem-solving.
• Consistently demonstrate and adhere to Gilead's Core Values and create and inspire a team culture committed to the same.

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).