Clinical Site Partner

Employment Type: Full time

Position Overview

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. 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. We believe every employee deserves a great leader. People Leaders are the cornerstone to the employee experience at Gilead and Kite. As a people leader now or in the future, you are the key driver in evolving our culture and creating an environment where every employee feels included, developed and empowered to fulfil their aspirations. Join Gilead and help create possible, together.

Gilead's mission is to discover, develop, and deliver therapies that will improve the lives of patients with life-threatening illnesses worldwide.

Responsibilities

As a Clinical Site Partner, you are responsible for:

• Establish and maintain strong professional and collaborative relationships with investigator sites by leveraging disease area expertise to optimize delivery of clinical trial programs.
• Develop strategies to drive concierge level support for preferred sites to ensure Gilead becomes the Sponsor of Choice.
• Track key performance metrics to assess site performance and identify opportunities for acceleration and continuous improvement.
• Establish and manage strong working partnerships with local PAGs and communities, including liaising with patient groups in relation to protocol development and study design considerations.
• Serve as an internal resource to champion and promote an environment that incorporates the patient perspective and voice across the continuum of product development based on patient insights obtained from local PAGs and communities.
• Identify investigator sites, PAGs and communities in alignment with portfolio strategy and priority to expand Gilead’s clinical research partnership network.
• Maintain therapeutic and technical expertise to enable scientific discussions with the investigator and site personnel.
• Share ongoing information with investigators, PAGs and communities regarding Gilead's development pipeline and collect and report field-based intelligence in relation to competitive landscape, patient treatment pathways and other operational considerations that may impact Gilead's clinical trial program.
• Provide support to study teams and Clinical Research Organizations (CROs) to ensure timely delivery of clinical trials from initiation to closeout such as during feasibility, site recommendations, attendance at initiation visits, facilitation of communication and ongoing support of trial enrollment by engaging with site staff to identify enrollment barriers and working with study teams to find solutions.
• Support the development and implementation of applicable site risk plans to ensure achievement of key study and site level milestones such as first patient first visit, delivery of clinical trial enrollment commitments and database lock.
• Serve as a local point of escalation for investigator sites and partner with the appropriate parties to resolve issues and remove barriers to clinical trial execution at a site and/or country level.
• Proactively communicate and escalate issues identified at investigator sites and partner with internal functional areas to develop corresponding mitigation strategies and recommended approaches, including participation in development and implementation of solutions to address these issues.

Company Information

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. 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. We believe every employee deserves a great leader. People Leaders are the cornerstone to the employee experience at Gilead and Kite. As a people leader now or in the future, you are the key driver in evolving our culture and creating an environment where every employee feels included, developed and empowered to fulfil their aspirations. Join Gilead and help create possible, together.