Director, Quality Assurance Compliance

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Director, Global Supplier Quality Management Program Position Impact The Director, Global Supplier Quality Management Program serves as the Global Process Owner (GPO) for Supplier Quality Management, providing enterprise leadership and subject matter expertise for the strategy, governance, processes, systems, quality documents, and metrics of the supplier quality program across the end-to-end supplier lifecycle. This role is accountable for building and advancing a globally harmonized, risk-based, and customer-focused supplier quality program in partnership with internal quality functions at Gilead sites that strengthens stakeholder partnerships, drives consistent and scalable ways of working, and enhances quality, compliance, supply continuity, and operational performance across the global network. Through collaborative leadership, deep process expertise, digital innovation, and data-driven decision making, the Director advances supplier quality capabilities and operating models that enable scalable business growth, operational excellence, supply continuity, and regulatory compliance.

Global Process Ownership & Program Strategy Serve as the Global Process Owner (GPO) for Supplier Quality Management across the end-to-end supplier lifecycle.  Steward and decision authority for global supplier quality processes, standards, and governance models, ensuring consistent interpretation and implementation across the enterprise considering proactive issue and risk mitigation for all integrated program stakeholders. Own and execute the plan and evolution roadmap for the Supplier Quality Management Program, aligning program capabilities with business objectives, regulatory expectations, and future-state operational needs with stakeholders representing all supplier type categories. Lead future-state process design initiatives by translating strategic objectives, stakeholder needs, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices into scalable supplier quality solutions. Establish and maintain enterprise-wide supplier quality standards, governance, policies, procedures, and business processes. Ensure a globally aligned, scalable, risk-based, and customer-focused framework that delivers consistent quality oversight and ways of working across the enterprise. Enable and champion cross-functional collaboration and continuous improvement, partnering with integrated program stakeholders at Gilead manufacturing sites and within global functions to understand operational needs, remove process barriers, and lead the transformation and alignment of local supplier quality practices within the global Supplier Quality Management framework. Provide global oversight and governance for supplier quality processes, including but not limited to: Supplier onboarding,