Associate Director, IT Communications and Organizational Change Management
United States - North Carolina - Raleigh
Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a research-based bio-pharmaceutical 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. Gilead’s therapeutic areas of focus include HIV/AIDS, liver diseases, cancer and inflammation, and serious respiratory and cardiovascular conditions.
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Job Description

About Gilead:
Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company that has pursued and achieved breakthroughs in medicine for more than three decades, with the goal of creating a healthier world for all people. The company is committed to pursuing scientific invention to prevent and treat life-threatening diseases, including HIV, viral hepatitis and cancer. Gilead has operations in more than 35 countries worldwide, with headquarters in Foster City, California.
You will be part of a team that is helping millions of people live healthier, more fulfilling lives. We are a close community where every individual matters and everyone has a chance to enhance their skills through ongoing development. Inclusion is one of our core values, which means we are creating and fostering a work environment where our differences are valued, and everyone feels respected and empowered to bring their authentic selves to work. By joining Gilead, you will further our mission to discover, develop and deliver innovative therapeutics for people with life-threatening diseases.
The Gilead Business Services center in Raleigh's Research Triangle region will be home to some of the company's critical shared service teams in North America, including Information Technology, Global Financial Solutions, HR Operations and Procurement Services Desk. These functions provide the necessary support to ensure Gilead's business runs effectively and efficiently. The center is a catalyst for standardization of processes, digital transformation and technology optimization.
About the Role:
This role presents the exciting opportunity to manage an internal creative agency within a large IT organization and oversee everything from strategy to creative to graphic design, copy and more. The Associate Director of Organizational Change Management (OCM) will report directly to the CIO Chief of Staff and be responsible for overseeing a team of employees and contractors to focus on the people side of change including changes to business processes, systems, and technology.
The primary responsibility of this role will be maximizing employee adoption and usage and minimizing resistance. This is a matrixed role and will require collaboration across IT and supporting business functions; Fully accountable for driving outcomes, a true problem-solver.
Essential Duties and Job Functions:

• Lead the team to strategize and ideate creative, strategic, memorable campaigns and creative that will excite and motivate employees to take action.
• Work with leaders and project teams within IT and the business to conduct readiness and resistance assessments using surveys, interviews, focus groups, or other methods; evaluate and summarize findings for executive management and steering teams.
• Lead and define the engagement approach between IT and the rest of the business. Work closely with the IT Leadership Team, key leaders across the IT Organization, and Change Managers within IT and the business to prioritize changes and run the IT Change Advocate network including serving as the face of IT to key business partners, chiefs of staff, and change and communications leads
• Supervise the portfolio of IT change initiatives and govern change management activities, providing a structured methodology, standardized tools, and coaching to Change Managers.
  • Estimate the level of effort and identify correct resources for each body of work
  • Evaluate readiness assessments and change management plans prepared by Change Managers.
  • Oversee measurement systems to track adoption, utilization, and proficiency of users.
• Oversee the communications and training schedule for multiple IT projects; harmonize the release of communications and training about other change initiatives.
  • Approve communication assets to ensure quality control as well as proper messaging and distribution through IT Communications and Employee Communications.
  • Align training strategies with IT Training offerings; encourage a comprehensive approach that addresses varying ways of learning
• Oversight and continuous improvement of the OCM methodologies and strategies used to navigate changes to further development the IT OCM organization.
• Proactively identify external changes and events that may affect change saturation or acceptance within the target audience. Take action to address the risk or act on opportunities to combine change activities with other events in the company.
• Supervise the creation and/or iteration of Personas through user research, discovery, and job shadowing.
• Grow the OCM CoE by assessing strengths and development needs of the staff and identifying opportunities to improve productivity and performance.
• Oversee end-to-end OCM vendor activities including understanding the intricacies of the OCM process including the Unity project management tool, templates, and tools being utilized in driving the appropriate OCM support strategy, relationship management, and performance management.
• Serve as a key liaison to the Operations Manager and their team to ensure accurate and cost-effective stewardship of the oversight of expenditures required to deliver OCM support across IT.
• Ensure all OCM team members have access and information to the most current OCM methodology, tools, templates, and processes used across the organization.

Minimum Qualifications:

• BA/BS and 10 years of relevant experience
• Certified in Change Management practices

• 10 or more years in IT and business/industry
• A minimum of 5-7 years of leadership responsibilities managing direct reports and matrixed organizations
• Experience in business/industry, managing cross-functional teams or projects, and influencing senior-level management and key stakeholders
• Experience implementing global, transformational projects and programs

Preferred Knowledge and Skills:

• Strong understanding of how to integrate company principles, methodologies, and operational processes into day-to-day activities and behaviors, as needed
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; expertise in converting technical messages into clear messages that outline why change is needed that appeals to key business personas
• Strong executive presence and ability to influence leaders; skilled in asking the right question(s) - in combination - to elicit a response for the leader/team needs at the moment
• Exceptional presentation skills with the ability to inform and influence leaders across IT and Gilead
• Able to understand and clarify business goals through consultation
• Understands how business goals integrate with project goals (why, so what) and translates those goals into actionable OCM strategies
• Strong ability to articulate the big picture with or without details and work in ambiguous situations
• Experience with coaching leaders on how best to contribute to change success
• Experience designing a methodology for success metrics and incentives to be applied across all programs

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