Director, Regional Commercial Excellence – Marketing and L&D

We’re here for one reason and one reason only – to cure cancer. Every moment is dedicated to developing treatments and every action moves us one step closer to our goal. We’ve made incredible scientific breakthroughs and our pioneering personalized CAR T-cell therapies have changed the paradigm. But we're not finished yet.

Join Kite, as we make even bigger advances in cancer therapies, and help shape where our business and medical science goes next.

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 Kite and help create more tomorrows.

Job Description

Kite, a Gilead Company, is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the development of innovative cancer immunotherapies. The company focuses on chimeric antigen receptor and T cell receptor engineered cell therapies.

Everyone at Kite is grounded by one common goal – curing cancer. Every day, we aim to establish a direct line between that purpose and our day-to-day work.

We are creating Kite together, with the recognition that the best teams are built by the best people. We maintain an attitude of curiosity, and creativity with each challenge as we develop a new market for cancer therapies. We appreciate and respect one another, and most importantly, we don’t take success for granted. While we’ve come a long way to make what others viewed as impossible, possible, we know one thing is certain. Today is just the beginning.

We are seeking a Director, Regional Commercial Excellence – Marketing and L&D with responsibility for the Kite International region.  This key role will involve supporting country brand leads to drive effective development, implementation and delivery of Global brand strategy and marketing tactics across the region. The role will also collaborate extensively across functions within this region to ensure effective development, implementation, delivery and monitoring of Cell Therapy training programs in line with country-specific needs. The position reports to the General Manager International and is based on site in Santa Monica - CA.

Key Responsibilities

Marketing

• Work closely with Global brand leads, and country marketing leads to support the development and implementation of brand specific strategies and tactics at the regional and local level
• Identify and develop regional tactics and support initiatives to drive launch success and Kite CAR-T brand performance in the international region.
• Drive consistency of Brand messaging across the international region, ensuring   alignment with Global strategy
• Drive excellence in commercial efforts, ensure performance tracking / monitoring and plan follow up actions as necessary
• Ensure learnings and best practices from regional launches shared and implemented by affiliates
• Manage agency relationships for adaptation of promotional deliverables
• Ensure marketing activities are in compliance with international regulatory and legal requirements

Training – Learning and Development  

• Design, develop, and facilitate any local implementation and roll-out of Cell Therapy training programs for both office-based and field-facing Commercial roles in the international region
• Partner with country-level functional leadership teams to align tactics to local business needs and competency requirements
• Identify specific training needs and ensure the development of high-quality new and ongoing training interventions
• Utilize high level scientific acumen to translate complex scientific concepts into impactful messages to support local customer engagement strategy implementation
• Align closely with Cell Therapy brand leads (and their brand/customer strategies) in the development and implementation of brand-specific training programs
• Closely align with Medical Leads to support market readiness and efforts concerning Kite product differentiation
• Assist local teams to execute training implementation by supporting planning, logistics management, vendor monitoring and local roll-out of training
• Proactive approach to lead the support for local teams in the development of commercial competencies by ensuring that delivery and content is aligned with the business strategy
• Continually assess current training offers from providers to identify areas for ongoing improvement and opportunities requiring the development of additional, country-specific training content
• Develop L&D curricula to enhance functional skills and competencies for customer-facing roles
• Collaborate with CL&D colleagues across the organization to ensure consistency and identify opportunities to leverage existing marketing and L&D resources
• Liaise with Gilead CL&D teams to leverage Gilead training resources and apply them to Kite
• Foster mentoring relationships with other functional colleagues from more mature markets to support best practice sharing
• Coordinate training development with Kite US and ACE CL&D teams to ensure alignment and maintain consistent standards and metrics
• Maintain subject matter expertise for disease states, products and therapeutic areas aligned with Kite’s portfolio and account management strategy
• Manage the training budget (OPEX) and project timelines
• Manage agency relationships to develop training deliverables and rollouts, when needed
• Ensure all training activities and materials are compliant with legal, regulatory and company policy requirements
• Build essential relationships with key stakeholders including business unit directors, medical affairs, regulatory, and legal affairs.

Basic Qualifications:

High School Degree and Sixteen Years’ Experience

OR

Associate’s degree and Fourteen Years Experience

OR

Bachelor's Degree and Twelve Years’ Experience

OR

Masters' Degree and Ten Years’ Experience

OR

PhD and Eight Years’ Experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Direct experience in hematology / oncology (cell therapy experience a plus)
• Ability to rapidly develop a strong understanding of hematology / oncology clinical landscape and the business of cell therapy
• Strong leadership skills and comfort in a rapidly changing environment
• Demonstrated track record of successful product launches in marketing and training spaces
• Proven ability to manage cross-functional teams with excellent interpersonal skills to lead, interact with and drive consensus among individuals from a variety of cultures and disciplines
• Demonstrated experience working in a matrix cross functional environment, but also be able to work independently and with minimal supervision
• Demonstrated excellence in project management and effectiveness in managing multiple projects/priorities
• Ability to work with external agencies and vendors to develop programs and materials 
• Ability to engage with & achieve results while motivating affiliate brand team marketers
• Excellent verbal / written communication and presentation skills
• Experience working at both a global and/or affiliate/regional marketing level
• Flexibility for up to 25-30% International travel

People Leader Accountabilities

•Create Inclusion - knowing the business value of diverse teams, modeling inclusion, and embedding the value of diversity in the way they manage their teams.

•Develop Talent - understand the skills, experience, aspirations, and potential of their employees and coach them on current performance and future potential. They ensure employees are receiving the feedback and insight needed to grow, develop, and realize their purpose.

•Empower Teams - connect the team to the organization by aligning goals, purpose, and organizational objectives and holding them to account. They provide the support needed to remove barriers and connect their team to the broader ecosystem.

 

The salary range for this position is: $205,615.00 - $266,090.00. Kite considers a variety of factors when determining base compensation, including experience, qualifications, and geographic location. These considerations mean actual compensation will vary. This position may also be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus, discretionary stock-based long-term incentives (eligibility may vary based on role), paid time off, and a benefits package. Benefits include company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans*.

For additional benefits information, visit:

https://www.gilead.com/careers/compensation-benefits-and-wellbeing

* Eligible employees may participate in benefit plans, subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans.

Kite is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the development of innovative cancer immunotherapies with a goal of providing rapid, long-term durable response and eliminating the burden of chronic care. The company is focused on chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) and T cell receptor (TCR) engineered cell therapies designed to empower the immune system's ability to recognize and kill tumors. Kite is based in Santa Monica, CA. For more information on Kite, please visit www.kitepharma.com. Sign up to follow @KitePharma on Twitter at www.twitter.com/kitepharma.
 

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Kite Pharma will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, (c) consistent with the  legal duty to furnish information; or (d) otherwise protected by law.
 

Our environment respects individual differences and recognizes each employee as an integral member of our company. Our workforce reflects these values and celebrates the individuals who make up our growing team.

Kite Pharma provides a work environment free of harassment and prohibited conduct. We promote and support individual differences and diversity of thoughts and opinion.

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