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# Director, IT SAP Product Lifecycle and Quality

- **Company:** Gilead Sciences Inc.
- **Location:** San Mateo, CA, United States
- **Salary:** $226,185.0 - $292,710.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Integrity, SAP (Applications), SAP Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), SAP Quality Management, Software Engineering, Web Platforms, Technical Debt, Information Technology, SAP S/4HANA, GXP
- **Published:** October 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.businessworkforce.com/job.asp?id=3467492202&tx=VT6459TTT&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## About the Role

* Bachelor's or Master's degree in IT, Engineering, Computer Science, Business, Life Sciences, Supply Chain, or related field.
 * 15+ years of SAP, ERP, digital platform, product management, solution architecture, or enterprise delivery experience in life sciences or regulated manufacturing.
 * Deep experience with SAP PLM, SAP QM, SAP S/4HANA, and regulated product lifecycle, quality, and release processes.
 * Strong knowledge of PLM and quality capabilities, including specifications, recipes, BOMs, change management, inspection, batch management, release, genealogy, and related integrations.
 * Solid understanding of GxP, GMP, FDA 21 CFR Part 11, validation, data integrity, audit readiness, and regulated delivery practices.
 * Proven ability to lead ERP portfolios across strategy, roadmap, investment planning, delivery, sustainment, compliance, and value realization.
 * Demonstrated leadership of global matrix teams, vendors, system integrators, AMS partners, business stakeholders, and technical teams.
 * Strong business partnership, executive communication, and governance skills with the ability to simplify complex SAP, quality, regulatory, and compliance topics.
 * Track record of driving standardization, reducing technical debt, improving operational resilience, and delivering measurable business outcomes.
 * Ability to present roadmap, investment, delivery, sustainment, and value realization recommendations to senior leadership.

## Description

Strategy & Business Partnership

 * Own the end-to-end Regulatory-to-Release capability strategy across PLM, Quality Management, Product Release, and related digital platforms.
 * Serve as the senior IT partner for Product Development, Regulatory, Quality, Manufacturing, Clinical, Supply Chain, and Kite, aligning technology priorities to business outcomes.
 * Set the multi-year roadmap and investment priorities for SAP PLM, SAP QM, Batch Release, Global Batch Trace, and related quality capabilities.
 * Establish enterprise standards and design principles that promote compliant, scalable, and standardized solutions.
 * Partner with business process owners, Enterprise Architecture, and delivery teams to govern solution decisions, investments, and lifecycle management.
 * Drive measurable outcomes in compliance, product quality, release cycle time, adoption, stability, and business value realization.

Delivery & Operational Excellence

 * Own delivery performance across the Regulatory-to-Release portfolio, ensuring scope, schedule, quality, validation, deployment, sustainment, and adoption commitments are met.
 * Lead execution across PLM, QM, Batch Release, and related digital initiatives, ensuring delivery is predictable, compliant, and business-aligned.
 * Oversee cross-functional teams, partners, and vendors to resolve issues, manage dependencies, and drive integrated planning from design through support.
 * Govern backlog priorities, release plans, testing, validation, deployment readiness, and hypercare execution.
 * Ensure delivery documentation, metrics, and governance controls support quality, compliance, adoption, stability, and measurable business outcomes.

Leadership

 * Lead the Regulatory-to-Release organization across PLM, Quality Management project delivery & sustainment operations.
 * Set clear ownership, priorities, execution discipline, and talent development expectations for PLM and Quality leaders.
 * Build accountable, customer-focused teams with strong product, architecture, delivery, quality, validation, and operations capabilities.
 * Manage vendors, system integrators, AMS partners, and co-source teams to ensure delivery performance and accountability.
 * Influence senior business and IT leaders on strategy, investments, roadmap priorities, operating model decisions, and value realization.
 * Communicate priorities, risks, progress, operational health, and outcomes to senior leadership and governance forums.