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# Director, IT SAP Product Lifecycle and Quality

- **Company:** Gilead Sciences Inc.
- **Location:** Foster City, 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, Technical Debt, Information Technology, SAP S/4HANA, GXP
- **Published:** October 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/1_gileadinc-R0053862

## About the Role

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. **Key Skills & Experience** + 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

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