Sr. Manager, Incentive Compensation

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About the company : Gilead Sciences is a biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes innovative therapeutics in areas of unmet medical need. The company's mission is to advance the care of patients suffering from life-threatening diseases worldwide. Headquartered in Foster City, California, Gilead has operations in North America, Europe and Australia.

About the role: This role resides within the Sales Analytics & Operations group in the Incentive Compensation department. It is responsible for the effective and efficient leadership and execution of all sales incentive compensation activities for multiple therapeutic sales teams.

Responsibilities

• Achieve an incentive compensation plan design that motivates the sales people to drive revenue. Includes the design for special incentives and awards, as required.
• Achieve a quota methodology that fairly and equitably allocates the revenue forecast down to the territory level.
• Achieve accurate and timely payouts and performance reporting.
• Effectively partner and manage external vendors to maximize the vendor engagement and performance by driving high quality work product within budget and schedule.
• Provide sales performance insights using advanced and complex analysis. Includes: regular incentive compensation health checks, data quality control, and any ad-hoc requests.
• Achieve alignment on all activities by collaborating with a diverse set of stakeholders. Stakeholders include: forecasting, finance, marketing, sales leaders, sales analytics, business conduct, legal, IT, HR, payroll, accounting and data strategy.
• Remove non value-added efforts by identifying and executing continuous improvement activities.
• Impactfully, communicate insights, sales results, ideas, and proposals with confidence to all stakeholders.

Skills

• Commit to excellent leadership in all activities and processes.
• Process difficult and sensitive questions/decisions using sound judgement and supportiveness.
• Leverage extensive project management and organization skills for optimal workflow, driving timelines, and navigating challenges to the project.
• Demonstrate comprehensive and advanced knowledge about the brand. Includes: Gilead products, competitors, market landscape and disease state.
• Leverage all understanding of the business, market and business objectives to identify new opportunities and strategies to create a better future state.
• Actively listen, trust and respect all stakeholders to develop an impactful business partnership.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience in sales compensation, sales/marketing analysis, statistical analysis, and financial forecasting, preferably in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry.
• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, economics, finance or related fields
• Masters or MBA preferred
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft tools: Excel, PowerPoint, MSTeams, Word, Outlook
• In-depth experience with data visualization tools (e.g. Tableau)
• Strong understanding of pharmaceutical data sources, preferred

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