Merck & Co Hiring for Associate Director, US Oncology HCP Marketing – Lung Cancer job in North Wales Full Time

Job Description

At our company, our Oncology team is dedicated to delivering breakthrough innovations that extend and improve the lives of cancer patients worldwide. Our team of forward-thinking individuals achieve this through an unwavering commitment to support accessibility to medicine, providing new therapeutic solutions, and collaborating with governments and payers to ensure that people who need medicines have access to them. Our focus is on innovation and launch execution excellence; we translate breakthrough science into innovative medicines that help people with cancer across the globe.

We are currently recruiting for an Associate Director, US Oncology Lung Cancer HCP Marketing . This position will be responsible for leading key elements of Health Care Provider (HCP) marketing and w ill help developing and executing the launch plans for lung cancer opportunities. This position will require outstanding leadership in many different areas including HCP go-to-market launch planning, partnering with customer-facing teams, omni-channel promotion strategies, launch execution excellence, and cross-functional collaboration. This role will report to the Director, Early-Stage Lung Cancer – US Oncology .

The position location will be in Upper Gwynedd, PA (Hybrid work model is combination of in-office and work from home).

As marketing roles across the US Oncology organization are evolving and broadening, this position is designed to be a flexible marketing role that may focus on any aspect of marketing over time based on business needs and/or the capabilities and development needs of the team.-The initial focus of the role is outlined below, but the role could include or shift to other aspects of marketing in the future such as HCP strategy, agile digital promotions, performance-reporting & data analytics, etc.

• Lead the development and execution of HCP go-to-market plans and launch tactics for E arly-stage Lung Cancer indications
• Act as the tumor lead for field team strategy and execution across the lung cancer portfolio (e.g., providing marketing guidance for national sales meetings, launch webcasts, field input team meetings, sales training etc.)
• Lead or co-lead cross-functional teams and clearly communicate vision/plans to ensure brand/tumor deliverables are met
• Monitor & track field execution metrics against goals across all customer-facing teams and seek opportunities to optimize field team effectiveness
• Partner with digital execution teams to develop new message platforms/resources, innovative digital strategies, and HCP engagement plans
• Collaborate with the market research and analytics team to translate key insights and enhance execution plans
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to prioritize and facilitate internal resource trade-offs (e.g. promotional reviews, field priorities, budget planning, etc.)
• Escalate issues that represent significant barriers to execution, challenge the status quo to gain sponsorship and address gaps to demonstrate business impact

Education Minimum Requirement:

• Required: Bachelor’s degree (BA/BS)
• Preferred: Advance Degree (MBA, PharmD, etc.)

Required Experience and Skills:

• Minimum 5 years’ pharmaceutical/ biotech experience with at least 3 years of brand marketing/sales experience
• Strong interpersonal/negotiation, relationship building, and ability to influence within and across organizations
• Demonstrated ability to successfully work in a complex matrix organization where exceptional collaboration is required to obtain desired results
• Strong problem solving, project management, and written/ verbal communication skills
• Experience bringing promotional materials through legal, regulatory, and medical review
• Test-and-learn mindset to drive a culture of innovation and customer experience
• Requires approximately 20% travel, including some weekends.

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Prior U.S. Oncology HCP Marketing, Promotion, and/or Sales experience strongly preferred
• Customer Facing experience in pharmaceutical/ biotech industry
• Experience working in Lung cancer
• Product/Indication launch experience – preferably in oncology

Our Human Health Division maintains a “patient first, profits later” ideology. The organization is comprised of sales, marketing, market access, digital analytics and commercial professionals who are passionate about their role in bringing our medicines to our customers worldwide.-

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Employee Status:
Regular

Relocation:
Domestic

VISA Sponsorship:
No

Travel Requirements:
25%

Flexible Work Arrangements:
Hybrid

Shift:
1st – Day

Valid Driving License:
No

Hazardous Material(s):
n/a

Requisition ID:R247631