Senior Specialist, US Marketing, Antibiotics Franchise: Engagement Strategy and Execution

Job Description

Job Description:

This Senior Specialist reports to Marketing Chapter Lead within the Hospital Specialty Business Unit (HSBU). This Engagement Strategy and Execution role will focus on driving the field sales execution of brand strategy for our products through close collaboration with the Design Team, Commercial Agile Team, Sales Leadership, Learning & Development, and Brand Communications for the Hospital sales team.

This position will contribute to driving ongoing field sales integration and maximization of customer engagement capabilities (Field Suggestions, Field Email, Next Best Engagement, etc.). Additionally, this role will work to understand customer engagement effectiveness through data analytics and enabling the flow of critical customer insights back into the organization to evaluate performance and diagnose areas of opportunities, while building an industry-leading omnichannel customer engagement experience.

In addition, our marketing team has adopted an Agile operating model to be more adaptive and responsive to rapidly evolving customer needs and keep pace with the digital evolution in the marketplace. This Agile model enables marketers to enhance their experience, building skills and capabilities that flex across various commercial functions based on business needs and priorities. The successful candidate embraces a growth mindset, a willingness to tackle challenges, and a passion for learning, development, and a greater team achievement.

Key Responsibilities of the role will include, but are not limited to:

• Customer engagement and execution activities aligned to brand strategy

• Partner with the Design Team and Sales / Sales Leadership in all aspects of preparation, planning and ongoing integration related to product promotion, customer engagement and execution

• Collaborate with Field Sales and Sales Training to identify and prioritize training and development

• Customer segmentation and targeting activities, tactical plan development, and KPI implementation / monitoring

• Leverage customer journey, insights, and engagement data to maximize execution

• Development of execution resources

• Establish and maintain ongoing bi-directional communication between field sales and brand team to ensure continuous integration, support sharing of relevant insights, and ultimately, maximize customer engagement efforts

• Plan, coordinate, and lead brand team engagements with field sales (national meetings, strategy reviews and training calls, etc.)

This position will build momentum to continued development of outstanding leadership skills critical in many areas of product management including strategy and extended team opportunities, ability to build alignment across diverse teams, and problem-solving skills. He/she must demonstrate strong collaboration across the brand and extended teams to achieve effective execution of the developed strategy.

Education Minimum Requirements

• Required: BA/BS

• Preferred: MBA

Required Experience and Skills

• A minimum of 2 years Pharma/biotech experience OR a minimum of 3 years combined strategic marketing, sales, or business support experience in any industry, is required

• Strong written/verbal communication skills as demonstrated through experience in strategy & marketing business case communication, sales interface, direct customer engagement and/or sales presentations

• Strong judgment, prioritization, and decision-making skills with ability to manage complexity and competing priorities

• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills

• Promoting teamwork and open discussion of issues

• Demonstrates high degree of integrity and ethics

• Participate and contribute as extended team member in brand or sales specific projects and initiatives.

Preferred Experience and Skills

• Strong project management skills as demonstrated by prioritizing activities, using resources optimally, establishing appropriate deadlines and ensuring on-time delivery

• Proven ability to drive execution

• Experience in hospital segment, antibiotics arena

• Experience in or working with sales organizations

• Ability to work cross-functionally and build credible, effective working relationships both internally and externally

• Project management experience

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.

Who we are …

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for …

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

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Requisition ID:R231076