Associate Director, US Marketing Pipeline Vaccines and Vaccines Confidence

Job Description

Our Marketing team is passionate about bringing our medicines and vaccines to our customers around the world. Through digital listening and patient analytics, we are able to understand our customers’ needs and strive to provide solutions to meet them.

Job Description:

• This exciting Associate Director of US Marketing role will help shape the future of the vaccine landscape in the US, by both improving Vaccines Confidence across our portfolio and shaping the commercial strategy by which we bring critical new vaccines to the market.

• This is a unique time in the world, where the value of vaccinations, their positive impact on public health and improving health equity, and the importance of improving confidence in vaccines are now common parts of everyday dialogue and part of critical initiatives of many government and community leaders.

• This role will report to the US Marketing Leader, Vaccines Confidence and Pipeline Vaccines

Position Description

• This critical role will have a broad and deep span of leadership and requires demonstrated experience in strategy development and implementation as well as cross-functional management

Specifically, the individual will have key responsibilities to:

• Lead above-brand and cross-portfolio Vaccines Confidence strategy and promotional development across key customers, including HCCs, HCPs, Field Engagement, KOLs and Health Systems

• Partner with vaccine brand teams and cross-functional extended team, including policy, medical affairs, and public affairs, to drive strategic alignment and successful execution

• Shape US strategic marketing choices for several vaccine pipeline products, including RSV and Dengue, leveraging the new Commercial Excellence Framework

• Collaborate closely with the Global marketing team, our Research Division, and our US cross-functional team across managed care, policy, pricing, manufacturing, CORE, medical affairs and business development, to ensure US market value proposition is fully addressed in pipeline clinical development programs

Education Minimum Requirements

• Required: BA/BS

• Preferred: MBA

Required Experience and Skills

• Minimum of four (4) years combined strategic marketing, brand management, sales or business support experience

• Demonstrated ability to leverage data analytics and/or customer and market insights to make business decisions and develop, deliver, and optimize efforts

• Demonstrated ability to make strategic choices using fundamental marketing principles (e.g. segmentation, positioning, etc.)

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

• Experience influencing without direct authority, navigating complex or matrix organizations and working successfully with cross-functional teams

Preferred Experience and Skills

• Demonstrated ability to create solutions that drive value for our customers, incorporating innovative approaches where relevant

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

• Experience in new product development and engaging with research and development team

• Experience in a highly regulated environment (with medical/legal review processes)

• Prior experience in vaccine marketplace

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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In accordance with Managers' Policy - Job Posting and Employee Placement, all employees subject to this policy are required to have a minimum of twelve (12) months of service in current position prior to applying for open positions.

If you have been offered a separation benefits package, but have not yet reached your separation date and are offered a position within the salary and geographical parameters as set forth in the Summary Plan Description (SPD) of your separation package, then you are no longer eligible for your separation benefits package. To discuss in more detail, please contact your HRBP or Talent Acquisition Advisor.

New hires in office-based roles in the US & Puerto Rico will be required, subject to applicable law, to demonstrate that they have been fully vaccinated for COVID-19 or qualify for a medical or religious exemption to this vaccination requirement that can be accommodated without an undue burden to the operation. However, subject to applicable law, employees working in roles that the Company determines require routine collaboration with external stakeholders, such as employees in health services, customer facing commercial, or research based roles, will be required to be fully vaccinated as a condition of employment.

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Requisition ID:R196522