Director, Pediatric and Hepatitis Global Marketing

Job Description

R131845 - Director, Pediatric and Hepatitis Global Marketing

Overview

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

The Director, Pediatric and Hepatitis Global Marketing is a key role on the franchise, reporting directly to the AVP, Global Commercial Lead for the business. This role is being created as a hybrid role working on brand teams and across the pediatric strategy realization.

Over time and depending on the capabilities of the candidate this role is anticipated to focus in one direction as Brand Leader or Strategy Operations / Delivery role.

Candidate will be responsible for the following:

• Lead key workstreams on the ‘Growing Forward’ strategy for the Pediatric and Hepatitis franchise.

• Projects and insight generation to inform commercial growth, brand scenario planning and market development work.

• Ensuring strong alignment to and execution of the strategy across the extended Vaccines teams (Global Cross-Functional Team, Country Marketing teams, Medical Affairs, Policy, Promotions, Market Research, Communications, Learning Development etc.).

• Partner with Regional & country teams to drive global Pediatric and Hepatitis strategy and prioritized deliverables in key markets.

• Serving as point person for all Regional Assemblies/Summits and regional meetings.

• Lead Market Engagements for market planning, road mapping, strategy integration, external narrative,

• GCT and CFT team meeting planning.

• Oversee and manage monthly and quarterly Cross Functional Team meetings, Regional Assemblies and Global Marketing Forums.

• Developing brand specific public and private marketing strategies and execution plans including market and performance analyses consistent with the overall brand strategy.

• Driving global market research initiatives to inform global strategy and/or support local execution.

• Directing development of global promotional content, in alignment with strategy and in partnership with external ad agency.

• Creating and deploying innovative customer engagement and brand promotion strategies for

• HCP and HCC, solutions that fully leveraging digital, social media, data analytics, and partner with the Digital COE, Enterprise Social Media Team and IT partners.

Education:

• Required: BA /BS

• Preferred: Master’s Degree in Business Administration, health policy or health economics and related disciplines

• A scientific background is also preferred, in either undergraduate or graduate studies

Required Experience and Skills:

• At least 10 years of combined experience in one or more of these areas: access, marketing, or commercial operations (or equivalent roles) .

• Experience with Sales and Operation planning and supply/demand planning (S&OP)

• Ability to anticipate and rapidly respond to market and competitive changes in developing and executing tendering, pricing, and brand strategies.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to identify creative approaches to market/customer in support of growing the business.

• Excellent interpersonal skills, strong influencing, negotiating, and working collaboratively in cross-functional and cross-cultural teams.

• Strong commercial orientation and business acumen.

• Strong verbal and written communications skills.

• Strong project management and operational skills.

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Demonstrated ability to understand, develop and communicate commercial strategies and messages

• Competitive scenarios and simulation / planning and execution of global business strategies

• Global or Region/Country marketing experience

• Vaccines experience

• Customer and Brand Marketing strategy development experience

• Consumer and/or digital marketing experience

Travel:

• 25% of time; ~ 6 to 8 trips per year to attend regional meetings, conferences, or country market development workshops.

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., Kenilworth, 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:R131845