Global Oncology Marketing Strategy & Operations Director

Job Description

New hires based in the US & Puerto Rico will be required to demonstrate that they have been fully vaccinated for COVID-19 or qualify for a medical or religious exemption or accommodation to this vaccination requirement, subject to applicable law.

In April 2020, our Company announced plans to consolidate our New Jersey campuses into a single New Jersey headquarters location in Rahway, NJ by 2023. Therefore, this role will be temporarily based in an exact timing of the departmental move to Rahway, NJ and will be communicated at a future date.

Our Marketing team are 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.

Within Human Health, our Global Oncology Organization is currently recruiting for a Global Oncology Marketing Strategy & Operations Director to join the Global Oncology Strategy & Operations Team reporting to the Executive Director of Strategy & Operations. 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.

The Strategy & Operations Team plays a critical role in supporting our Oncology aspirations through developing cross-cutting commercial ambition, strategies and supporting implementation for the Global Oncology organization. We are focused on creatively unlocking the full potential of our portfolio over the long term, working with stakeholders internally and externally, across divisions, functions and geographies.

This role is for someone who is a self-starter, loves working on complex, ambiguous, strategic topics and who thrives on engaging and leading broadly across the organization to drive towards tangible outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Refining overarching ambition and strategy for the Global Oncology organization and translating this to priorities for the business

• Driving cross-cutting strategic projects across the business towards tangible and actionable outcomes | Guiding the cross-functional efforts toward ensuring sustainable longer-term access to our Oncology innovations across the globe

• Directing ongoing development of a broad Lifecycle Management strategy for our company’s Oncology portfolio, and directing the initiatives and workstreams that come from this strategy through to implementation

• Enabling efficient and effective Operations for the Global Oncology organization, including leading and redefining financial/forecasting processes, strategic processes, cross-divisional processes, cross-geographic processes, corporate processes and others

• Ensuring that the overarching strategy and initiatives are well informed by ongoing insights and analytics around customers, competitors and the broader environment

Education

• Bachelor degree or MBA

Experience | Skills

Required

• Strong in strategic thinking and approaching complex problems with a good balance of structure, curiosity and practicality | See through complexity to get to a tangible outcome

• Direct and collaborate with broad and complex teams of stakeholders—across divisions, functions and geographies

• Principled and strategic verbal and written communications | Presentation approach to all levels of an organization

• Commercial disposition with good base of business acumen and high analytical rigor

Preferred

• Strategy consulting would be highly considered

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:R162198