Associate Vice President, US Hospital & Specialty Marketing Lead

Job Description

The Associate Vice President, US Hospital & Specialty Marketing Lead oversees marketing for Merck’s portfolio of growing hospital & specialty brands, currently valued at almost $2B in net sales. This chief marketing role guides a set of marketing teams driving growth and long term strategies for portfolio of products across antibiotic, c-difficile, anesthesia, HIV and antiviral therapeutic areas, maintaining a strong focus on compliance and ensuring Merck’s ethics and standards remain in place.

This position will be a key member of the US Hospital & Specialty management team, reporting to Kate Robinson, to help identify, prioritize and ensure execution of near term priorities and shape long term growth strategy & culture.

This individual will be accountable for supporting the continued evolution of the US market commercial transformation within the business unit and across the market; elements of transformation include business agility, use of data & analytics and improving customer engagement through digital and omni channel strategies.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Oversee development of US strategy and execution for hospital specialty brands

• Prioritize investments, resources, and actions across teams to drive growth across the portfolio; guide the revenue and expense forecast processes for the business unit

• Provide a strong vision and direction to marketing organization aligned to Merck’s strategic priorities, ways of working and value & standards

• Guide and support commercial transformation through agile ways of working, quarterly business planning as well as other capabilities to improve customer experience e.g., use of data & analytics, marketing strategy framework and omni channel customer engagement

• Actively engage in attracting and developing strong, results-oriented and diverse team

• Responsible for assessing external customer & market evolution, impact on strategies, resourcing and capabilities in order to guide future needs of the business unit

• Guide commercial input and decisions related to business development and early product planning

• Partner with peers across enterprise (e.g., global marketing, account management, operations, policy, manufacturing, medical affairs, regulatory, outcomes research, communications, legal & compliance) to support commercial strategies and achieve our financial objectives for the hospital specialty portfolio

• Participate in US Hospital Specialty management team to guide business unit objectives, commercial model decisions as well as talent & people development

Education:

• Required: BA/BS

• Preferred: MBA

Required Experience:

• Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience including sales, marketing and managed care in US market

• Proven success in marketing and/or strategy development as well as resource prioritization

• Successful track record of people management and talent development

• Experience guiding diverse teams in a solid line and/or matrix environment

• Successful commercial experience overseeing brands or multiple teams across therapeutic areas

• Demonstrated executive presence

Preferred Experience:

• US marketing / market access experience

• Digital marketing experience

• Working in agile environment

• Leading through challenges and change management

• Hospital and/ or specialty market experience and understanding

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:R186402