Associate Director Global Marketing Oncology Scientific Strategy

Job Description

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.

We are currently recruiting an Associate Director, Global Marketing –Scientific Strategy for our company's Oncology Portfolio of products. The Associate Director, Global Marketing will join a fast-paced and dynamic team in Global Oncology to help shape and drive commercial strategy to effectively communicate the science behind our brands.

This position will report to the Director, of Global Scientific Communication Strategy and will require an ability to translate complex scientific information into clear end-to-end strategies based on future cross portfolio growth opportunities and competitive landscape changes.

Responsibilities Include but are not limited to:

• Scientific Communications Promotions: work with Medical Affairs, Center for Observational and Real-world Evidence (CORE) and Disease Teams to determine concise, simple and effective communications of scientific narratives, real world evidence and other relevant scientific topics

• Collaborate across multiple stakeholders in Global Oncology and cross-functionally with our company's Research Laboratories and other commercial teams to realize consistent scientific communications across the organization.

• Partner, co-create, and share best scientific communications practices with regions and markets Lead global marketing social listening strategy including congress and TIER 1 data coordinated across teams/divisions and regions partnering with Digital Marketing Commercial Excellence (DMCE) Social Listening team.

• Enhance use of data and analytics to measure key activities.

• Lead annual planning process, budget management, vendor expense management for the Scientific Strategy Communication team

• Effectively source and work with agency partners for scientific driven projects.

Education:

• Required: Bachelor's degree

Required Experience:

• Strong oncology and scientific acumen

• Minimum of 5 years Pharmaceutical experience

• Minimum of 3 years Oncology Experience

• Demonstrated ability to develop innovative and bold strategies

• Proven ability to interpret and synthesize complex scientific principles.

• Excels when addressing ambiguity, working outside existing processes or structures.

• Strong Communication and large complex project management skills.

• Ability to establish networks across stakeholders to drive influence and alignment

• Test and learn mindset to drive culture of innovation

• Committed to applying agile values, principles, and practices

• Requires approximately 25% travel, including some weekends.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience in oncology medical affairs or global marketing preferred.

• Early brand development experience

• Digital Innovations around scientific data

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.

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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:R186703