Associate Director, Global Oncology Marketing Women's Cancer Portfolio

Job Description

Our company's Women’s cancer team is building a leading portfolio to improve and save lives of women with breast and gynecological cancers.

Associate Director Global Oncology Marketing Women's Cancer Portfolio Key responsibilities:

• Develops commercial strategies aligned with our strategic marketing approach (“L3”) with cross-functional partners to successfully navigate the evolving internal and external environments and deliver value to our customers

• Provides commercial leadership, develops aligned perspectives and input in various settings incl other cross functional working and governance teams (launch readiness reviews, identification of data gaps and approaches, organized customer interactions, market research, demand, revenue forecasting), and budget, events/ congresses and agency partner management.

• Responsible for launch and commercialization strategies and deliver global strategy and execution plans, tactics and materials.

• Generate market and customer insights through a combination of quantitative and qualitative ways to engage on portfolio and indication opportunities.

• Develop commercial strategies and execution materials to support launches and inline indications. Ensures that all materials and initiatives are aligned to our Company compliance standards, receive necessary approvals and are appropriately refreshed.

•  Shape key strategic communication objectives, Omnichannel, and content development for customers and measure impact of objectives across multiple channels to continuously improve on the customer experience.

• Engage with agency partners to develop customer resources, and lead approval of resources through the Promotional Review Team (PRT) process.

• Engage effectively with regions and markets

  • Provide leadership, support, and expertise as well as gain input and feedback from region and country colleagues – on strategy, marketing materials approaches and omnichannel marketing.

  • Lead and contribute development of strategic and tactical plans annually and be accountable for execution of their responsibilities as tracked through QBR and budgets management

• Lead initiatives to drive operational efficiency and effective deployment of global strategies across the team

• Lead prioritized initiatives to drive innovation and new ways of using data, analytics and digital to lead in the market – in collaboration with disease leads and HHDDA partners.

• Demonstrate "One Team" approach of integrating best practices and facilitating cross-regional learning.

• Demonstrate our Company's way of working leadership behaviors including building networks, sharing, focusing on the customer, and driving results. Maintain alignment to compliance goals and policies.

Position Qualifications:

Education:

• Bachelor's degree (BA/BS)

• Masters, MBA or other advanced degree (Preferred)

Required:

• 4 years life science or relevant experience

• Strong written, verbal and presentation skills

• Strong problem-solving skills

• Agility to learn quickly and adapt to changing environment       

• Project management skills

• Must be able to influence without authority as well as work collaboratively in cross-functional teams

• Ability to travel up to 15-20% of time

Preferred:

• In market commercial / launch experience

• Pharmaceutical Oncology experience

• Experience working with diverse stakeholders in fast paced environments

• Scientific background/ experience

• Experience with data, analytics, digital marketing

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