AVP, Global Marketing, Ophthalmology

Job Description

Our company is dedicated to delivering innovations that extend and improve the lives of people worldwide. We are committed to supporting accessibility to medicine, providing new therapeutic options, and collaborating with governments and payers to help people who need our medicines and vaccines gain access to them. We focus on innovation, translating breakthrough science into innovative medicines, and launch execution excellence, to help people globally. We are currently recruiting for an Associate Vice President (AVP) to lead global marketing for our Global Ophthalmology Franchise.

For more than 35 years, our company has been committed to scientific research and discovery (R&D) in ophthalmology. Today, we are developing a series of options designed to help people manage and treat eye conditions, with the goal of reducing the growing burden of eye diseases worldwide. We remain committed to working hand-in-hand with our partners in the global ophthalmology community to address the complex challenges that impede progress toward improving eye health.

Our ophthalmology portfolio has been significantly strengthened by the recent acquisition of EyeBio. One of our key products is currently in Phase 2b/3 clinical trials for the treatment of diabetic macular edema. The product aims to provide a new, potentially first-in-class therapeutic option for patients suffering from serious retinal diseases, including diabetic macular edema and neovascular age-related macular degeneration, or wet-AMD. Additional pipeline candidates include clinical and preclinical assets being developed for the prevention and treatment of vision loss associated with retinal vascular leakage, a known risk factor for retinal diseases.

This is an exciting opportunity to help patients and make a significant impact on our company's efforts to bring critical, innovative products that can help improve the lives of people living with certain eye conditions. This position requires outstanding leadership in strategy, patient access, and cross-functional collaboration. The portfolio has the potential to deliver substantial potential commercial opportunity in an area of significant unmet need.

The role will report to the Vice President and Global Commercial Leader, Infectious Diseases, Neuroscience & Ophthalmology.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead the development and execution of the Global Marketing Strategy for the Ophthalmology Franchise.

• Drive launch readiness and commercialization of new ophthalmology treatments across global markets

• Provide oversight and direction for a cross-functional, cross-geography team supporting the ophthalmology franchise.

• Serve as commercial leader supporting the relevant Product Development Teams (PDTs).

• Collaborate with market access and pricing teams to develop and implement global market access strategies.

• Inform Medical and Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR) publication planning.

• Develop competitive response planning to support commercialization.

• Lead commercial input into business development efforts.

• Lead and build a team of high-performing professionals that will serve as the core Ophthalmology commercial team.

• Organization Design & Talent Attraction: Determine the appropriate team structure to support portfolio development and pipeline opportunities and assemble a team to achieve success.

• Leadership and Mentoring: Provide leadership and mentorship to team members, ensuring access to professional development opportunities. Promote a high-performing team and an inclusive culture by setting expectations and fostering a positive work environment.

Education Minimum Requirement:

• Required: Bachelor's Degree

• Preferred: Advanced Degree (e.g., Master’s Degree in Business Administration, etc.

Required Experience and Skills:

• Minimum 10 years combined marketing, sales, market access & pricing, marketing support, or related experiences in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industries.

• Minimum 3 years experiences working in retina.

• Experience leading strategy development and implementation.

• Strong business acumen and ability to drive cross-functional initiatives forward.

• Strong collaboration skills, both within commercial teams and across divisional teams.

• Ability to clearly articulate messages/ information across the enterprise and to senior leadership.

• Ability to work within complex organizations and markets and leading sub-teams and influencing without authority.

• People management experience and demonstrated ability to develop team members and direct reports.

• Strong leadership abilities, with the ability to inspire, motivate and align cross-functional teams.

• Expected travel up to 25%.

• Ability to work in a hybrid setting (i.e., 2 to 3 days per week in office).

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Global Marketing experience and country and/or regional marketing experience.

• Ophthalmology commercial experience.

• Demonstrated leadership in the development of brand strategy, brand positioning, and brand marketing.

• Demonstrated ability to manage a portfolio of brands and provide above-brand guidance.

• Experience in ophthalmology or other specialty disease areas.

• Experience providing commercial input on activities such as target product profile development, global regulatory filing strategy, launch readiness reviews, organized customer interactions, market research, demand, revenue, and P&L forecasting, BD&L activities, product development team (PDT), and agency partner management.

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.

This is a hybrid working position with expected travel up to 25%.

We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively.

We offer both domestic and international relocation with VISA sponsorship. The expected salary range is $235,280.00 - $370,400.00. Furthermore, we provide flexible work arrangements and maintain a strong level of collaboration with our manufacturing colleagues.

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Effective September 5, 2023, employees in office-based positions in the U.S. will be working a Hybrid work consisting of three total days on-site per week, Monday - Thursday, although the specific days may vary by site or organization, with Friday designated as a remote-working day, unless business critical tasks require an on-site presence.This Hybrid work model does not apply to, and daily in-person attendance is required for, field-based positions; facility-based, manufacturing-based, or research-based positions where the work to be performed is located at a Company site; positions covered by a collective-bargaining agreement (unless the agreement provides for hybrid work); or any other position for which the Company has determined the job requirements cannot be reasonably met working remotely. Please note, this Hybrid work model guidance also does not apply to roles that have been designated as “remote”.

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Available benefits include bonus eligibility, long term incentive if applicable, health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and sick days. A summary of benefits is listed here.

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