Director, Global Marketing - Lifecycle Strategy

Job Description
Director, Global Marketing - Lifecycle Strategy
Job Description:
We are a research-motivated biopharmaceutical company. Our mission is built on the simple premise that if we "follow the science" that great medicines can make a significant impact to our world. We believe that a research-motivated enterprise dedicated to world-class science can succeed by inventing medicine and vaccine innovations that make a difference for patients across the globe.
Our Oncology team is dedicated to delivering breakthrough innovations that extend and improve the lives of cancer patients worldwide. Our team of forward-thinking colleagues achieve this through an unwavering dedication 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.
Within Human Health, our Global Oncology Organization is currently recruiting for a Director, Global Marketing - Lifecycle Strategy, to join the Lifecycle Management and Portfolio Strategy team, reporting to the AVP, Lifecycle Management and Portfolio Strategy.
The Lifecycle Management and Portfolio Strategy team plays a critical role in promoting our Oncology aspirations through developing cross-cutting commercial spirit, strategies and promoting 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 a strategic director who is a self-starter, loves working on complex and strategic topics and who thrives on engaging and directing broadly across the organization to drive towards tangible outcomes.
Key assignments:
Defining the overarching life-cycle management strategy for our Oncology portfolio (with a focus on Oncology) and translating this to priorities for the business:

• Defining scenarios and global sales forecast guidance on biosimilar entry timing and allocate erosion, collaborating with colleagues across the enterprise (Finance, IP, Forecasting, spirited Intelligence, Regions)
• Driving LCM brand strategy and a roadmap for advancing product solutions to the benefit of patients (collaborating with subcutaneous team and co-formulation teams)
• Proving global commercial input into market-specific lifecycle management options in low-middle income countries
• Ensuring we are bringing the best of the enterprise collectively to deliver meaningful progress against prioritized elements of the life-cycle management strategy.
• Ensuring that the overarching lifecycle management strategy and initiatives are well informed by ongoing insights and analytics around customers, competitors, and the broader environment.

Education:
Bachelor's degree
MBA or MS /PhD preferred.
Knowledge and Skills:
8+ years' working knowledge in pharmaceutical commercial roles (marketing, access, insights)
Strong management, communication, and teamwork skills; ability to influence without authority and partner successfully with business partners across the organization.
Strong problem solving, analytical, written/verbal communication, and presentation skills.
25% Travel, including some weekends.
Preferred Knowledge and Skills:
Prior commercial working knowledge on late lifecycle planning and/or biosimilars.
Prior oncology knowledge will be considered.
Employees working in roles that the Company determines require routine collaboration with external stakeholders, such as customer-facing commercial, or research-based roles, will be expected to comply not only with Company policy but also with policies established by such external stakeholders (for example, a requirement to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to access a facility or meet with stakeholders). Please understand that, as permitted by applicable law, if you have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 and an essential function of your job is to call on external stakeholders who require vaccination to enter their premises or engage in face-to-face meetings, then your employment may pose an undue burden to business operations, in which case you may not be offered employment, or your employment could be terminated. Please also note that, where permitted by applicable law, the Company reserves the right to require COVID-19 vaccinations for positions, such as in Global Employee Health, where the Company determines in its discretion that the nature of the role presents an increased risk of disease transmission.
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Expected salary range:
$175,440.00 - $276,200.00
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Employee Status:
Regular
Relocation:
Domestic
VISA Sponsorship:
No
Travel Requirements:
10%
Flexible Work Arrangements:
Hybrid
Shift:
Not Indicated
Valid Driving License:
No
Hazardous Material(s):
N/A
Requisition ID:R263163