Associate Director, Campaign Development Lead, US Oncology Business Unit Engagement Team - Precision Medicine
Verona Pharma
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The Associate Director will lead the identification, design, execution, oversight, and optimization of the US Oncology Healthcare Professional (HCP) marketing campaigns and programs that support the strategic imperatives for our Precision Medicine agile team.
Primary Responsibilities:
Leading the development, measurement, and optimization of digital campaigns to support marketing strategy.
Knowing the customer: a deep understanding of customer segments, needs, channel preferences and profitability/life-time value.
Leading the development of HCP marketing materials and digital assets, inclusive of online video, emails, display/banner ads, alerts, web content, media/paid search content optimization, social media, point-of-care assets, print, and disease awareness assets.
Shaping the key strategic communication objective choices for assigned tumor(s) ensuring all tactics align to the customer experience plan and achieve desired customer experience.
Knowing the business: behavioral, and communications objectives and prioritizing the development of assets using insights and digital knowledge, including customer experience best practices, and targeting.
Working in an agile mindset (addressing ambiguity, working comfortably outside of existing processes or structures, establishing networks across stakeholders to drive influence and alignment, testing, and learning to drive a culture of innovation, focusing on the customer experience, committing to applying agile values and principles).
Partnering with the US marketing team in the annual Integrated Profit Plan (IPP) process and contributing to the development of the brand building tools (L3).
Working collaboratively with multiple internal teams including Marketing, Channel Strategy and Engagement (CSE), Market Research, Analytics, and Operations
Managing the day-to-day interactions with the agency partner(s) and other outsourced vendors; leading the creation and monitoring of agency digital scopes of work (SOW) and participating in the bi-annual agency evaluation process.
Managing applicable budgets.
Evaluating the revalidation of marketing and digital assets.
Implementing Safety Label Updates (SLUs) on promotional assets and ensuring compliance with Subpart E regulations, when applicable.
Demonstrating our company's Ways of Working principles and enterprise leadership skills.
Conducting all activities in full compliance with our company policies, values, and standards.
Required:
Bachelor's degree required.
Minimum of 4 years’ experience in marketing, marketing communications, or marketing support.
Demonstrated ability to execute a brand or customer marketing strategy.
Experience and success in cross-functional leadership and teamwork.
Strong knowledge of marketing principles.
Campaign and Message development experience.
Excellent planning and presentation skills.
Strong communication skills.
Agency/vendor management skills.
Preferred Experience and Skills:
Master of Business Administration preferred.
Experience in US HCP marketing, HCP marketing communications, or US HCP marketing support of pharmaceutical products.
Knowledge/experience with the Oncology Marketplace.
Product launch or launch planning experience.
Market research experience.
Knowledge of Company commercial, regulatory, and legal compliance policies.
Experience in the end-to-end Medical/Legal (Promotion Review Team) review and delivery
process.
Veeva/Promo Mats experience.
Required Skills:
Content Creation, Digital Marketing, Marketing Campaign Development, Marketing Strategies, Omnichannel Marketing, Oncology Marketing, Strategic Thinking, US MarketingPreferred Skills:
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The salary range for this role is
$142,400.00 - $224,100.00This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs.
The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable.
We offer a comprehensive package of benefits. Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days. More information about benefits is available at https://jobs.merck.com/us/en/compensation-and-benefits.
You can apply for this role through https://jobs.merck.com/us/en (or via the Workday Jobs Hub if you are a current employee). The application deadline for this position is stated on this posting.
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