Executive Director, Global Oncology Marketing, Lung
Listed on 2026-09-27
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Management
Corporate Strategy
Executive Director, Global Oncology – Lung Cancer
Our Global Oncology team is dedicated to delivering breakthrough innovations that extend and improve the lives of cancer patients worldwide. Our team of forward-thinking individuals achieves this through an unwavering commitment 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 an Executive Director, Global Oncology – Lung Cancer, reporting to the Associate Vice President, Lung/ GI/ KRAS.
This role is for a strategic leader with an enterprise mindset who is a self-starter, enjoys solving complex and strategic issues/topics, can effectively engage senior internal stakeholders, and thrives on leading and influencing broadly across the organization to drive positive, tangible outcomes across the Lung cancer portfolio. Additionally, the leader will help build and develop a high performing team who will cultivate a winning attitude and resilience operating in a challenging therapeutic area.
The Executive Director, Global Oncology – Lung Cancer will be responsible for defining and executing the global commercial strategy for our Lung cancer portfolio.
Key responsibilities include- Set and lead the global Lung Cancer strategy
- Define the end-to-end global commercial strategy for current and future Lung indications.
- Translate scientific innovation and clinical data into clear, differentiated value propositions and strategic frameworks for Lung cancers including Market Overviews and Assessments, Target Product Profiles, and Forecasts.
- Ensure strategies are informed by robust insights into customers, competitors, and the evolving standard of care across key Lung tumor types
- Steer the development and delivery of global sales forecast guidance for Lung indications in collaboration with Asset Teams, Forecasting and Finance.
- Drive cross-functional and cross-regional alignment on key planning assumptions
- Partner closely with key functions, including Global Market Access, Medical Affairs, Regulatory Affairs, Clinical Development, HEOR, Manufacturing, IP/Legal, Competitive Intelligence, and Finance to build integrated Lung strategies and execution plans.
- Collaborate with Regional and Local Marketing Organizations to ensure local market needs and insights shape global Lung strategy and to support in-market execution.
- Represent the commercial Lung perspective in key internal governance forums and cross-functional asset/tumor teams.
- Contribute to portfolio and business development discussions related to Lung cancer, including assessment of external business development opportunities.
- Identify and drive impactful disease level initiatives that support the achievement of goals across the Lung portfolio (e.g., Early Detection/ Screening Initiatives)
- Provide leadership/line management to a team of global marketers and/or tumor leads supporting the Lung portfolio.
- Build and develop core commercial competencies and oncology expertise across the team, fostering talent development and succession planning.
- Champion our inclusive ways of working and drive a culture of collaboration, accountability, and innovation.
- Manage ad hoc strategic and operational issues related to the Lung portfolio, including access, supply, competitive response, and policy/environmental changes.
- Ensure timely communication and alignment with senior leaders on key risks, opportunities, and performance drivers within the Lung business.
- A dynamic executive with significant business acumen and demonstrated leadership in oncology and/or specialty pharmaceutical markets.
- Proven ability to articulate a compelling vision and direction for a complex, global tumor area and to translate that vision into clear strategies and execution plans.
- Inspirational and motivational personal leadership qualities that inspire trust, respect, credibility, and confidence of peers, colleagues, and external partners.
- Demonstrated ability to lead teams through ambiguity and organizational change, with a willingness to challenge the status quo.
- Strong collaboration skills and ability to influence without direct authority across…
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