Executive Director, Global Marketing, Companion Animal, Parasiticides Lead

# Executive Director, Global Marketing, Companion Animal, Parasiticides Lead Rahway, NJFull-Time# Executive Director, Global Marketing, Companion Animal, Parasiticides Lead Rahway, NJFull-Time Oct 03, 2026

Marketing
** Job Description
** The Companion Animal (CA) Business Unit leads the strategy development and execution across markets throughout the world. It drives global marketing strategies and activities to drive successful key company CA launches and maximizes the value of in-line products. Our Animal Health Division has a very robust pipeline of new products and initiatives providing customer benefits and driving business growth*.
* You will lead the brand and product management of existing and new Therapeutics and Parasiticides, marketing strategy, campaign and key message development to drive successful global strategic launches of major new innovative products. The Companion Animal Pharmaceutical Lead and the franchise marketing teams are expected to drive innovation to capture the most value at the customer level in alignment with division's strategic initiatives.

This is a new position requiring a leader with vision, strong market understanding, and outstanding leadership and influencing skills. You will be responsible for setting the direction for all existing and future pharmaceutical products including parasiticides and the full therapeutic range. You will also have responsibility for influencing category growth, the company's category portfolio strategy and synergies between all product and service offerings within the pharmaceutical franchises.

Further, in conjunction with Research and Development, you will be driving the future pipeline direction utilizing your deep understanding of the needs of customer segments and motivators that drive behavior.

The Companion Animal Pharmaceutical Lead reports directly to the Associate Vice President of the Companion Animal Business Unit and will lead a core team of 4 marketing experts but with a scope of influence extending globally, leading extended teams consisting of 10 to 100 marketing and sales team members across all geographies.

This position is an essential and prominent leadership position and will interact and influence at all levels of the company as needed (including Senior Executives) to ensure optimized and successful CA marketing strategy, competitive differentiation, and creating cross-portfolio value.
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* Primary Responsibilities:

*** Accountable to lead within brand and global cross portfolio strategy, understand competitive dynamics above product level, identify growth opportunities, define competitive advantages, and set a work standard of excellence.
* Direct, oversee and develop customer strategies and portfolio marketing/ commercial strategies for all existing and future pharmaceutical products including parasiticides and full therapeutic range within and across categories, ensuring alignment with and integration of regional and key local market needs and growth opportunities.
* Develop and gain company agreement for plans to drive category growth, the company's category portfolio strategy, and synergies between all product and service offerings within the pharmaceutical franchises.
* Craft messaging and positioning in the categories; conduct competitive and market analysis to determine and highlight key differentiators.
* Build, further develop, and leverage relationships with industry to grow our Animal Health Division in market leadership for companion animal.
* Direct planning, creation, and launch creative campaigns that resonate with Veterinary professionals and Pet Owner audiences.
* Lead customer-centric thinking and craft programs to meet those target audiences.
* Establish goals and create strategy for meeting…