Associate Director Global Oncology Marketing Launch Excellence

Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC.

The Global Oncology pipeline offers great promise over a broad range of diseases with high unmet medical need with more than ten products potentially launching in the next five years. Global Oncology will be a critical driver of company growth and most importantly, significant patient impact – this is an opportunity to join an organization with a team of colleagues with high energy, passion and patient-driven purpose.

Reporting to the Executive Director, Integrated Business Operations & Launch Excellence, the Associate Director, Global Oncology Marketing is responsible for leading the launch planning activities for two to three priority Global Oncology launches. With several priority launches occurring in the next five years within Global Oncology and many more across the organization, this role will be essential in ensuring that we have consistency, coordination and efficiencies in our launch planning activities.

This role will support flawless product launch planning by leading the execution of the Launch Excellence Framework.

• Lead two to three priority product launches as the launch planner, responsible for launch readiness by ensuring key launch milestones are identified, resourced and successfully achieved
• Drive strategic launch planning via the Launch Planning Tool and ensure consistency and evolution of all tools and processes to streamline and improve launch planning
• Utilize dashboards and metrics to identify and elevate launch readiness risks, and partner to problem solve and mitigate risks as appropriate
• Support knowledge management and best practice sharing across the organization
• Work in close partnership with the Global Oncology brand teams and cross-functional colleagues to ensure execution excellence with our must-win launches
• Support the Executive Director, Integrated Business Operations & Launch Excellence as needed on operational initiatives

• Provide input into the development of global standards for launch planning, processes, and tools to drive excellence
• Ensure global standards for launch planning, processes, and tools to drive excellence are implemented across global oncology
• Collaborate with centralized functions (e.g., Global Marketing Launch Excellence team) and other HH Marketing Launch Planners) to support the evolution of processes or tools and to optimize cross-enterprise planning
• Utilize consistent metrics to evaluate launch success and dashboards to easily depict progress and report on these

• Required:
  
  Bachelor's degree
• Preferred: MBA

• Minimum of 5 years pharmaceutical experience
• Strong commercial and business acumen
• Proactive leadership style with the ability to advance work with urgency and results
• Inclusive leadership style with strong collaboration skills and ability to build trust and credibility cross-functional teams
• Ability to lead and influence without authority
• Demonstrated excellence in project management and/or launch planning
• Demonstrated ability to lead multiple strategic initiatives simultaneously and drive execution and results
• Demonstrated ability to solve problems and identify solutions
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Previous commercial experience with a focus in marketing
• Previous launch planning experience
• Understanding of pharmaceutical commercialization landscape and trends

Rahway NJ or Upper Gwynedd, PA (hybrid work model)

• Commercialization Strategies
• Data-Driven Decision Making
• Global Marketing Strategy
• Influencing Without Authority
• Innovation
• Market Access
• Market…