Therapeutic Area Marketer - Alzheimer’s Disease

Why Genentech

​​​​​​​We’re passionate about delivering on Our Promise to improve the lives of patients and create healthier communities for all. We foster a culture of inclusivity, integrity and creativity while boldly pursuing answers to the world’s most complex health challenges and transforming society.

About this Marketing Position

The Marketing organization influences decisions by establishing and communicating our full product value proposition across the full value chain, from payers, to health systems, to prescribers, to patients. Marketers are masterful storytellers - accountable to inform positioning using an insight-driven marketing strategy, deliver simple compelling customer-led content creation, and design outstanding integrated customer experiences in partnership with networked partners (e.g. Customer Engagement and Genentech Business Operations). Marketers strategically use resources and their network to drive patient outcomes for today’s innovations, and fuel tomorrow’s breakthroughs.

As the Neurodegeneration Squad prepares it’s portfolio to launch in the U.S., it also will prepare the overall healthcare system to more seamlessly adopt innovative therapies to help patients and caregivers living with Alzheimer’s Disease.  Our goal is to educate and partner with multiple segments of U.S. customers to transform how AD patients are cared for and supported.  This strategic marketer will be at the core of our vision and actions in the marketplace, and a champion within the commercial organization as we prepare for launch. This is integral to successfully delivering the Therapeutic Area (TA) Marketing Vision. This position will report into the Executive Marketing Director, Neurodegeneration. 

Key Job Responsibilities

Strategy

• Sets & guides overall Therapeutic Area (TA) / brand strategy (e.g., market boundaries, brand vision, positioning, and differentiation) closely collaborating with the Customer Marketer to update strategy as needed 

• Collaborates with all Customer Marketers to translate brand strategy to customer strategies

• Lead market / competitor analysis and develop market definition, brand positioning, and inform portfolio tradeoff decisions

• Accountable for establishing and coordinating both clinical and non-clinical brand strategy and coordination with cross-functional partners as required

• Helps define the customer journey, identifying key stages, segments, behaviors, , opportunities and factors that drive decision-making, collaborating closely with Customer Marketers and analytics partners

• Work collaboratively to ensure launch readiness, including competitive assessment, TPP development, and other pre-launch activities

• Drives key ongoing TA activities, including forecasting, and competitive preparation 

• Identifies and prioritizes business opportunities to drive desired brand goals (e.g., segment plays, patient types, lines of therapy, indications) including Health Equity considerations

Execution

• Accountable for high quality, compliant execution and alignment of brand strategy across all customer types (e.g. patients, providers, organized customers)

• Contributes to initiatives that have broader organizational impact across the 1Marketing Function and advancing progress towards our CMG outcomes

• Supports fit for purpose and flexibly deployed work teams across the CMG network based on their areas of expertise

• Responsible for communication of brand strategy with networks and partners, including field teams (brand-aligned and cross-portfolio roles)

People

• Works autonomously to make decisions and act, in close alignment with the full product value proposition, customer positioning, and Squad priorities 

• Identifies key internal network partners and ensures cross-marketing, cross-functional, and field alignment to TA/Brand strategy 

• Pursues continuous professional development by exploring new marketing technologies and platforms, and experimenting with novel engagement tools 

Demonstrates Proficiency within the following Key Competencies

TA Marketers are expected to consistently perform at a proficient level (proficient is defined as leveraging competencies across the business in a consistent, integrated way)

• Customer Understanding - I’m always learning about my customers, what they need, and the world they live in.

• Competitive Value Creation - I determine the relevant, competitive, and profitable value story we offer to customers.

• Strategy Development - I make smart choices about what efforts will help achieve customers’ goals and our goals.

• Integrated Campaign Development - I build compelling, motivating campaigns that get customers to take action.

• Content Development & Approval - I craft simple, meaningful stories in an efficient and fully compliant way.

• Execution Readiness - I rally the organization to plan, coordinate, and pull through the strategy together.

• Delivery & Optimization Across Channels - I make sure our story is reaching customers in a seamless, memorable experience.

• Measurement & Iteration - I evaluate everything we do, and adjust, stop, or start for continuous improvement.

• Project & Vendor Management - I manage projects, partners, and suppliers to drive on strategy, on time, on budget impact.

Minimum Candidate Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree

• Two years of marketing experience or one year of marketing experience and an MBA

• 5 years minimum work experience, with 3 years of commercial experience (e.g., market access, marketing, sales or customer insights) and/or strategic consulting experience may be considered.

• Direct experiences with interpreting and applying market, customer, product or competitor data and utilizing data effectively; Have experiences measuring success using metrics and applying data to nuance future actions

• Successful track record of strategic decision making, innovation, problem-solving and navigating uncharted territory without clear precedent.

Additional Desired Candidate Qualifications & Experience

• MBA or other related graduate level degree preferred 

• Marketing experience in relevant industries

• Experience in the managed care, Pharmaceutical or Biotech industry/pharmaceutical or biotech customer engagement

• Familiarity leading cross-functional governance meetings to ensure organizational alignment and support product demand forecasts

• Marketing and commercial experience within Alzheimer’s Disease, including experience working directly with Neurologists 

Location

• This position is based in South San Francisco, CA and offers a hybrid schedule working 3 days per week on campus.

• Relocation assistance is not available for this job posting

Roche Operating Principles

• Put Patients First: I always act as if patients I know are in the room and do what’s best for them

• Follow the science: I seek answers through experiments, data and debate, and act on facts

• Act as one team: I care, collaborate and commit without boundaries, and trust others to do their part

• Embrace differences: I seek diverse perspectives, invite opposing views, and challenge myself and others

• Accelerate learning: I push to learn new things even if difficult, and openly share my successes and failures

• Simplify radically: I eliminate complexity, reuse with pride, and accomplish more with less

• Make impact now: I take accountability to do what’s right, deliver value fast, and don’t wait for certainty

• Think long term: I choose actions today that benefit future generations

The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of South San Francisco, CA is $161,800 - $300,600. Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law.  A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and Company performance.  This position also qualifies for the benefits detailed at the link provided below.

 Benefits

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