Associate Director

How will your role help us transform hope into reality?

The Associate Director, US Patient Marketing is a critical role responsible for shaping how the AYVAKIT (avapritinib) brand connects with patients and caregivers across the treatment journey. This individual translates the core consumer strategy and narrative into clear, cohesive branded experiences that drive engagement, consideration and long-term connection to the brand. 

Operating within a highly cross-functional environment, this role partners closely with omnichannel, patient engagement, and broader commercial stakeholders to ensure branded strategy is consistently and effectively activated. Success in this role requires strong strategic thinking, the ability to translate data and insights into clear decisions and a focus on driving measurable impact and return on investment. The individual must be able to influence across stakeholders to drive alignment and momentum and identify new approaches to strengthen branded patient engagement and business impact. 

This role reports to the US Direct-to-Patient Team Lead within the Commercial organization. 

AYVAKIT is approved to treat patients with the treatment of adults with unresectable or metastatic GIST harboring PDGFRA D842V mutation (2020) and Advanced Systemic Mastocytosis (2021). AYVAKIT has the potential to become a standard of care in systemic mastocytosis with an anticipated filing in nonadvanced systemic mastocytosis in the second half of 2022.

What will you do?

• Lead the development and stewardship of the branded patient journey, including messaging strategy and overall experience design across patient-facing touchpoints, ensuring alignment with the overall consumer strategy and AYVAKIT core narrative
• Own the development and execution of core branded initiatives, including campaigns, patient materials and onboarding experiences, ensuring alignment to the patient journey strategy and business objectives
• Define branded success metrics and translate insights and performance data into strategic decisions, driving ongoing optimization and measurable business impact
• Guide branded omnichannel strategy in partnership with omnichannel lead, ensuring consistent messaging, effective activation and impact across key channels
• Own and evolve the branded messaging architecture, including core claims, and content strategy, ensuring ongoing differentiation, clarity and consistency
• Identify critical moments and barriers within the patient journey and develop strategies to drive engagement, consideration, and persistence
• Support the US annual brand planning process, including development of the branded tactical roadmap, ensuring alignment to business priorities and patient strategy
• Lead agency partners and collaborate closely with internal team members, providing clear direction, feedback, and decision-making to drive high-quality execution and reduce rework
• Represent branded strategy in cross-functional and leadership settings, clearly articulating rational to drive alignment and accelerate decision making
• Act as a thought partner in advancing consumer innovation and future growth opportunities, identifying new ways to strengthen engagement and drive business impact

What minimum qualifications do we require?

• BA/BS degree required
• Minimum of 6 years of experience in the biotech/pharmaceutical industry, including direct involvement in marketing, sales, or market development activities. Previous in-line marketing experience a must. 
• Required travel: Up to 25%

What additional qualifications will make you a stronger candidate?

• Advanced degree, MBA, or other equivalent experience preferred
• Experience owning patient-facing marketing strategy and execution for pharmaceutical or biotech products in the US; Expertise in branded strategy development, including patient journey design, messaging architecture and campaign development
• Demonstrated ability to translate patient insights, market research and data into clear strategic direction
• Experience working within omnichannel environments, ensuring effective pull-through of strategy across digital, media and patient engagement channels
• Strong understanding of performance measurement and analytics, with the ability to connect marketing activities to patient behavior and business outcomes
• Demonstrated track record of leading agency partners and driving high-quality strategic and creative output
• Proven ability to influence without authority and work cross-functionally to align and deliver brand strategy
• Strong written and communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate strategy and rationale
• Ability to operate independently in a fast-paced environment, balancing multiple priorities while maintaining strategic clarity
• Flexibility and the ability to adapt strategy and approach in response to evolving business needs
• Launch experience and commercialization of new products preferred
• Motivated by patient focus, urgency and personal commitment to high performance, results and compliance.
• Commitment to Blueprint Medicines’ Core Values: Patients First, Thoughtfulness, Urgency, Trust, Optimism

Why Blueprint?

At Blueprint Medicines, patients are our purpose. Their needs ignite our innovation, fuel our urgency and inspire us to go further - faster. We bet on bold people who want to grow, push boundaries and lead meaningful change. Here, you’ll do the most impactful work of your career - because our commitment to changing lives isn’t just what we do, it’s who we are.

Patients are waiting. Are you ready to make the leap?

Compensation and Benefits 

The base salary hiring range for this position will be $190,000 -- $240,000.* Actual base salary offered for this position will be based on a number of job-related factors, including, but not limited to: experience (including skills and competencies), education, training and internal equity.

This position is also eligible for the following:

• Participation in annual bonus program based on Company and individual performance, subject to the standard terms and conditions of the program.
• Inclusive total rewards offerings focused on employee choice and professional and personal well-being. These include: medical, dental and vision benefits; Modern Health mental health and coaching benefits; medical and dependent care FSAs; generous paid time off (typically includes one-week well-being shutdowns at mid-year and year-end); subsidized commuting or parking benefits; 401(k) with match; generous paid medical, parental and family leave programs; disability benefits and more.

*Based on reasonable estimate for this job at the time of posting; ranges are reviewed periodically and subject to change.

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Equal Employment Opportunity

At Blueprint Medicines, we foster an environment of fair treatment and full participation for all of our employees as we navigate complex challenges in pursuing our mission to improve the lives of patients. We celebrate our unique differences and varied career and life experiences so that we can sustain our diverse culture and ensure everyone feels accepted. We are committed to non-discrimination, equal employment opportunity, as well as an inclusive recruitment process. We consider all qualified applicants based on merit and without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal or state law.  

We will make reasonable accommodations, absent undue hardship, for qualified individuals with known disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability in need of an accommodation with the application or recruiting process, please reach out to [email protected]. We are also an E-Verify Employer. For more information, please see our EEO Policy Statement, the E-Verify Participation Poster, the Right to Work Poster, and/or the EEO Know Your Rights Poster.

Blueprint Medicines, a Sanofi company, is a global biopharmaceutical company that invents life-changing medicines. We seek to improve and extend patients' lives by solving important medical problems, with a focus on allergy/inflammation and oncology/hematology. Our approach begins by targeting the root causes of disease, using deep scientific knowledge in our core focus areas and drug discovery expertise across multiple therapeutic modalities. We have a track record of success with two approved medicines, including AYVAKIT/AYVAKYT (avapritinib) which we are bringing to patients with SM in the U.S. and Europe. Leveraging our established research, development, and commercial capability and infrastructure, we aim to significantly scale our impact by advancing a broad pipeline of programs ranging from early science to advanced clinical trials in mast cell diseases and solid tumors. For more information, visit www.BlueprintMedicines.com and follow us on X (formerly Twitter; @BlueprintMeds) and LinkedIn.