Marketing Lead

Job Description

Marketing Lead – Transform Growth, Shape Strategy, Build High-Performing Teams

Our Oncology team is dedicated to delivering breakthrough innovations that extend and improve the lives of cancer patients worldwide. Our team of forward-thinking individuals achieve 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.

Why This Role?

This individual will have the opportunity to:

• Be part of a team to expand access to the largest and most significant oncology product in the world

• Be part of the our company TW/HK/Macau Cluster

• Work on end-to-end brand lifecycle management from new launches to LOE planning

• Lead and develop talented marketing professionals.

• Report directly to the Executive Director, Cluster BUD

We are seeking a commercially minded and inspirational marketing leader to drive business growth, shape market strategy, and develop a high-performing team.

This is a unique opportunity to lead a critical franchise, influence enterprise-wide decisions, and make a meaningful impact on patients, customers, and business results.

What You'll Do

Lead and inspire high-performing talent:  Coach, mentor, and develop a team of 3–5 marketers, fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous growth while building a best-in-class marketing organization.

Shape the strategic direction of the business:  Develop and execute local marketing strategies that align with business unit priorities and broader regional and global objectives, ensuring sustainable long-term growth.

Drive commercial success: Own franchise growth and P&L contribution targets, translating strategic ambitions into actionable, data-driven plans that deliver measurable business impact.

Champion executional excellence:  Oversee the end-to-end marketing lifecycle, including campaign strategy, launch planning, budget management, resource allocation, and performance optimization to maximize return on investment.

Influence across the organization:  Act as a trusted strategic partner across Medical, Sales, Market Access & External Affairs, Regulatory Affairs, Legal, and other key functions to ensure seamless execution and alignment around shared goals.

Build capabilities for the future: Strengthen marketing capabilities, processes, and governance to enhance agility, accelerate decision-making, and elevate analytical and commercial excellence across the organization.

Engage and influence senior leaders:  Present strategic recommendations, business cases, and performance updates to senior leadership, proactively identifying opportunities, managing risks, and driving informed decision-making.

Ensure integrity and compliance:  Champion the highest standards of compliance and governance, ensuring all marketing activities meet local regulatory requirements and company policies.

Turn insights into competitive advantage:  Leverage deep customer, market, and competitive insights to inform strategy, define meaningful KPIs, and continuously optimize brand and portfolio performance.

This role is ideal for a strategic yet hands-on leader who thrives on building teams, delivering commercial results, and turning market insights into competitive advantage.

WHAT YOU MUST HAVE

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences or a related field.

• Experience: 8+ years of pharmaceutical marketing experience, preferably in oncology; demonstrated experience leading product managers, managing high-value brands, and supporting products across different lifecycle stages.

• Commercial acumen: Proven track record of developing and executing strategies that deliver measurable commercial impact.

• Cross-functional influence: Strong experience collaborating with Medical Affairs, Sales, Market Access & External Affairs, Regulatory Affairs, Legal, and other key functions.

• Leadership and people management: Experience building, coaching, and developing high-performing teams, with strong performance management capability.

• Analytical skills: Strong comfort with data-driven decision-making, KPI setting, and performance analytics.

• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and Mandarin.

• Regulatory and compliance awareness: Strong understanding of local pharmaceutical regulations and industry codes of practice.

Key competencies and behaviors

• Strategic thinker with strong hands-on execution capability.

• Strong stakeholder management, influencing, and communication skills.

• Balanced focus on people and results, with the ability to drive performance through the team.

• Collaborative, team-first mindset with a strong sense of ownership.

• High integrity and strong commitment to compliance and governance.

Who we are

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

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Required Skills:

Agency Management, Agency Management, Analytical Thinking, Brand Management, Business Compliance, Commercial Excellence, Competitive Advantages, Competitor Analysis, Compliance Awareness, Content Creation, Creativity, Cross-Functional Leadership, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Data Analysis, Digital Marketing, Local Marketing, Market Access, Marketing Strategy Implementation, Market Research, Medical Affairs, NHS Management, Oncology Marketing, Organizational Performance Management, People Leadership, Regulatory Affairs Compliance {+ 2 more}

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Job Posting End Date:

10/30/2026

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