Director – Global Marketing Oncology

Job Description

Our company is a global healthcare leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products. We are committed to translating breakthrough science into medicines that help create a healthier future for people around the world.

Our Oncology organization is dedicated to delivering innovative medicines that extend and improve the lives of people with cancer worldwide. We bring together scientific rigor, commercial excellence, and disciplined launch execution to help ensure that patients who need our medicines can access them.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Global Marketing Director to shape the commercial strategy for a novel bispecific antibody with the potential to represent an important and innovative approach to cancer treatment.

The Global Marketing Director will serve as the commercial strategy lead with responsibility for developing foundational commercial insights, shaping global asset and portfolio strategy, and advancing launch preparedness. This leader will partner closely with disease & asset-area clinical, regulatory, medical affairs, market access, regional, and brand strategy teams to ensure this new asset is positioned for successful development and future commercialization.

Key Responsibilities may include but not limited to:

Global Asset and Portfolio Strategy:

• Lead development of the global commercial strategy for the bispecific antibody, leveraging the early L3 strategic framework and aligning asset priorities with broader disease-area and portfolio strategies.
• Partner with asset and disease teams to define indication-specific commercial strategies that support the overall bispecific antibody opportunity.
• Provide commercial guidance and strategic input to support clinical development planning, target product profile refinement, and evidence-generation priorities.

Market Insights, Forecasting, and Competitive Intelligence:

• Oversee market research and insight generation for the new asset in collaboration with disease-area, asset, brand strategy, and market research partners.
• Guide forecasting, opportunity assessment, and market-shaping analyses to inform planning assumptions, investment decisions, and strategic trade-offs.
• Establish a bispecific landscape tracking and data-monitoring plan to assess evolving performance, competitive dynamics, and implications for positioning.

Launch Preparedness and Commercial Execution;

• Establish and manage key launch-planning milestones, timelines, and activities to support future commercialization readiness.
• Drive early commercial planning activities, including market development, lexicon development, scientific platform development, and customer engagement planning.
• Guide generic name, brand name, and trademark development work in partnership with relevant internal stakeholders.

Cross-Functional and Regional Leadership;

• Build trusted relationships with global commercial disease, asset, and brand strategy teams, as well as clinical, regulatory, manufacturing, market access, medical affairs, HEOR, publications, forecasting, finance, legal, compliance, regional, and local partners.
• Serve as the commercial point of contact for medical affairs, publications, HEOR and other related workstreams supporting the new asset.
• Partner with regions and key markets to incorporate external customer insights, launch considerations, and local market dynamics into global strategy.

Key Capabilities:

• Strong strategic thinking and product strategy leadership, with the ability to translate complex clinical, competitive, and market dynamics into clear commercial direction.
• High scientific and clinical acumen, particularly in oncology, with the ability to engage effectively on development strategy and evidence-generation priorities.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence across complex global, regional, and cross-functional organizations.
• Action-oriented, solution-focused approach with strong business judgment and the ability to drive progress amid ambiguity.
• Excellent communication, executive presence, and presentation skills, with the ability to clearly articulate recommendations to senior leaders.
• Collaborative leadership style that fosters trust, alignment, and accountability across diverse stakeholders.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor's degree.
• Minimum of 8 years of commercial experience in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, including experience in Marketing, sales, market access, pricing, and or marketing support.
• Understanding of oncology market dynamics, scientific innovation, healthcare policy, reimbursement, and access considerations.
• Experience developing and implementing strategy in a complex, cross-functional environment.
• Strong business acumen, analytical capability, and ability to drive key initiatives forward.
• Demonstrated collaboration skills across commercial, cross-divisional, regional, and local teams.
• Strong leadership, problem-solving, written and verbal communication, and presentation skills.
• Ability to influence without authority and communicate clearly across the enterprise and to senior leadership.

Preferred:

• Advanced degree, such as an MBA.
• Global marketing experience.
• Oncology experience.
• Launch planning or launch execution experience.
• Pipeline, early asset, or clinical development experience.
• Experience providing commercial input into target product profiles, regulatory filing strategy, launch readiness reviews, market research, organized customer engagement, demand and revenue forecasting, P&L forecasting, BD&L activities, product development teams, or agency partner management.
• Experience partnering with finance and business planning teams to support brand forecasting and S&OP processes.
• Previous team leadership experience.

This position requires approximately 15–20% travel, including some weekends.

Required Skills:

Business Development Initiatives, Business Planning, Direct Marketing, Executive Presence, Financial Acumen, Inclusive Leadership, Market Analysis, Market Development, Market Forecasts, Market Research, Oncology Marketing, Portfolio Strategies, Product Launch Support, Product Positioning, Results-Oriented, Strategic Leadership, Strategic Planning, Strategic Thinking

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The primary location for this posting is:

USA - New Jersey - Rahway

Where required by law, the compensation range for this role is provided below.

The salary range for the primary location of this role is:

$190,800.00 - $300,300.00

This range reflects the Company's reasonable expectation of the base salary applicable to this role at the time of posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs. The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits. Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days. More information about benefits is available at https://jobs.merck.com/us/en/compensation-and-benefits.

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San Francisco Residents Only: We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

Los Angeles Residents Only: We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance

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Job Posting End Date:

11/5/2028

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