Hiring company: Merck
Job Description
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The position will plan, manage, and execute a scope of work in oncology market research that spans multiple indications. The key focus area of this position with include focus on brand strategy in pre-launch setting, successful launch and developing effective mechanisms for tracking performance metrics post-launch. The position is responsible for providing strategic input to the extended global and US marketing teams via primary market research projects, secondary data analysis and ad-hoc requests by proactively identifying strategic insights, answering key business questions, and applying all available resources to produce actionable business solutions and recommendations.
This position requires a strong understanding of primary market research methodologies to develop and design research approaches to develop accurate and actionable insights for new product launches and in-line products with multiple customer segments within the specialty arena. Past market pharmaceutical commercial roles (sales, marketing, access/reimbursement etc) and/or early indications experience is preferred. Experience in oncology or other specialty therapies is desired.
The individual will need to work across multiple partners within the extended oncology team members including Marketing, Promotions, Digital , Access & pricing.
At the same time, this Associate Director will have demonstrated consistently strong leadership skills with an ability to work independently in a rapidly changing environment with a transformational mindset, cultural awareness, and resiliency to change that enables them to effectively produce results for individual areas of responsibility. Primary stakeholders would be Global Brand Marketing/US Brand team/extended Brand teams.
Primary activities:
Leadership and/or involvement in primary market research projects including framing critical business questions, identification of information needs, identifying considerations from other data sources, development of research/analysis plans and management of the research process to deliver an objective understanding of key customers, competitors, products and current/future market developments.
Implement market research studies & manage budget of projects; brief agencies to deliver what is required especially strategic business insights in a compliant manner– understands vendor capabilities, quality requirements, and recommends innovative options.
Synthesize and develop market frameworks using a combination of primary research and secondary data (syndicated reports and databases) communicate an effective performance and market narrative.
Proactively communicate and facilitate discussion with Marketing/Commercial Teams to ensure that insights are considered in decision-making and planning; integrates a variety of sources/studies to present strategic options to the extended team; provides consultative guidance to Marketing/Commercial Team(s).
Collaborate proactively with cross-functional business partners including marketing communications, market access colleagues, commercial team, and the advertising agency to ensure optimal integration for the launch and post-launch activities.
Assist with analysis to inform the strategic assumptions that are built into brand forecasts and tracking of key performance indicators and benchmarking dashboards.
Take ownership of understanding the business challenge/information needs, considers alternatives, proposes appropriate method/approach, applies best practices, and proactively considers and/or develops new techniques and innovations to meet objectives.
Work on and lead ad-hoc franchise wide initiatives and/or projects as needed.
Education Minimum Requirement:
Bachelor’s degree – minimum requirement.
Preference with an MBA or Post graduate in quantitative methods.
Required Experience and Skills:
At least 3 years of experience in pharma US market research experience using both primary and secondary data sets.
Prior experience in roles supporting sales, forecasting, access and pricing, marketing, competitive intelligence, early indications is preferred.
Knowledge of oncology or other specialty therapy areas is strongly preferred as is prior experience on a global launch.
Preferred Experience and Skills:
Well developed analytical skills, strong problem-solving and demonstrated ability to think strategically and objectively.
Orientation toward collaboration/ team work, ability to lead teams in execution of market research, interest in ongoing learning.
Demonstrates strong leadership skills around customer focus, decision making, courage & candor, and fostering collaboration.
Ability and comfort in prioritizing and managing multiple requests from multiple marketing points and extended team members.
Working knowledge of multiple secondary data and epidemiology data with a fair understanding of strengths and limitations of each to help with data and performance triangulation needs.
Ability to communicate effectively and a strong desire to lead change in terms of developing Best Practices.
Our Human Health Division maintains a “patient first, profits later” ideology. The organization is comprised of sales, marketing, market access, digital analytics and commercial professionals who are passionate about their role in bringing our medicines to our customers worldwide.
Who we are …
We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, 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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