Senior Brand Manager - Vaccines

Experis Austria; Greater London; On-site; GBP 129,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Experis Austria is hiring a Senior Brand Manager - Vaccines in London. The role focuses on leading vaccine brand strategy, driving sustainable growth, and delivering impactful omnichannel campaigns for the UK market.

You will collaborate with the Marketing Director and cross-functional teams to ensure execution excellence, data-driven decision making, and ABPI-compliant activities in a highly competitive environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive brand leadership experience in pharma/biotech sectors.
• Strong omnichannel marketing expertise with data-driven campaigns.
• Familiarity with ABPI and UK governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead brand strategy and execution to drive growth and achieve financial objectives.
• Develop and implement competitive omnichannel campaigns across the UK.
• Collaborate with Marketing Director and cross-functional teams for delivery.
• Ensure agile, disciplined execution and adherence to internal/ABPI frameworks.
• Translate customer insights into focused plans and value creation.
• Partner with Salesforce to optimize omni-channel effectiveness.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Operational execution

Omnichannel marketing

Agile leadership

Voice of the customer

Salesforce leadership

Innovation mindset

ABPI compliance

Job description

Senior Brand Manager - Vaccines
Senior Brand Manager - Vaccines

The location of the role is London (hybrid working).
The duration of the contract is 12 months.
The pay rate on offer is £700 - £750 per day (via Umbrella agency).

Role Summary

We are looking for an experienced Senior Brand Manager to join the Vaccines Marketing team on a 12-month fixed-term contract. This role will lead brand strategy and implementation to drive sustainable growth, deliver impactful omnichannel campaigns and ensure excellence in execution across the UK market.

Key responsibilities

This is a role that will need a deep understanding of vaccines, brand performance and identification of key barriers and drivers of growth. Working closely with the Marketing Director and a cross-functional team you will use this to develop and execute competitive and impactful strategies which deliver on the brand financial objectives.

• Strategic Leadership - Shape the brand strategy and business objectives. Optimising strategy based on the latest market and environmental insights, to develop a strategy which will drive the financial and competitive objectives.
• Operational Execution - You will lead operational planning, ensuring a clear alignment to the strategic plan. Through high responsibility for operational execution, you will ensure the operational plan is implemented in an agile way, with high discipline on delivering against operational cycle commitments and KPIs in order to deliver brand performance objectives.
• Omnichannel - Develop effective omnichannel implementation of an effective marketing mix, with a data driven approach, to ensure competitive campaigns that drive performance. Work closely with your omnichannel and cross-brand (Vx BU in particular) counterparts to ensure campaigns are customer centric and orchestrated across brands to best meet the needs of the customer and the business.
• Agile Leadership - lead your team in an agile way in order to effectively prioritise and develop and deliver the strategies and tactics with the available budget and resource which will have the biggest impact in a highly competitive external environment.
• Voice of the customer -you will bring a deep understanding of the customer. You will use this knowledge to uncover insight, develop more focused plans to create value. You will proactively share local insights with relevant stakeholders including the Global team.
• Salesforce Leadership - You will demonstrate leadership without authority to partner with the salesforce, to ensure they remain an effective channel within the marketing mix and a critical part of the omnichannel campaigns.
• Innovation Mindset - utilise the latest tech, including AI, in order to best meet evolving customer needs & preferences. Be tenacious in looking for 1% improvements in all aspects of the role, from content, campaigns and processes.
• Do the right thing and ensure all activities follow the requirements set out within our internal and external operating frameworks including the Code & ABPI code

Key skills and experience

• Extensive business experience within pharmaceutical or biotech industry, leading the brand strategy process, demonstrating commercial acumen
• Deep knowledge of the UK Health system
• Omnichannel marketing experience, using data to guide effective and impactful omnichannel campaigns.
• Proven experience of effectively developing and delivering on strategic plans and demonstratable discipline in operational execution through agile ways of working
• Understanding of ABPI code and UK governance environment
• Salesforce Leadership or demonstratable effective leadership without authority with a large salesforce.

Desirable skills and experience

• Strong negotiation and leadership skills
• Excellent oral, written communication, and presentation skills
• Must be a strong collaborator, team player, and individual contributor
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills
• Vaccines experience preferred