Senior Marketing Manager

Viatris; Hatfield; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Top Employer Accreditation

Health insurance

Pension scheme

Volunteer days

Life cover

Job summary

Viatris UK is seeking a Senior Marketing Manager to lead strategic UK commercial planning for prescription assets from pre-launch through growth. You will drive cross-functional execution across Marketing, Medical and Market Access, ensuring NHS and customer needs shape asset strategy.

The role requires strong strategic thinking, UK market expertise, and the ability to translate global directions into local launch plans while managing partnerships with KOLs and NHS stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Significant pharmaceutical marketing/commercial experience within prescription medicines.
• Strong strategic thinking and commercial judgement in a complex environment.
• Solid understanding of the UK prescription medicines environment, NHS structures and market access.

Responsibilities

• Own the UK commercial strategy and long-term brand plan for assigned prescription assets, translating global direction to UK requirements.
• Lead end-to-end pre-launch and launch planning with an integrated roadmap and milestones.
• Lead cross-functional teams across Marketing, Medical, Market Access, Regulatory, Sales, Finance, and Compliance.
• Develop understanding of disease area, patient journey, and NHS priorities to inform strategic decisions.
• Partner with Medical and Market Access to address NICE/NHS access, funding, and formulary needs.
• Own competitive strategy and monitor market developments and launches.
• Manage budgets, forecasts, and business cases for assets, with scenario planning.
• Develop integrated HCP/customer strategies and omnichannel plans to support brand objectives.

Skills

Pharma marketing

Strategic leadership

NHS & UK market

Stakeholder management

Omnichannel marketing

Forecasting

Education

Bachelor's degree

ABPI qualification

Job description

Viatris UK Healthcare Viatris is a global healthcare company uniquely positioned to bridge the traditional divide between generics and brands, combining the best of both to more holistically address healthcare needs globally. With a mission to empower people worldwide to live healthier at every stage of life, we provide access at scale, currently supplying high-quality medicines to approximately 1 billion patients around the world annually and touching all of life's moments, from birth to the end of life, acute conditions to chronic diseases. We have been included on number of award lists that demonstrate the impact we are making. Our global portfolio includes best-in-class, iconic brand-name products as well as global key brands; generics, including branded and complex generics; and other offerings across a wide range of therapeutic areas. We are committed to helping create healthier communities worldwide through education, outreach and better access to treatment. For those driven to live their lives with purpose, Viatris helps employees realise their full potential by creating a collaborative culture that fosters courage and resilience. Viatris is more than just a place to work. This is a place to make a difference in the world.

The Role & What You Will Be Doing

The Senior Marketing Manager will provide strategic commercial leadership for new and complex prescription medicines from pre-launch through launch and in-market growth. The role will translate science, customer and patient insight, NHS dynamics, market access considerations, competitive intelligence and business objectives into a clear UK strategy and executable launch plan. The successful candidate will be a strategic thinker who is comfortable operating with ambiguity, challenging assumptions and leading cross-functional teams to make clear choices and deliver successful, compliant launches. Every day, we rise to the challenge to make a difference and here’s how the Senior Marketing Manager role will make an impact:

• Own the UK commercial strategy and long-term brand plan for assigned prescription assets, translating and constructively challenging Global/Regional direction to ensure UK market, NHS and customer requirements are reflected in asset strategy and launch planning, with clear choices on target patients, positioning, differentiation, strategic priorities and investment.
• Lead end-to-end pre-launch and launch planning, establishing the integrated launch roadmap, critical milestones, decision points, dependencies, readiness criteria, critical success factors, risks and contingency plans.
• Lead the cross-functional team across Marketing, Medical, Market Access, Regulatory, Sales, Finance, Supply, Insights, Digital and Legal/Compliance, creating clarity, pace, accountability and effective escalation.
• Develop a deep understanding of the disease area, patient journey, treatment pathway, prescribing environment, HCP needs and NHS priorities; translate customer, patient, KOL and market insight into strategic decisions and actions.
• Partner with Medical and Market Access to anticipate evidence, NICE/NHS access, funding, formulary, pathway and implementation requirements and ensure the commercial strategy addresses barriers to adoption and appropriate use.
• Own the UK competitive strategy, monitoring clinical developments, competitor launches, evidence, pricing/access, customer behaviour and market events; develop scenarios and response plans as the environment evolves.
• Own commercial assumptions, forecasts and business cases for assigned assets, including market size, uptake, penetration, launch timing and investment requirements; challenge assumptions and refresh scenarios as evidence changes.
• Lead annual and long-range planning and manage A&P investment, prioritising resources against the highest-value opportunities and agreed sales, profit, patient and uptake objectives.
• Develop an integrated HCP/customer strategy and compliant omnichannel plan, ensuring customer journeys, content, channels, field activity, education and digital engagement support the strategic objectives of the brand.
• Build appropriate relationships with KOLs, HCPs, patient organisations, NHS stakeholders and external partners to strengthen insight, market understanding and launch delivery, working within applicable governance requirements.
• Identify market-shaping and lifecycle opportunities, including pathway development, patient identification, service solutions, new indications/formulations and other opportunities that can strengthen long-term asset value.
• Ensure all activities comply with UK medicines legislation, the ABPI Code and relevant company policies and approval processes, partnering closely with Medical, Regulatory, Legal and Compliance.
• Define launch KPIs and leading indicators and use data, analytics, digital technology and approved AI tools to strengthen decision-making, customer engagement and marketing effectiveness; identify performance gaps early and drive optimisation and corrective action.

Accountability & Key Relationships

Own: UK prescription brand strategy / planning, positioning, customer strategy, launch planning and governance, commercial assumptions and forecasts, marketing investment within delegated authority and agency direction. Full P&L accountability. Influence: pricing and access strategy, evidence priorities, sales deployment, supply planning, wider resource allocation and broader asset business cases. Key relationships: Head of Marketing/Business Unit Head & Senior Leadership Team; Medical Affairs, Market Access, Regulatory, Sales, Finance, Supply, Insights, Digital and Compliance; Global/Regional teams; KOLs, HCPs, patient organisations and relevant NHS stakeholders.

About Your Skills & Experience

For this role, we’re looking for a candidate who has an effective combination of the following qualifications, skills and experiences:

• Significant pharmaceutical marketing/commercial experience within prescription medicines, with a strong track record of strategic brand leadership; pre-launch or launch experience with a complex or innovative asset strongly preferred.
• Exceptional strategic thinking and commercial judgement, with the ability to turn complex science, incomplete information and competing perspectives into clear choices, recommendations and action.
• Strong understanding of the UK prescription medicines environment, NHS structures and treatment pathways, market access/reimbursement and the requirements of launching and growing a POM brand.
• Proven ability to lead through influence, align cross-functional teams and engage senior stakeholders effectively within a complex matrix organisation.
• Strong capability in customer insight, segmentation, positioning, competitive intelligence, forecasting, business cases, performance analytics and omnichannel marketing.
• Strong external stakeholder engagement capability within a highly regulated prescription medicines environment.
• Excellent communication, influencing and presentation skills, with the confidence to challenge constructively, make clear recommendations and maintain momentum through change.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline; ABPI qualification or commitment to achieve it within an agreed timeframe.

At Viatris, we are dedicated to building a truly diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t fully align with every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.

Benefits at Viatris

At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others. Some of our benefits include the following on top of a competitive salary:

• Top Employer Accreditation, demonstrating that we provide excellent people policies and practices
• Competitive compensation package inclusive of annual discretionary bonus
• Focus on career progression with growth and development opportunities
• Hybrid work model
• Emphasis on Health & Wellness programmes
• 100% paid medical insurance and Employee Assistance Programme Life cover
• Excellent employer-matched pension scheme with Viatris contributing up to 11%
• 2 paid volunteer days per year

Diversity & Inclusion at Viatris

At Viatris, diversity and inclusion are essential to our mission. The diversity we foster in all aspects of our business can be one of our greatest strengths in redefining healthcare not as it is, but as it should be. If you would like to know more about what diversity, equity and inclusion means to us, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/Careers/Diversity-and-Inclusion

Sustainability at Viatris

Corporate social responsibility is fundamental to the Viatris mission. We work to advance responsible and sustainable operations and leverage our collective expertise to empower people to live healthier at every stage of life, recognizing that our actions affect the stakeholders and communities we serve. To learn more about our efforts, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/about-us/corporate-responsibility

At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others.

Viatris is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Viatris is a global healthcare company formed in 2020 through the combination of Mylan and Upjohn, a legacy division of Pfizer. By integrating the strengths of these two companies, including our global workforce, we aim to deliver increased access to affordable, quality medicines for patients worldwide, regardless of geography or circumstance. We believe in healthcare as it should be – empowering people worldwide to live healthier at every stage of life. Because of our unwavering belief that better access leads to better health, we leverage our best-in-class manufacturing and scientific expertise and proven commercial capabilities to bring quality medicines to patients when and where they need them.