Strategic Marketing Manager, Pharmaceutical Segment

Phillips Medisize; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Phillips Medisize seeks a Strategic Marketing Manager for the Pharmaceutical Segment to shape growth across CDMO services and drug delivery. The role identifies market opportunities, shapes growth strategies, and translates insights into commercial actions.

The position collaborates with product development, engineering, operations, quality, regulatory, and sales to align market needs with business priorities while establishing performance measures to improve marketing effectiveness.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in marketing, business, life sciences, pharmaceutical sciences, or a related field.
• 5+ years in strategic marketing, upstream/portfolio marketing, or commercialization within healthcare/pharma/life sciences.
• Experience translating market insights into actionable marketing plans and commercialization initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute strategic marketing plans across the Pharmaceutical segment (CDMO services and drug delivery).
• Drive segment strategies and growth plans for parenteral and inhalation drug delivery.
• Identify market opportunities and growth priorities through analysis of customers, competitors, technology and industry trends.
• Conduct market and portfolio assessments to support strategic planning and business decisions.
• Collaborate with segment leadership and cross-functional teams to develop annual and long-range growth strategies.
• Develop positioning, messaging, value propositions, buyer personas, and customer journeys.

Skills

Strategic marketing

Portfolio management

Market research

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Go-to-market planning

Customer segmentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in marketing, business, life sciences, pharmaceutical sciences, or related field

Master's degree in business, marketing, life sciences, pharmaceutical sciences, or related field

Job description

Your Job

Phillips Medisize is seeking a Strategic Marketing Manager for our Pharmaceutical Segment to join our global strategic marketing organization. This role is integral in supporting commercial and marketing strategies that drive growth across our pharmaceutical CDMO business and drug delivery portfolio. The position will play a key role in identifying market opportunities, shaping growth strategies, and translating market insights into commercial actions. Working across both our pharmaceutical CDMO offerings and drug delivery solutions, this individual will support portfolio strategy, go-to-market planning, and strategic initiatives across the Pharmaceutical Segment.

Our Team

From discovery to delivery, the world’s leading pharmaceutical, medtech and in vitro diagnostic companies trust Phillips Medisize to help them design and commercialize lifesaving and enhancing technologies and therapy solutions. We are a privately held CDMO, and our 6,000+ employees collaborate with industry leaders and innovators across three continents and 30 development and manufacturing sites to design, engineering and manufacture drug delivery systems, medical devices and diagnostic tools that save and improve the quality of life for millions of patients annually.

What You Will Do

• Develop and execute strategic marketing plans that support growth across the Pharmaceutical segment, including CDMO services and drug delivery solutions.
• Drive segment strategies and growth plans for assigned pharmaceutical markets, including parenteral and inhalation drug delivery.
• Identify market opportunities and growth priorities through customer, competitive, technology, and industry analysis.
• Conduct market and portfolio assessments to inform strategic planning, business decisions, and commercialization priorities.
• Partner with Pharmaceutical Segment leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to develop annual and long-range growth strategies.
• Develop and refine positioning, messaging, value propositions, buyer personas, and customer journeys that communicate differentiated customer value.
• Support go-to-market planning and commercialization activities for new and existing solutions, capabilities, and platforms.
• Collaborate with Sales and Business Development teams on account planning, opportunity development, and customer engagement strategies.
• Partner with product development, engineering, operations, quality, regulatory, and commercial teams to align market needs with business and technology priorities.
• Work with the Integrated Marketing Communications team to develop campaigns, thought leadership, sales enablement tools, and customer-facing content.
• Serve as an internal resource on pharmaceutical markets, drug delivery trends, customer needs, and competitive dynamics.
• Establish and monitor marketing performance measures to assess effectiveness and guide continuous improvement.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor's degree in marketing, business, life sciences, pharmaceutical sciences, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in strategic marketing, upstream marketing, product marketing, portfolio marketing, or commercialization within the healthcare, pharmaceutical, medical device, or life sciences industry; or
• Background in the biopharmaceutical, drug delivery, medical device, pharmaceutical services, or CDMO industry.
• Direct experience with primary and secondary research methodologies, competitive analysis, and data analysis.
• Experience translating market insights into actionable recommendations, marketing plans, or commercialization initiatives.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Master's degree in business, marketing, life sciences, pharmaceutical sciences, or a related field with relevant experience.
• Understanding of the pharmaceutical and/or drug delivery CDMO industry, including complex B2B products, services, platforms, or technical solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to lead go-to-market planning and commercialization efforts for assigned products, services, platforms, or strategic initiatives.
• Experience developing market strategies and growth initiatives across global pharmaceutical markets, including Asia.
• Proven capability in conducting market assessments, including market sizing, segmentation, customer research, competitive analysis, and portfolio analysis.
• Expertise in developing market positioning, differentiated value propositions, buyer personas, customer journeys, and commercial messaging.
• Ability to partner effectively with Sales and Business Development on account planning, opportunity development, customer engagement strategies, and sales enablement initiatives.
• Success leading cross-functional teams and driving alignment across commercial, technical, operational, and marketing stakeholders.
• Familiarity with marketing performance measures and using data-driven insights to improve marketing effectiveness.
• Experience working within a global, matrixed organization and collaborating across functions, regions, and time zones.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Who We Are

Phillips Medisize, a Molex company, collaborates with industry leaders to design and manufacture drug delivery systems, medical devices and diagnostic tools that save and improve the quality of life for millions of patients annually. With our dedicated team of 6,000+ employees in 29 locations around the world, we share our customers’ mindset that every product is critical to a healthcare provider and their patients somewhere in the world. Molex is a multi-sector global electronics brand owned by Koch, Inc., one of the world's largest privately held companies. Discover your potential to make a difference.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.