Marketing Lead, Vaccines & Pharma

MSD Malaysia; Singapore; On-site; SGD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Merck & Co. seeks a strategic Marketing Lead to shape the Vaccines and Pharma portfolio across Singapore and Brunei.

You will translate insights into explicit portfolio choices, lead product managers, and coordinate cross-functional partners to deliver launches and ongoing growth. You will drive integrated execution with a disciplined performance cadence, balancing near-term performance with pipeline priorities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, life sciences, pharmacy, medicine or a related discipline.
• Substantial marketing and commercial experience in pharmaceuticals, vaccines, healthcare or another relevant regulated sector.
• Demonstrated leadership of complex portfolios, launches or cross-functional programmes.
• People-management experience, including coaching, development and performance leadership.
• Strong written and verbal English communication and demonstrated commitment to ethics and integrity.

Responsibilities

• Lead integrated portfolio strategy across Vaccines and Pharma, balancing near-term performance with launch and pipeline priorities.
• Lead end-to-end commercial readiness across multiple launches and indications.
• Build a deep understanding of Singapore and Brunei healthcare environments, channels, customer needs and patient pathways.
• Set direction for brand plans and customer engagement within applicable policies and local requirements.
• Lead, coach and develop Product Managers through clear objectives, regular feedback and differentiated development.
• Mobilise cross-functional teams around common outcomes and resolve competing priorities through fact-based dialogue.

Skills

Advertising Campaign Development

Agile Methodology

Collaborative Leadership

Commercial Operations Management

Creative Campaign Development

Customer Engagement

Digital Analytics

Leadership Management

Marketing Budget Management

Marketing Channels

Marketing Strategy Implementation

Market Intelligence

Organizational Leadership

People Leadership

Portfolio Strategies

Pricing Strategies

Principles of Marketing

Product Launch Planning

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)

Product Rollouts

Sales Performance

Stakeholder Negotiations

Strategic Thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, life sciences, pharmacy, medicine or related discipline

Job description

Job Description Lead the brands that protect lives and shape the future of healthcare. Transform insight into strategy, launches into impact, and potential into growth. Inspire teams, influence decisions, and drive meaningful change for patients. Role overview: We is seeking a strategic, customer-focused and people-oriented Marketing Lead to shape the next phase of growth for the Vaccines and Pharma portfolio across Singapore and Brunei. The role provides functional leadership across established brands, recent launches and future growth assets, translating patient, customer, market and competitive insights into clear portfolio choices and measurable execution. The Marketing Lead will lead and develop Product Managers, establish clear priorities and decision rights, and mobilise cross-functional partners across Sales, Medical Affairs, Market Access, Policy and Communications, Regulatory Affairs, Finance, Supply Chain, Commercial Operations, Data and Analytics, and Legal and Compliance.

Portfolio and commercial strategy

Lead integrated portfolio strategy across Vaccines and Pharma, balancing near-term performance with launch and pipeline priorities. Translate market dynamics, patient journeys, customer needs, competition and access developments into explicit choices. Recommend priorities, investments and resource trade-offs based on patient opportunity, business impact and organisational capacity. Partner with the BUD in business planning, forecasting and portfolio reviews.

Launch excellence and lifecycle leadership

Lead end-to-end commercial readiness across multiple launches and indications. Establish launch plans with milestones, decision points, readiness measures, owners and risk mitigation. Align Medical, Access, Policy, Regulatory, Supply, Finance, Sales and Commercial Operations early. Identify readiness gaps, resolve dependencies and escalate material risks with recommendations.

Customer, patient and market insight

Build a deep understanding of Singapore and Brunei healthcare environments, channels, customer needs and patient pathways. Ensure insight is systematically captured, tested and converted into decisions. Identify unmet needs, barriers and growth opportunities with Data and Analytics, Sales, Medical, Access and Policy.

Integrated execution and performance

Set direction for brand plans and customer engagement within applicable policies and local requirements. Create a disciplined performance cadence across brands and launches. Define leading and lagging indicators, diagnose gaps and adapt plans. Strengthen the connection between strategy and field execution.

People leadership and capability building

Lead, coach and develop Product Managers through clear objectives, regular feedback and differentiated development. Build a culture of ownership, curiosity, inclusion, constructive challenge and execution discipline. Develop succession plans, address performance gaps fairly and create cross-portfolio development experiences.

Enterprise leadership and stewardship

Mobilise cross-functional teams around common outcomes and resolve competing priorities through fact-based dialogue. Communicate complex issues simply and credibly to senior local, regional and global stakeholders. Lead marketing-budget planning and resource allocation with financial discipline. Embed ethics, integrity and compliance from programme design onward.

What should you bring

Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, life sciences, pharmacy, medicine or a related discipline. Substantial marketing and commercial experience in pharmaceuticals, vaccines, healthcare or another relevant regulated sector. Demonstrated leadership of complex portfolios, launches or cross-functional programmes. People-management experience, including coaching, development and performance leadership. Strong customer, brand, forecasting, resource-allocation and performance-management capability. Strong written and verbal English communication and demonstrated commitment to ethics and integrity.

Who We Are

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have brought forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world\'s most challenging diseases.

What We Look For

We are looking for a leader who combines strategic thinking, operational discipline, and clear, compelling communication. If you bring intellectual rigor, comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to convert ideas into measurable outcomes across a complex matrix, we invite you to help shape how Asia Pacific turns strategy into sustained performance and patient impact.

Required Skills: Advertising Campaign Development, Agile Methodology, Collaborative Leadership, Commercial Operations Management, Creative Campaign Development, Customer Engagement, Digital Analytics, Leadership Management, Marketing Budget Management, Marketing Channels, Marketing Strategy Implementation, Market Intelligence, Organizational Leadership, People Leadership, Portfolio Strategies, Pricing Strategies, Principles of Marketing, Product Launch Planning, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Product Rollouts, Sales Performance, Stakeholder Negotiations, Strategic Thinking

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Our company is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and animal health products. The difference between potential and achievement lies in the spark that fuels innovation and inventiveness; this is the space where we have codified our legacy for over a century. Our success is backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.