Associate Director Global Oncology Marketing Launch Excellence

Merck & Co.; Rahway (NJ); Hybrid; USD 157,000 - 247,000; Full time

Job summary

Merck & Co. in Rahway, NJ, is seeking an Associate Director, Global Oncology Marketing, to lead launch planning for multiple priority Oncology launches. The role emphasizes coordinating milestones, resources, and cross-functional teams to ensure flawless execution.

The position requires at least 5 years in pharma, strong business acumen, and a collaborative leadership style. Hybrid work arrangements apply, with location options in Rahway, NJ or Upper Gwynedd, PA.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years pharmaceutical experience.
• Strong commercial and business acumen.
• Proactive leadership with urgency and results.
• Inclusive leadership with collaboration across teams.
• Ability to lead multiple strategic initiatives and drive execution.

Responsibilities

• Lead two to three priority product launches as the launch planner, ensuring launch readiness and milestones are achieved.
• Drive strategic launch planning via the Launch Planning Tool and ensure tools/processes evolve.
• Use dashboards to identify launch readiness risks and mitigate them.
• Support knowledge management and best practice sharing across the organization.
• Partner with Global Oncology brand teams to ensure execution excellence on must-win launches.
• Support Executive Director on operational initiatives.

Skills

Launch planning

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic thinking

Data-driven decision making

Results-oriented

Influencing without authority

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA

Job description

The Global Oncology pipeline offers great promise over a broad range of diseases with high unmet medical need with more than ten products potentially launching in the next five years. Global Oncology will be a critical driver of company growth and most importantly, significant patient impact - this is an opportunity to join an organization with a team of colleagues with high energy, passion and patient-driven purpose.

Role Description and Key Responsibilities

Reporting to the Executive Director, Integrated Business Operations & Launch Excellence, the Associate Director, Global Oncology Marketing is responsible for leading the launch planning activities for two to three priority Global Oncology launches. With several priority launches occurring in the next five years within Global Oncology and many more across the organization, this role will be essential in ensuring that we have consistency, coordination and efficiencies in our launch planning activities.

This role will support flawless product launch planning by leading the execution of the Launch Excellence Framework.

The Associate Director, Global Marketing Oncology will lead and support flawless product launch planning, milestones assessment and risk mitigation, and evolution of process and launch tools across Global Oncology. Key responsibilities include:

• Lead two to three priority product launches as the launch planner, responsible for launch readiness by ensuring key launch milestones are identified, resourced and successfully achieved
• Drive strategic launch planning via the Launch Planning Tool and ensure consistency and evolution of all tools and processes to streamline and improve launch planning
• Utilize dashboards and metrics to identify and elevate launch readiness risks, and partner to problem solve and mitigate risks as appropriate
• Support knowledge management and best practice sharing across the organization
• Work in close partnership with the Global Oncology brand teams and cross-functional colleagues to ensure execution excellence with our must-win launches
• Support the Executive Director, Integrated Business Operations & Launch Excellence as needed on operational initiatives

Launch standards and best practices

• Provide input into the development of global standards for launch planning, processes, and tools to drive excellence
• Ensure global standards for launch planning, processes, and tools to drive excellence are implemented across global oncology
• Collaborate with centralized functions (e.g., Global Marketing Launch Excellence team) and other HH Marketing Launch Planners) to support the evolution of processes or tools and to optimize cross‑enterprise planning
• Utilize consistent metrics to evaluate launch success and dashboards to easily depict progress and report on these

Education

• Required: Bachelor's degree
• Preferred: MBA

Required Experience and Skills

• Minimum of 5 years pharmaceutical experience
• Strong commercial and business acumen
• Proactive leadership style with the ability to advance work with urgency and results
• Inclusive leadership style with strong collaboration skills and ability to build trust and credibility cross‑functional teams
• Ability to lead and influence without authority
• Demonstrated excellence in project management and/or launch planning
• Demonstrated ability to lead multiple strategic initiatives simultaneously and drive execution and results
• Demonstrated ability to solve problems and identify solutions
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Experience and Skills

• Previous commercial experience with a focus in marketing
• Previous launch planning experience
• Understanding of pharmaceutical commercialization landscape and trends

Position location

Rahway NJ or Upper Gwynedd, PA (hybrid work model)

Required Skills:

Commercialization Strategies, Data-Driven Decision Making, Global Marketing Strategy, Influencing Without Authority, Innovation, Market Access, Market Research, Oncology Marketing, Product Launches, Project Management, Results-Oriented, Strategic Thinking, Strategy Deployment

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The primary location for this posting is:

USA - New Jersey - Rahway

Where required by law, the compensation range for this role is provided below.

The salary range for the primary location of this role is:
$156,900.00 - $247,000.00

This range reflects the Company's reasonable expectation of the base salary applicable to this role at the time of posting. An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs. The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits. Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days. More information about benefits is available at https://jobs.merck.com/us/en/compensation-and-benefits .

Additional location(s):

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