Director Global Oncology Marketing - Breast cancers
Merck
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Job summary
Merck is seeking a Global Marketing Leader for Women’s Cancers, centered on breast cancer, to shape global indications and maximize opportunities across treatment settings. You will lead market assessment, disease strategy, and launch execution while partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver value to customers.
The role requires 8+ years in pharmaceutical commercial roles, oncology product launches, and strong strategic execution.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of Pharmaceutical Commercial experience, including Oncology and product launch experience.
- Strong written, verbal and presentation skills.
- Strong business acumen, problem solving skills, managing large complex initiatives, strong business judgment and ability to drive initiatives forward.
Responsibilities
- Develop commercial strategies aligned with our strategic marketing approach (“L3”) with cross-functional partners to deliver value to our customers.
- Support disease area assessment including burden of disease, patient journeys, unmet need, evolving landscape and pipeline.
- Provide input to long term pipeline development and commercial input on activities in the Product Development Team (PDT) incl. target product profile development and revenue forecasting.
- Provide commercial leadership, develop aligned perspectives and input in governance teams: launch readiness reviews, market research, revenue forecasting, budget, events/congresses, partner management.
- Responsible for launch and commercialization strategies and deliver global strategy and execution plans and tactics.
- Generate market and customer insights through quantitative and qualitative methods to engage on opportunities.
- Partner with Medical Affairs and CI to understand trials vs competition to drive differentiation.
- Ensure materials align with compliance standards and approvals and refresh as needed.
- Engage with regions and markets; provide leadership and input to strategy and omnichannel marketing.
- Lead strategic plans and accountable execution, tracked through QBR and budgets; drive cross-regional learning.
Skills
Education
Job description
The Global Marketing Women's Cancers Director, with a main focus on breast cancers, will play a vital role in building and maximizing the Global opportunity for the Women's Cancers franchise and will be responsible for shaping Women's Cancers indications across treatment settings.
This position will require outstanding leadership in market assessment, disease strategy, product clinical development, launch strategy, market development, thought leader engagement, competitive dynamics, issues management, forecasting, opportunity valuations, and overall flawless launch execution.
Develop commercial strategies aligned with our strategic marketing approach (“L3”) with cross-functional partners to successfully navigate the evolving internal and external environments and deliver value to our customers.
Support our overall disease area assessment, including burden of disease, patient journeys, unmet need, evolving competitive landscape and pipeline.
Provide input to long term pipeline development and commercial input on activities in the Product Development Team (PDT) incl., target product profile development (TPP), commercial implications of development plans and their evolution, drive inputs to revenue forecasting, NPV, business case, develop scenario planning and analysis.
Provide commercial leadership, develop aligned perspectives and input in various settings, incl. other cross-functional working and governance teams: launch readiness reviews, identification of data gaps and approaches, market research, revenue forecasting, budget, organized customer interactions, events/congresses, agency partner management.
Responsible for launch and commercialization strategies and deliver global strategy and execution plans and tactics, including:
Generate market and customer insights (incl. drivers, barriers, competitive dynamics, and ecosystems) through a combination of quantitative and qualitative ways to engage on portfolio and indication opportunities.
Partner with Medical Affairs and CI to establish a deep understanding of our clinical trials vs competition to drive product differentiation
Ensures that all materials and initiatives are aligned to our Company compliance standards, receive necessary approvals and are appropriately refreshed.
Engage effectively with regions and markets
Provide leadership, support, and expertise as well as gain input and feedback from region and country colleagues on strategy, marketing materials approaches and omnichannel marketing.
Lead and contribute to development of strategic and tactical plans annually and be accountable for execution of their responsibilities as tracked through QBR and budgets management
Lead initiatives to drive operational efficiency and effective deployment of global strategies across the team
Demonstrate "One Team" approach of integrating best practices and facilitating cross-regional learning.
Demonstrate our Company's way of working leadership behaviors including building networks, sharing, focusing on the customer, and driving results. Maintain alignment to compliance goals and policies.
Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) required
Masters, MBA or other advanced degree (Preferred)
8+ years of Pharmaceutical Commercial experience, including Oncology and product launch experience
Strong written, verbal and presentation skills
Strong business acumen, problem solving skills, managing large complex initiatives, strong business judgment and ability to drive initiatives forward
Ability to work through ambiguity, experience leading strategy development and implementation. Ability to clearly articulate insights and strategies messages/information across the enterprise and to leadership
Ability to engage with complex scientific information and clinical data, with subject matter experts and distill insights into commercial implications
Agility to learn quickly and adapt to changing environment
Must be able to influence without authority as well as work collaboratively in cross-functional teams
In market commercial / launch experience
Experience working with stakeholders in fast paced environments
Scientific background/ experience
Experience providing commercial input on such activities as: target product profile development, market research, forecasting, customer interactions, disease/portfolio strategy
Breast Cancer, Collaboration, Launch Readiness, Market Analysis, Market Assessments, Market Development, Market Intelligence, Market Research, Oncology Marketing, Portfolio Strategies, Product Launch Support, Results-Oriented, Revenue Projections, Strategic Planning, Strategic Thinking
Our company is committed to inclusion, ensuring that candidates can engage in a hiring process that exhibits their true capabilities.
As an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, we provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. As a federal contractor, we comply with all affirmative action requirements for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. For more information about personal rights under the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment laws, visit:
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The salary range for this role is
$190,800.00 - $300,300.00
This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this 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 .
We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance
Regular
No relocation
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10%
Hybrid
1st - Day
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10/14/2026
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