Director, Regional Marketing - West

Gilead Sciences; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 205,000 - 267,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading biopharmaceutical company seeks a Director of Regional Marketing to engage healthcare professionals and influence the adoption of their innovative cancer therapies. This role involves developing strategic partnerships, utilizing market insights, and executing marketing strategies within the hematology field, requiring extensive travel and strong interpersonal skills.

Benefits

Discretionary annual bonus

Paid time off

Comprehensive benefits package

Qualifications

• 12+ years of pharmaceutical/biotech experience, including sales in hematology/oncology.
• Experience in people leadership within the industry.
• Deep understanding of the clinical landscape.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain partnerships with opinion leaders in hematology.
• Value commercial insights and support strategic marketing initiatives.
• Plan and execute interactions at conferences and field visits.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Relationship building

Market insights

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

PhD

Job description

We’re here for one reason and one reason only – to cure cancer. Every moment is dedicated to developing treatments and every action moves us one step closer to our goal. We’ve made incredible scientific breakthroughs and our pioneering personalized CAR T-cell therapies have changed the paradigm. But we're not finished yet.

Join Kite, as we make even bigger advances in cancer therapies, and help shape where our business and medical science goes next.

We believe every employee deserves a great leader. People Leaders are the cornerstone to the employee experience at Gilead and Kite. As a people leader now or in the future, you are the key driver in evolving our culture and creating an environment where every employee feels included, developed and empowered to fulfil their aspirations. Join Kite and help create more tomorrows.

Job Description

The Director, Regional Marketingis expected to possess a high level of clinical and customer knowledge, and is responsible for engaging and influencing health care professionals to help build educational platforms, generate insights and inform the execution of current and future brand and disease-state strategies. The Regional Marketing role, is a field-based marketing role that works closely with Healthcare Professionals (HCPs) and Opinion Leaders (OLs) and requires extensive travel (>

60%) within region. This role reports to the Senior Director of US OL and Congress Strategy.

In partnership with commercial leadership, commercial colleagues, and cross-functional partners, this role is responsible for execution of Kite’s overarching commercial US interaction strategy with opinion leaders in the heme, hem / onc, and CAR T treatment areas to advance adoptions for the use of Kite therapies in hematologic malignancy.

The Regional Marketing job responsibilities are focused on the following key areas. All interactions are on-label and consistent with commercial compliance, legal and regulatory guidelines.

This role will support the West region and will be field-based.

Responsibilities :

OL Development and Engagement

Identify, profile, cultivate and maintain long-term partnerships with National OLs / Regional OLs / Emerging leaders within the Hematology community

Developing regional OL strategies and effectively communicating those plans with cross-functional partners to ensure enterprise-wide transparency, collaboration, and alignment with a ONE Kite approach

Interact with OLs to solicit insights and develop advocacy aligned to commercial and marketing strategy and messaging, measured through sentiment analysis

Engage in on-label conversations on topics such as disease diagnosis & treatment, referral dynamics, product positioning, and opportunities for Kite to win

Plan and execute OL interactions and executive encounters at local, regional and national conferences, field visits, and other venues as directed

Serve as a single point-of-contact to resolve commercial OL issues

Work closely and collaboratively with cross-functional partners (e.g. sales, marketing), to maintain OL coordination, but also to manage role clarity among the expertise areas for an enhanced OL and Kite experience

Market Insights & Collaboration

Utilize insights from opinion leaders (OLs) and competitive intelligence to shape and enhance brand strategies and tactical activities

Identify market gaps, anticipate competitor actions, and drive informed strategic planning to ensure market positioning and sustained growth

Facilitate cross-functional planning, recruitment, and execution of regional and national advisory boards

Identify, align and recruit appropriate HCP / OL consultants to meet the needs of marketing and achieve aligned-upon KPIs for each project

Basic Qualifications :

Bachelor's Degree and Twelve Years’ Experience

Masters' Degree and Ten Years’ Experience

PhD and Eight Years’ Experience

Preferred Qualifications :

12+ years of pharmaceutical / biotech industry experience, including prior sales experience in hematology / oncology

2+ years of pharmaceutical / biotech industry people leadership experience

Thorough understanding of the hematology / oncology clinical landscape, ideally with prior experience in cell therapy or stem cell transplant

Excellent interpersonal skills and a demonstrated ability to cultivate relationships with oncology and cell therapy opinion leaders

Willingness and aptitude to stay on the cutting edge of data readouts and communicate implications to Kite

Strong ability to work cross-functionally in a dynamic, fast paced environment

Prior leadership experience preferred

People Leader Accountabilities :

Create Inclusion - knowing the business value of diverse teams, modeling inclusion, and embedding the value of diversity in the way they manage their teams.

Develop Talent - understand the skills, experience, aspirations, and potential of their employees and coach them on current performance and future potential. They ensure employees are receiving the feedback and insight needed to grow, develop, and realize their purpose.

Empower Teams - connect the team to the organization by aligning goals, purpose, and organizational objectives and holding them to account. They provide the support needed to remove barriers and connect their team to the broader ecosystem.

The salary range for this position is : $205,615.00 - $266,090.00. Kite considers a variety of factors when determining base compensation, including experience, qualifications, and geographic location. These considerations mean actual compensation will vary. This position may also be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus, discretionary stock-based long-term incentives (eligibility may vary based on role), paid time off, and a benefits package. Benefits include company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans

For additional benefits information, visit :

• Eligible employees may participate in benefit plans, subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans.

Kite is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the development of innovative cancer immunotherapies with a goal of providing rapid, long-term durable response and eliminating the burden of chronic care. The company is focused on chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) and T cell receptor (TCR) engineered cell therapies designed to empower the immune system's ability to recognize and kill tumors. Kite is based in Santa Monica, CA. For more information on Kite, please visit www.kitepharma.com . Sign up to follow @KitePharma on Twitter at www.twitter.com / kitepharma .

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Everyone at Kite is grounded by one common goal – curing cancer. Every day, we aim to establish a direct line between that purpose and our day-to-day work.

We are creating Kite together, with the recognition that the best teams are built by the best people. We maintain an attitude of curiosity, and creativity with each challenge as we develop a new market for cancer therapies. We appreciate and respect one another, and most importantly, we don’t take success for granted.

While we’ve come a long way to make what others viewed as impossible, possible, we know one thing is certain. Today is just the beginning.

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