Global Marketing Director, Lifecycle & Growth — PH & RD

Merck & Co.; North Wales (Montgomery County); Hybrid; USD 191,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Long-term incentive

Comprehensive benefits (medical,Dental

Vision, 401(k), holidays

Job summary

Merck & Co. is seeking a Director of Life Cycle Management and Future Strategy for Pulmonary Hypertension & Rare Disease.

You will lead early commercialization development, partnering with Clinical, Medical Affairs, Market Access, Digital Human Health, and local teams to shape strategy and ensure successful lifecycle expansion for activin signaling inhibitors. The role requires strategic leadership, collaboration across US and global markets, and strong stakeholder engagement.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience across marketing, sales, market access, or related areas in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industries.
• Entrepreneurship: understand key market dynamics and seize business opportunities; proven track record of high-performance launches.
• Strategic planning: analyze data and craft long-term, customer-centric strategies.
• Change catalyst: lead changes to achieve priorities and drive initiatives.
• Innovation: leverage new ideas to deliver measurable value to customers.
• Influence: communicate across the enterprise up to senior leadership.
• Networking and partnerships: collaborate across divisions including R&D, Medical Affairs, Outcomes Research, and Access.
• Executional excellence: set priorities and ensure frictionless execution of value-added outcomes.
• Prior launch experience preferred.
• Experience working with Medical Affairs, Clinical, Outcomes Research is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop global commercialization strategies for potential future indications, including CpcPH-HFpEF, aligning with global and local teams.
• Represent commercial priorities on clinical sub-teams to inform evidence generation, value propositions, and future marketing claims.
• Define overarching commercial ambition and long-term lifecycle expansion opportunities with Clinical, Medical Affairs, and Market Access.
• Drive development of commercially informed target product profiles and evidence needs for global pricing and access.
• Build deep disease-area, customer, and market knowledge to identify unmet needs and market-shaping opportunities.
• Conduct commercial assessments of business development and lifecycle opportunities for the PH & Rare Disease franchise.
• Manage budgets, agency partners, and workstreams to deliver projects on time and within budget.

Skills

Marketing leadership

Pharma industry

Strategy development

Cross-functional collaboration

Launch experience

Education

Bachelor's Degree

MBA (preferred)

Job description

Merck & Co. is seeking a Director of Life Cycle Management and Future Strategy for Pulmonary Hypertension & Rare Disease.

You will lead early commercialization development, partnering with Clinical, Medical Affairs, Market Access, Digital Human Health, and local teams to shape strategy and ensure successful lifecycle expansion for activin signaling inhibitors. The role requires strategic leadership, collaboration across US and global markets, and strong stakeholder engagement.