Senior Director, Patient Marketing Excellence Lead

Argenx; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

argenx in Boston seeks a Senior Director of Patient Marketing Excellence to shape marketing capabilities, develop talent, and drive strategic innovation across the portfolio.

You will lead cross-functional teams, deploy scalable capability programs, and align patient engagement with portfolio priorities, data, and AI-driven insights.

This role builds leadership depth, partners with indications, and champions best practices to improve patient outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Set vision, priorities and capability agenda for the Patient Marketing & Engagement Strategy Community.
• Develop expertise in patient engagement, commercial strategy, and adherence with cross-functional collaboration.
• Identify capability gaps and advise on build, hire, or external experts.
• Partner with Head of Patient Marketing on resourcing and talent mapping.
• Scale marketing capabilities across portfolio and cross-portfolio priorities.
• Evolve capabilities with market, patient needs, portfolio changes.
• Strengthen standards, tools, and measurement across marketing disciplines.
• Develop emerging talent and deploy teams against high-priority needs.
• Balance capacity and continuity in resource deployment.
• Advance AI, data analytics, and new marketing practices.

Job description

Join us as we transform immunology and deliver medicines that help autoimmune patients get their lives back. argenx is preparing for multi-dimensional expansion to reach more patients through a rich pipeline of differentiated assets, led by VYVGART, our first-in-class neonatal Fc receptor blocker approved for the treatment of gMG, and with the potential to treat patients across dozens of severe autoimmune diseases.

We are building a new kind of biotech company, one that maintains its roots as a science-based start-up and pushes our commitment to innovate across all corners of our business. We strive to inspire and grow our company, our partnerships, our science, and our people, because when we do, we deliver more for patients.

As the Senior Director, Patient Marketing Excellence, you will lead the shaping of marketing capabilities, developing talent, implementing solutions to deliver strategic marketing innovation and optimization, and maximizing cross-functional connectivity needed to scale pipeline, patient commercial strategy, patient marketing and patient engagement across a growing portfolio. You will serve as the capability builder and accelerator - setting capability standards, developing emerging leaders, specialized expertise, and ensuring continued evolution consistent with patient, portfolio, and business needs. You will lead resource prioritization and deployment and help to build a versatile marketing talent bench with differentiated depth across marketing disciplines.

You will partner closely with cross-functional leaders across argenx pipeline, in-market indications, therapeutic areas and connect portfolio priorities with the capabilities and capacity needed to deliver them. This role is an opportunity to build not only what the organization needs today, but the talent, expertise, and marketing capabilities needed at scale.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Patient Marketing Excellence Vision and Leadership

• Set the vision, priorities, and capability agenda for the Patient Marketing & Engagement Strategy Community as portfolio and patient needs evolve.
• Build and accelerate expertise with focus on patient engagement, patient commercial strategy (including early pipeline), patient marketing, and patient adherence, ensuring knowledge depth, prioritization, and effective cross-functional collaboration.
• Proactively identify capability, talent, and capacity gaps and recommend where the organization should build, hire, or bring in external expertise.
• Partner with the Head of Patient Marketing & Engagement Strategy on resourcing, talent mapping, and organizational decisions.

Capability Strategy and Evolution

• Ensure Patient Marketing, Engagement Strategy, and emerging areas of expertise continue to evolve with the market, patient needs and preferences, portfolio, and business dynamics.
• Work with cross-functional capability leaders to strengthen standards, tools, measurement, and best practices within marketing disciplines and across the enterprise.
• Build new and/or deeper expertise where needed, including emerging patient populations, device and delivery needs, patient experience, and other cross-portfolio priorities.
• Scale approaches, ways of working, and learnings across the portfolio so teams can build on what works.

Marketing Leadership, Excellence and Deployment

• Shape and develop emerging talent within marketing as a flexible, high-performing team deployed against the portfolio's highest-priority marketing needs.
• Own resource prioritization and deployment, matching the right skills and level of experience to each assignment while balancing capacity and continuity.
• Build differentiated expertise across early pipeline, launch excellence, marketing, omnichannel media, customer engagement, performance optimization, agency management, and other priority marketing disciplines.
• Raise the standard of marketing excellence by building strategic discipline, marketing skills, and consistent quality across the team.
• Keep the Patient Marketing & Engagement Community current with advances in AI, automation, data and analytics, technology, and external marketing practices; translate relevant innovation into practical ways of working.
• Anticipate future demand and evolve the team's skills, staffing, and external support before portfolio needs arise.
• Measure impact and refine the deployment model based on business results, stakeholder feedback, capacity, and talent development.

Talent and Leadership development

• Build leadership depth and succession pathways through coaching, mentorship, and clear development plans.
• Create meaningful assignments and cross-portfolio experiences that build both versatile patient marketers and deep specialists.
• Identify future skill and capability needs and develop or recruit talent to close critical gaps.
• Create a culture of patient focus, accountability, collaboration, learning, and marketing excellence.

Cross-Portfolio Partnership and Impact

• Partner with indication and cross-functional l