Associate Director, BioPharma Strategic Marketing

Boston, MA (Hybrid)

$154K/yr – $193K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Portfolio marketing ownership to translate clinical and market data into executable strategic plans with cross-functional buy-in.

  • Strategic Project Planning & Execution: translate strategy into milestones with clear ownership and measurable outcomes.
  • Cross-functional alignment: bring together scientific, product, and commercial stakeholders to manage interdependencies and drive go-to-market readiness.
  • Insights to action: convert complex clinical and market data into concise, decision-ready recommendations to prioritize investments and accelerate portfolio growth.

Job Description

Portfolio marketing leadership for BioPharma; translate clinical and market data into strategy and execution with clear milestones, ownership, and outcomes.

  • Strategic Project Planning & Execution: Lead and contribute to high-impact strategic marketing projects that translate strategy into executable plans with clear milestones, ownership, and outcomes
  • Drive execution across complex, cross-functional initiatives by aligning scientific, product, and commercial stakeholders and managing interdependencies
  • Apply structured project management and change management practices to bridge strategy and execution, ensuring focus on decisions that materially impact portfolio performance
  • Develop and standardize templates, frameworks, and playbooks across marketing projects (e.g., strategic plans, launch planning) to improve efficiency, consistency, and scalability
  • Maintain a strong “strategic throughline” from therapeutic context to market execution, ensuring efforts remain grounded in customer and business value
  • Identify opportunities to strengthen marketing processes and operating models to improve speed, repeatability, and impact
  • Partner with cross-functional leaders to align portfolio marketing strategies, and supporting tactical plans, with BioPharma growth goals and priorities.
  • Drive operational readiness for strategic initiatives by defining timelines, resourcing needs, success metrics, and cross-team dependencies
  • Establish repeatable planning tools and templates that enable consistent execution across portfolios, teams, and project lifecycle stages
  • Serve as a strategic connector – ensuring consistency between scientific intent, market messaging, and field execution
  • Lead ongoing assessment of BioPharma portfolio performance, integrating therapeutic context, market dynamics, customer behavior, and competitive intelligence to assess progress against growth objectives
  • Translate complex clinical, scientific, and market data into concise insights and recommendations that inform portfolio marketing strategy, prioritization, and investment decisions
  • Partner cross‑functionally to ensure insights drive action – shaping launch readiness and go-to-market execution.
  • Contribute to high‑visibility executive forums and materials, including Quarterly Business Reviews, BioPharma Leadership Team discussions, and cross‑functional operating reviews, with clear narratives that connect marketing strategy to business performance
  • Translate financial insights into clear recommendations that optimize return on investment while supporting portfolio growth objectives
  • This position also qualifies for Foundation Medicine's benefits.
  • The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of Boston, MA is $154, 160 – $192,700 per year. The salary range is commensurate with Foundation Medicines compensation practice and considers factors including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, external market conditions, criticality of role, and internal equity. A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and Company performance. This position also qualifies for Foundation Medicine's benefits.
  • Foundation Medicine, Inc. (FMI) is a global, patient-focused precision medicine company delivering high-quality, transformative diagnostic solutions in cancer and other diseases.
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Foundation Medicine

3.5 Glassdoor

At Foundation Medicine, our mission is to transform lives in cancer and beyond. We strive to provide multi-modal precision diagnostic solutions to transform cancer care throughout a patient’s experience, from pre-diagnosis to ongoing management and monitoring. We collaborate with biopharmaceutical organizations to accelerate the development of new therapies and are using our vast knowledge of precision medicine, along with our high-quality tests and services, to understand and help develop personalized therapies for a range of diseases beyond cancer. For more information, visit us at www.FoundationMedicine.com.Community Guidelines: bit.ly/FMICommunityGuidelines

Founded in 2010
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
1.8K employees (59 in marketing)
55% recommend to a friend
52% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
66.2K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$4.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
25.4%
Direct
54.7%
Referral
15.2%
Social
3.6%
Paid
0.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1.8K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
44 (3% of company)
Median Career Experience
15 years
Median Tenure
5.2 years

Funding

Total Funding
$96.5M
Last Raise
$13.5M
Series B, 13 years ago

Funding History

  • Jan 2013
    Series B • $13.5M
  • Sep 2012
    Series B • $42.5M
  • Oct 2011
    Series A • $33.5M

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