Associate Director, Consumer Marketing

Westlake Village, CA (On-site)

$148K/yr – $222K/yrSenior Level12+ years expFull time

Posted 13 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own the end-to-end consumer marketing strategy, from messaging and cross-channel campaigns to measurement and agency leadership, while partnering with analytics, sales, medical, and regulatory teams to drive measurable brand impact.

  • Lead cross-functional and agency partnerships to deliver compliant, high-impact consumer initiatives
  • Utilize data and KPIs to optimize campaigns and inform strategic decisions

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Support the strategic development and lead tactical execution of the consumer promotional strategy, ensuring alignment with HCP brand initiatives.
  • Develop consumer messaging that is highly strategic and powerful across all channels—including promotional materials development.
  • Collaborate extensively with external agencies and a broad range of internal stakeholders to ensure consistency, compliance, and excellence in brand messaging and marketing execution.
  • Oversee measurement, analytics, and optimization of marketing performance. Utilize KPIs for continuous campaign improvement and innovation.
  • Manage agency relationships, their work product and associated budget.
  • Partner closely with the Omnichannel Marketing team to ensure pull-through of campaign and brand messages across digital channels.
  • Identify critical moments and barriers in the patient journey and design content and programs to overcome these barriers.
  • Partner with Analytics & Insights team to distill insights, validate business opportunities, and optimize consumer initiatives.
  • Provide leadership and guidance in the most complex situations.
  • Foster strong working partnerships with cross-functional team (i.e. sales, medical, legal, regulatory, promotional review committee, etc.) to deliver assets across the consumer ecosystem.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree
  • 12+ years of marketing or related function, including pharma marketing experience.
  • Experience in consumer marketing strategy and tactic planning with advanced proficiency in communicating ideas to internal partners and external agencies.
  • Consumer marketing experience in media, including digital marketing, with the ideal candidate having broadcast media planning experience.
  • Experience leading cross-functional and agency teams.
  • Strong strategic, analytical, and communication skills with the ability to manage and influence innovative consumer projects through a matrixed organization.
  • Demonstrated expertise managing multiple priorities, processes, timelines, and expectations of multiple stakeholder groups.
  • Proven track record of influencing, aligning, and inspiring cross-functional stakeholders at all levels, building trust and cultivating strong relationships to achieve shared goals.
  • Results-driven mindset with a high level of ownership, urgency, and resilience, consistently delivering on commitments while navigating obstacles and evolving business needs.
  • Demonstrated expertise in using data, insights, and structured analysis to inform decisions, challenge assumptions, and recommend evidence-based actions.

Preferred

  • MBA
  • 3 or more years of experience in Patient and/or Consumer Packaged Goods industry experience
  • Experience in the diabetes marketplace, with emphasis in insulin therapy is preferred.
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MannKind Corporation

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MannKind Corporation (Nasdaq: MNKD) is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to transforming chronic disease care through innovative, patient-centric solutions. Focused on cardiometabolic and orphan lung diseases, we develop and commercialize treatments that address serious unmet medical needs, including diabetes, pulmonary hypertension, and fluid overload in heart failure and chronic kidney disease.With deep expertise in drug-device combinations, MannKind aims to deliver therapies designed to fit seamlessly into daily life.Please visit mannkindcorp.com to learn more.

Founded in 1991
Danbury, Connecticut, USA
803 employees (22 in marketing)
79% recommend to a friend
85% CEO approval

Salaries

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$148K/yr – $222K/yr

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Funding

Total Funding
$475M
Last Raise
$75M
Post IPO Debt, 7 months ago

Funding History

  • Aug 2025
    Post IPO Debt • $75M
  • Mar 2021
    Post IPO Debt • $200M
  • Dec 2018
    Post IPO Equity • $40M

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Monthly Visitors
14.4K
Traffic Source Mix
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45%
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40.4%
Referral
7.5%
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5.6%
Paid
1.4%

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Current headcount: ~803

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Associate Director, Consumer Marketing

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