Associate Director, Marketing Promotions

South San Francisco, CA (On-site)

$166K/yr – $200K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own and drive the brand strategy across lifecycle with KPI driven execution and budget management, turning research and field insights into prioritized initiatives.

  • Ownership: Lead strategic plan, KPI tracking, and budget management for brand initiatives.
  • Insights: Synthesize market research, advisory boards, and competitive intelligence to adjust strategy and tactics.
  • Cross-functional: Align messaging, regulatory compliance, and field needs with Sales, Legal, Medical, Market Research, and other teams.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead key elements of the marketing strategic and operational plan to achieve commercial goals for the brand throughout the lifecycle and in various disease states
  • Utilize multiple sources of information (e.g., primary and secondary market research, advisory boards, competitive intelligence, field force, etc.) to uncover insights and recommend adjustments to the brand strategy and tactical plans
  • Collaborate with cross functional partners to ensure promotional strategy, messaging, and brand standards are incorporated in initiatives to ensure consistent brand experience
  • Gain approval for marketing strategies and tactics through the internal review processes, ensuring that all activities follow regulatory, compliance and legal requirements and efficiently approved for promotional use
  • Establish Key Performance Indicators, regularly tracking and measuring the success of initiatives and tactics; adjust strategy and tactics to achieve KPIs, as needed
  • Understand insights, challenges and marketing strategy to address field needs for plan of action meetings and ongoing support
  • Partner cross-functionally with Sales, Training, Legal, Regulatory, Medical, Market Research, Market Access and other key internal stakeholders to ensure collaborative efforts and continuous feedback loop
  • Effectively manage third party agencies to ensure their understanding of brand strategy and deliver initiatives outlined within the operation plan and budget that support core strategies
  • Manage associated marketing budget and project timelines
  • Attendance in the South San Francisco headquarters weekly for essential meetings and workshops with cross functional collaborators, promotional review committee, the management team and other headquarter based employees.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of biopharmaceutical industry marketing and sales experience with hematology, Hem/Onc or Orphan/Rare disease experience preferred. Marketing experience in Patient, Breast Cancer or Digital preferred.
  • Strategic thinker with ability to formulate, develop, execute and optimize strategy
  • Excellent project management skills including analytical assessment, timeline and budget management, planning, prioritization, objective setting, meeting management, plan execution, and performance management
  • Aptitude for creative thinking, problem solving, effectively managing multiple projects and ability to work independently
  • Ability to adapt and thrive within a fast-paced and dynamic environment
  • Excellent communications skills with an ability to efficiently and productively communicate both orally and written
  • Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to lead, interact with, focus, resolve conflict and drive consensus among individuals from a variety of cultures, and disciplines with and without authority
  • Ability to work well as part of a team and expertise as a leader with well-developed influencing and negotiating skills
  • Strong presence with ability to command respect through exercise of sound business judgment and clear decision-making
  • Bachelor's degree in marketing or related fields (required); MBA (preferred)

Preferred

  • MBA (preferred)
  • Marketing experience in Patient, Breast Cancer or Digital preferred.
  • Hematology, Hem/Onc or Orphan/Rare disease experience preferred.
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Rigel Pharmaceuticals Inc.

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Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc., is a biotechnology company dedicated to discovering, developing and providing novel small molecule drugs that significantly improve the lives of patients with hematologic disorders and cancer.

Founded in 1996
South San Francisco, California, USA
283 employees (18 in marketing)
53% recommend to a friend
58% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
12.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
43.4%
Direct
40.1%
Referral
8.8%
Social
6.2%
Paid
1.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~284

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
18 (6% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$192.5M
Last Raise
$16.5M
Grant, 5 years ago

Funding History

  • Jan 2021
    Grant • $16.5M
  • May 2011
    Post IPO Equity • $130M
  • Jan 2010
    Post IPO Equity

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