Associate Director, Oncology Field Communications and Execution

North Wales, PA (Hybrid)

$157K/yr – $247K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive cross-functional planning and execution of marketing communications and meeting programs for launches and field teams.

  • Own cross-functional planning and execution of marketing communications and meeting programs for launches and field teams.
  • Must-have: Minimum five years in marketing, marketing support, or field sales in life sciences.
  • Standout: Demonstrated ability to influence without authority and align customer-facing and marketing leaders.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Make recommendations to leaders in both the marketing and customer facing organizations on prioritization and trade-off decisions based on customer facing teams’ capacity
  • Proactively make recommendations for the content and delivery of marketing communications, field execution guidance, and communication of brand strategy to the customer facing organizations
  • Lead and coordinate marketing efforts for launch and national sales meetings
  • Partner with marketing, learning and development, and customer facing leaders to provide a clear line of sight into marketing meeting plans
  • Support and advise marketing partners on execution plans for new indications or new product approvals, drawing from best practices across the oncology business unit
  • Contribute and maintain execution oversight of internal marketing communication plans ensuring alignment with business unit priorities
  • Assist in the development and oversight of metrics to track the effectiveness of a variety of internal initiatives and programs in support of the customer facing organization
  • Lead cross functional (customer facing and marketing) meetings with both front line employees and leaders to support a two way feedback loop between customer facing teams and marketing teams
  • Identify and provide recommendations for continues process improvement specific to non-promotional based marketing operations, customer facing team execution, and HQ to customer facing team communication content and channels

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree (BA/BS) required
  • Minimum of five years of combined experience in marketing, marketing support, or field sales in the life sciences industry
  • Experience influencing without direct authority and working with cross-functional teams
  • Extremely strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate complex content in a simplified manner
  • Strong independent problem solving skills
  • Ability to adapt to and deliver results in a very fast paced and frequently changing environment
  • Proven track record to work successfully under tight and often fluctuating timelines
  • Proficiency with the Microsoft suite of applications: Teams (especially virtual presentation skills), PowerPoint, word, outlook
  • Biopharmaceutical Industry, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Field Communications, Marketing Communications (MarCom), Meeting Goals, Microsoft Office, Oral Communications, Pharmaceutical Industry, Product Prioritization, Project Management Basics (Inactive), Team Operations, Written Communication

Preferred

  • Front-line field sales management, ideally in the oncology pharma space
  • Strong preference for oncology field sales experience
  • Experience managing commercial projects in the pharmaceutical industry
  • Experience creating and managing strategic communication plans

Benefits

  • We offer a comprehensive package of benefits. Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
  • retirement benefits, including 401(k)
  • paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days
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