Associate Director, BioPharma Strategic Marketing at Foundation Medicine | Boston, MA | $154K/yr – $193K/yr

Foundation Medicine

Associate Director, BioPharma Strategic Marketing

Boston, MA (On-site)

$154K/yr – $193K/yrManager10+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive strategic marketing initiatives for BioPharma by unifying cross-functional teams to translate therapy context into market execution and portfolio growth.

Own cross-functional strategic projects with milestones, ownership, and measurable outcomes.
Must-have: 10+ years in healthcare/strategic marketing, preferably biopharma oncology or diagnostics.
Standout: ability to standardize planning tools and templates for scalable execution across portfolios.

Job Description

Responsibilities

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
Support annual business planning, grounding strategy in oncology treatment paradigms, market opportunity analysis, and customer segmentation
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

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field (i.e. Marketing, Business, or Life Sciences)
10+ years of experience in healthcare and/or strategic marketing, preferably in biopharma, oncology, or diagnostics

Preferred

Advanced Degree in a relevant field (i.e. Marketing, Business, or Life Sciences)
Prior experience in oncology
Strong therapeutic area knowledge combined with a strong grasp of incorporating insights across market research, competitive intelligence, and secondary data analytics.
Strong understanding of market research techniques and gathering competitive intelligence with secondary research.
Self-starter; strong sense of responsibility with demonstrable comfort in an entrepreneurial environment
Able to work effectively in a fluid, cross-functional, matrixed environment and stand out as a successful collaborator
Consultative mindset and experience
Intellectual curiosity, with the ability to ask thought-provoking questions and proactively “connect the dots”

Benefits

This position also qualifies for Foundation Medicine's benefits.

Foundation Medicine

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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)

www.foundationmedicine.com

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