Associate Director, Marketing

Cambridge, MA (Unknown)

$177K/yr – $219K/yrManager7+ years exp

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive brand marketing for a kidney-disease portfolio, owning personal promotion and peer-to-peer tactics and cross-functional collaboration to maximize brand impact.

  • Own personal promotion and peer-to-peer strategy and execution for HCPs and patients
  • Must-have: 7+ years in brand marketing with at least 3 years in HCP or patient product management
  • Standout: Leads advisory boards and cross-functional campaigns with agency management and budget ownership

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead personal promotion and peer-to-peer strategy and execution for Vafseo including creation of all assets and content for HCPs and patients
  • Ensure alignment across brand messaging, promotional materials and customer engagement initiatives
  • Lead advisory boards to strengthen scientific and brand credibility
  • Partner with speaker program operations to optimize engagement and pull through of promotional speaker programs
  • Partner with medical and meetings management to develop conference strategy and lead congress promotion efforts to maximize brand presence
  • Partner closely with field sales, market access and sales training to ensure effective implementation of brand messaging and key marketing initiatives
  • Effectively manage agencies to achieve high quality deliverables within time and budget scopes
  • Collaborate effectively with Promotional Review Committee (PRC) partners to ensure execution aligns with brand strategy and marketing timelines
  • Support additional marketing initiatives and special projects as needed, including brand planning, budget tracking, and other ad hoc assignments to advance business objectives
  • Measure and optimize personal promotion and peer-to-peer tactic effectiveness

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree required, MBA is a plus
  • 7+ years of proven experience in brand marketing with a minimum of 3 years of HCP or patient product management experience

Preferred

  • Experience in nephrology is a plus
  • Proven project and vendor management skills
  • Proven ability to influence without authority and partner with cross-functional teams
  • Strong written and presentation skills
  • Up to 15% travel to attend sales meetings, customer visits, and relevant medical meetings/congresses within the U.S.

Benefits

  • Additional benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, etc.
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Akebia Therapeutics

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Akebia Therapeutics, Inc. is a growing biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, focused on the development and commercialization of therapeutics for people living with kidney disease. Please review our social media guidelines at: https://akebia.com/social-media-guidelines/

Founded in 2007
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
273 employees (10 in marketing)
62% recommend to a friend
90% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
9.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
42.4%
Direct
43.2%
Referral
5.8%
Social
7.3%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~273

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
9 (3% of company)

Funding

Total Funding
$442.5M
Last Raise
$37M
Post IPO Debt, 2 years ago

Funding History

  • Jan 2024
    Post IPO Debt • $37M
  • May 2020
    Post IPO Equity • $151.8M
  • Nov 2019
    Post IPO Debt • $100M

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