Director, Marketing

Cambridge, MA (Hybrid)

$214K/yr – $289K/yrDirector/ExecutiveOther

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive Vafseo brand strategy and cross-functional leadership to deliver compliant promotions and measurable marketing impact in pharma.

  • Own brand strategy and campaign execution across integrated programs
  • Must-have: 10+ years in pharma branding and MBA preferred
  • Standout: AI-enabled initiatives and cross-functional leadership

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead development of overall Vafseo brand strategy and message
  • Manage day-to-day brand operations, ensuring timely execution of campaigns and materials across integrated promotional programs (personal promotion, non-personal promotion, peer-to-peer programs and Key Medical Expert engagement)
  • Partner with Commercial Analytics to generate customer and performance insights and lead the translation of those insights and field feedback into clear strategic priorities and actionable marketing programs
  • Partner with key stakeholders across Medical Affairs, Market Access, Sales, Regulatory, Legal and Compliance to deliver high-quality, compliant promotional and educational content
  • Effectively lead agencies to achieve high quality deliverables within time and budget scopes
  • Champion strategic project initiatives to drive future brand growth and operational efficiencies, including AI-enabled solutions
  • Define KPIs to measure marketing performance, ROI, brand impact and contribution to prescription growth; regularly report outcomes and optimization recommendations to leadership.
  • Manage budget to corporate targets
  • Contribute to a collaborative, mission-driven culture focused on delivering meaningful outcomes for patients
  • Effectively build, lead, coach and manage teams supporting achievement of business objectives and employee development

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree required, MBA is a plus
  • Minimum of 10 years in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry and 8+ years of proven experience in brand marketing
  • People management experience

Nice To Have

  • Experience in nephrology is a plus
  • Experience in developing and executing personal, non-personal and peer-to-peer marketing
  • Proven ability to influence without authority and partner with cross-functional teams in the development and delivery of brand strategic imperatives
  • Proven project and vendor management skills including budget management, planning, prioritization, objective setting, and logistics execution
  • Strong written and presentation skills
  • Ability to travel up to 20% to attend sales meetings, customer visits and relevant medical congresses within the U.S.

Benefits

  • health care
  • vision
  • dental
  • retirement
  • PTO
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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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