Director, Marketing Operations

Princeton, NJ (On-site)

$203K/yr – $253K/yrDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own and optimize marketing operations across the full lifecycle from PRC to vendor management, events, and analytics, partnering with Marketing leaders to operationalize omnichannel campaigns and ensure compliant, efficient execution.

  • Own end-to-end PRC and content workflows
  • Lead cross-functional operational initiatives and reporting

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Owns marketing operational infrastructure including the promotional review committee (PRC) workflow and the content lifecycle behind it, promotional material fulfillment and warehousing, speaker program and event operations, meetings and events coordination across the commercial organization, agency and vendor management, budget management, and marketing performance reporting.
  • Partner with the marketing leaders to operationalize their initiatives. Operationalize omnichannel initiatives across email, web, digital, and field channels, including campaign build, deployment, scheduling, and the operational support behind each launch, working from the plans and content Marketing provides.
  • Own speaker program operations in support of the programs Marketing designs, including the speaker program management platform, speaker contracting workflow, and vendor management, with compliance built into the process.
  • Own events, exhibits, and sponsorship operations for the events Marketing and the field commit to, including the management platform, vendor relationships, and cross-team coordination.
  • Own promotional material fulfillment, including the warehouse and fulfillment vendor, print production, drop shipping to the field, and inventory control.
  • Lead promotional review and content operations, partnering cross-functionally with Marketing, Medical, Legal, Regulatory, Compliance, Commercial, and external agencies to ensure timely, compliant review and approval of promotional and market access materials.
  • Establish and optimize commercial operating processes, including SOPs, workflows, capacity planning, training, and performance metrics to improve efficiency, reduce rework, and accelerate time to market.
  • Oversee marketing technology and content management capabilities, serving as the business owner for platforms supporting promotional review, digital asset management, marketing automation, and commercial engagement. Partner with technology teams to define requirements, implement enhancements, and drive user adoption.
  • Develop commercial performance reporting and insights, partnering with Commercial Analytics and Sales Operations to establish KPIs, monitor performance, and support data-driven marketing and field execution.
  • Lead commercial meetings, events, and advisory board operations, overseeing planning, vendors, budgets, logistics, and execution while ensuring appropriate compliance and governance.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, or a related field. MBA preferred.
  • Minimum of 10+ years of marketing operations, commercial operations, or commercial content operations experience within pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, or life sciences, including 2+ years of people or vendor team leadership.
  • Demonstrated expertise coordinating promotional review committee or medical, legal and regulatory review processes in a regulated pharmaceutical environment is required.
  • Hands-on experience with marketing technology platforms, Veeva Vault PromoMats or an equivalent electronic review and content management system is required.
  • Working knowledge of FDA promotional regulations and OPDP submission requirements, including Form 2253.
  • Experience writing and maintaining standard operating procedures for commercial content, and training users on them.
  • Familiarity with modular content strategy, digital asset management, and content taxonomy.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead without direct authority across Marketing, Medical, Legal, Regulatory, and agency partners.
  • Experience standing up a promotional review workflow and managing content through review, approval, distribution, and expiration.
  • Demonstrated experience planning and executing commercial meetings and events, including national sales meetings, congresses, and exhibits, with responsibility for budget and on-site execution.

Preferred

  • Product launch experience preferred.
  • Oncology experience preferred.
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Summit Therapeutics

Summit Mission Statement:To build a viable, long-lasting health care organization that assumes full responsibility for designing, developing, trial execution and enrollment, regulatory submission and approval, as well as successful commercialization of patient, physician, caregiver, and societal-friendly medicinal therapy intended to: improve quality of life, increase potential duration of life, and resolve serious medical healthcare needs. To identify and control promising product candidates based on exceptional scientific development and administrational expertise, develop our products in a rapid, cost-efficient manner, and to engage commercialization and/or development partners when appropriate.We accomplish this by building a team of world class professional scientists and business administrators that apply their experience and knowledge to this mission. Team Summit exists to pose, strategize, and execute a path forward in medicinal therapeutic health care that places Summit in a well-deserved, top market share, leadership position. Team Summit assumes full responsibility for stimulating continuous expansion of knowledge, ability, capability, and well-being for all involved stakeholders and highly-valued shareholders.Summit was founded in 2003 and our shares are listed on the Nasdaq Global Market (symbol ‘SMMT’). We are headquartered in Miami, Florida, and we have additional offices in Menlo Park, California, and Oxford, UK.

Founded in 2003
Miami, Florida, USA
321 employees

Salaries

Posted range

$203K/yr – $253K/yr

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Marketing Team

Median Tenure
0.7 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Funding

Total Funding
$1.8B
Last Raise
$500M
Post IPO Equity, 5 months ago

Funding History

  • Oct 2025
    Post IPO Equity • $500M
  • Sep 2024
    Post IPO Equity • $235M
  • Jun 2024
    Post IPO Equity • $200M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
34.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
50.3%
Direct
40.7%
Referral
6.3%
Social
1.6%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~325

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