Director, Marketing Operations

Princeton, NJ (On-site)

$190K/yr – $237K/yrDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive the marketing operations function to enable brand, portfolio, and commercial goals in a regulated biotech environment, delivering scalable processes, governance, and cross-functional alignment.

  • Own the marketing operations model and end-to-end processes.
  • Must-have: 10+ years in biotech/pharma marketing operations with MLR/compliance.
  • Standout: Proven cross-functional leadership spanning Marketing, IT, Legal, Regulatory.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Define and own the marketing operations operating model to support brand, portfolio, and commercial goals.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to senior commercial and marketing leadership on operational best practices, risk mitigation, and scalability.
  • Develop and manage the marketing operations framework, including processes, timelines, workflows, and governance across brand and digital operations initiatives.
  • Serve as the operational conduit between Marketing, Digital Strategy, Medical, Legal, Regulatory, and external vendors/agencies.
  • Collaboratively develop and implement cross-functional standard operating procedures (SOPs) for marketing operations execution and compliance.
  • Drive operational excellence by identifying inefficiencies, implementing best practices, and continuously improving workflows.
  • Provide oversight for digital operations execution, including but not limited to, marketing CRM, marketing automation, email, and omnichannel campaign execution.
  • Partner across Commercial Operations, IT, and Data teams to implement, and optimize marketing technology platforms (e.g., Veeva, Salesforce, DAM, CMS).
  • Ensure consistent, compliant execution of digital assets across channels and brands.
  • Champion operational readiness for new digital capabilities and evolving omnichannel strategies and tactics.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree required
  • Minimum of 10+ years of experience in marketing operations within biotech, pharmaceutical, or regulated healthcare industries.
  • Demonstrated leadership of MLR review processes and promotional compliance at an enterprise level.
  • Experience managing digital marketing operations and marketing technology ecosystems.
  • Proven experience leading teams and influencing senior stakeholders in a matrixed organization.
  • Experience with Veeva Vault (PromoMats, MedComms), Salesforce, and marketing automation platforms.
  • Experience supporting multiple therapeutic areas, brands, or portfolios across different lifecycle stages.
  • Change management or operational transformation experience.
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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

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

Marketing Team

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

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