Senior Director, Regional Marketing

Princeton, NJ (On-site)

$220K/yr – $270K/yrSenior Level12+ years expFull time

Posted 8 days ago

Job Summary

Own the U.S. regional marketing strategy and build a high-performing team to drive commercial objectives through regional insights, customer engagement, and cross-functional leadership.

  • Lead regional strategy, KPIs, and governance
  • Develop and mentor Regional Marketing Directors and align cross-functional partners

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Establish and lead the overall U.S. regional marketing strategy and operating model, ensuring alignment with corporate, brand, launch, and commercial objectives.
  • Establish strategic priorities, objectives, KPIs, and performance expectations for the regional marketing organization and ensure consistent execution across regions.
  • Provide strategic oversight of regional customer engagement initiatives, ensuring resources and activities are appropriately prioritized against the highest-value opportunities.
  • Serve as a senior strategic advisor to Commercial leadership on regional market opportunities, customer dynamics, competitive intelligence, and implications for brand and commercial strategy.
  • Partner with Marketing leadership to ensure regional insights meaningfully influence brand strategy, positioning, segmentation, customer engagement, and launch planning.
  • Build, recruit, hire, onboard, develop, and lead a high-performing team of Regional Marketing Directors aligned to the Company's evolving commercial and geographic needs.
  • Establish the organizational structure, roles, responsibilities, capabilities, and performance expectations necessary to support a high-performing regional marketing organization.
  • Provide ongoing leadership, coaching, mentoring, and development to Regional Marketing Directors, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and customer-centricity.
  • Establish and maintain consistent regional marketing standards, operating processes, and governance across the team while allowing appropriate flexibility based on market-specific needs.
  • Establish the strategic framework for engagement with National and Regional Thought Leaders, including segmentation, prioritization, engagement planning, and cross-functional coordination.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience; advanced degree preferred.
  • Minimum of 12+ years of progressive experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or healthcare marketing, with demonstrated experience supporting commercial products and/or launches.
  • Demonstrated leadership experience building, recruiting, developing, and managing high-performing marketing teams, preferably within a pharmaceutical or biotechnology organization.
  • Demonstrated experience leading regional marketing strategy and organizational capabilities within the U.S. pharmaceutical or biopharmaceutical industry.
  • Oncology experience is required, with experience supporting the commercialization and/or launch of oncology products strongly preferred.
  • Demonstrated ability to translate national brand strategy into differentiated regional strategies and customer engagement approaches.
  • Strong understanding of the U.S. healthcare ecosystem, including payer dynamics, treatment pathways, healthcare delivery systems, and the evolving oncology marketplace.
  • Demonstrated experience engaging with National and Regional Thought Leaders, key healthcare stakeholders, and other priority customers.
  • Experience providing strategic oversight of commercial advisory boards, speaker programs, congress strategy and execution, and other customer engagement initiatives.
  • Demonstrated ability to synthesize complex customer, market, and competitive insights and translate them into actionable strategic recommendations.

Preferred

  • Advanced degree 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

$220K/yr – $270K/yr

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Marketing Team

Median Tenure
0.7 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

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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