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Associate Director, Marketing

MSD
USA
Full-time
Director · 5+ years experience
Hybrid
Discovered 2 days ago

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Requirements:

  • A minimum of 5 years’ healthcare, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or related industry experience, including strategic marketing, brand management, or customer strategy.
  • Demonstrated experience developing and executing HCP promotional resources and tactics.
  • Strong strategic thinking, problem-solving, analytical, and planning skills, with the ability to translate market insights, customer understanding, and data analytics into clear action.
  • Proven cross-functional leadership and project management skills, including the ability to influence without direct authority, operationalize priorities, and navigate complex, matrixed organizations with urgency and focus.
  • Excellent communication, presentation, and cross-functional stakeholder engagement skills.
  • Understanding of omnichannel marketing, including digital and non-digital customer engagement channels.
  • Demonstrates high integrity, business agility, and a growth mindset.
  • Preferred Skills:
  • Product launch experience in a highly competitive or crowded therapeutic market.
  • Experience in Gastroenterology, Immunology, or Specialty Biologics.
  • Awareness and understanding of U.S. commercial and regulatory requirements, including promotional review processes.
  • Agency partnership and vendor management experience.
  • MBA or equivalent advanced degree.
  • This is a hybrid role based in Upper Gwynedd, PA, with an expectation of working on-site three days per week.
  • Adaptability, Advertising Campaign Development, Agile Methodology, Creative Campaign Development, Decision Making, Digital Analytics, Marketing Budget Management, Marketing Strategy Implementation, Market Research, People Leadership, Pharmaceutical Industry, Pricing Strategies, Principles of Marketing, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Strategic Thinking

Required Skills:

  • Adaptability, Advertising Campaign Development, Agile Methodology, Creative Campaign Development, Decision Making, Digital Analytics, Marketing Budget Management, Marketing Strategy Implementation, Market Research, People Leadership, Pharmaceutical Industry, Pricing Strategies, Principles of Marketing, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Strategic Thinking

Preferred Skills:

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  • US and Puerto Rico Residents Only:
  • Our company is committed to inclusion, ensuring that candidates can engage in a hiring process that exhibits their true capabilities. Please click here if you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process.
  • As an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, we provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. As a federal contractor, we comply with all affirmative action requirements for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. For more information about personal rights under the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment laws, visit:
  • EEOC Know Your Rights
  • EEOC GINA Supplement
  • We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing together, talented, and committed people with diverse experiences, perspectives, skills and backgrounds. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when people with diverse ideas, broad experiences, backgrounds, and skills come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively.
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  • The primary location for this posting is:
  • USA - Pennsylvania - North Wales (Upper Gwynedd)
  • Where required by law, the compensation range for this role is provided below.
  • The salary range for the primary location of this role is:
  • $142,400.00 - $224,100.00
  • This range reflects the Company's reasonable expectation of the base salary applicable to this role at the time of posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs. The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable.
  • We offer a comprehensive package of benefits. Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days. More information about benefits is available at https://jobs.merck.com/us/en/compensation-and-benefits.
  • Additional location(s): Please note the salary range above applies to the Primary Location of the position. Where a role has other listed locations, different compensation guidelines may apply. You may find the salary ranges for additional locations below. If the salary range is not listed for the location you are applying to, our Talent Acquisition team will provide further information to you relevant to your location.
  • Additional location(s) Compensation Information:
  • San Francisco Residents Only: We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
  • Los Angeles Residents Only: We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance
  • Search Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails.
  • Employee Status:
  • Regular
  • Relocation:
  • Domestic
  • VISA Sponsorship:
  • No
  • Travel Requirements:
  • 10%
  • Flexible Work Arrangements:
  • Hybrid
  • Shift:
  • Not Indicated
  • Valid Driving License:
  • Hazardous Material(s):
  • Job Posting End Date:
  • 10/30/2026
  • A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFORE the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date.
  • Product launch experience in a highly competitive or crowded therapeutic market.
  • Experience in Gastroenterology, Immunology, or Specialty Biologics.
  • Awareness and understanding of U.S. commercial and regulatory requirements, including promotional review processes.
  • Agency partnership and vendor management experience.
  • MBA or equivalent advanced degree.
  • This is a hybrid role based in Upper Gwynedd, PA, with an expectation of working on-site three days per week.
  • As an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, we provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. As a federal contractor, we comply with all affirmative action requirements for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. For more information about personal rights under the U.S.
  • Search Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully
  • Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails.

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