Job Description

Join the premier biopharmaceutical company that has been in Asia Pacific for over 60 years

Bring your entrepreneurial curiosity and learning spirit into a career of purpose, personal growth, and leadership.

Work with key stakeholders and commercial leaders, and provide critical insights to help shape the best outcome, aligned with overall business objectives and in line with operational requirements.

Our Human Health Division maintains a "patient first, profits later" ideology. The organization comprises sales, marketing, market access, digital analytics, and commercial professionals passionate about bringing our medicines to our customers worldwide.

Our Marketing team is passionate about bringing our medicines and vaccines to our customers around the world. Through digital listening and patient analytics, we are able to understand our customers\' needs and strive to provide solutions to meet them.

Overview:

As the Executive Director, Regional Marketing Lead, Vaccines & Pharma for Asia Pacific, you will be responsible for providing leadership in all aspects associated with the development and execution of marketing strategy in support of our vaccines, general medicines, and new product portfolios.

You will report directly to the regional president. You will be a member of the Asia Pacific Human Health Leadership Team, which will work closely with global, regional, and market-level marketing colleagues in addition to market access, medical affairs, policy, and external affairs to ensure marketing strategies are aligned and effective in achieving our aims to drive business growth and deliver improved patient outcomes.

What will you do :

Commercial Strategy: Lead a cross-functional regional team to identify therapeutic-focused business development, regulatory, infrastructure development, distribution, and market access and policy opportunities and strategies to enhance or accelerate commercial success.

Business Steward: Work with markets to understand how to optimize resource allocation within and across product portfolios and customer segments. Pressure test market-level assumptions to ensure forecasts are robust and deliverable.

Brand Strategy Development: For each promoted brand, and in collaboration with market-based teams, identify and prioritize regional and market-level opportunities, develop integrated marketing strategies based on customer and marketing insights, support the development and delivery of campaigns, and measure impact.

Insight Generation, Collection, and Sharing: Provide customer, commercial, and marketing input to the GCT and PDTs to shape and influence the global marketing strategy and other deliverables to ensure that GHH assets are available to meet AP market needs.

Commercial and Enterprise Strategy Realization: Contribute to or lead globally and regionally sponsored initiatives ensuring cross-functional alignment and delivery in line with intent, on time, and within budget.

Team Leadership & Talent Development: Maintain/build a team of high-potential talent and actively coach them to ensure aligned focus of activities and challenging on-the-job learning. Build & support talent development across the region and ensure succession planning for critical commercial & marketing functions (locally & regionally).

What should you have:

As the successful candidate, you should have strong commercial and financial acumen and demonstrate exceptional cross-functional and divisional leadership.

You have significant pharmaceutical marketing experience \xe2\x80\x93 preferably within Asia Pacific.

Have a strong desire to contribute toward the realization of our company goals.

You are accustomed to working with a diverse and rapidly changing workload, delivering projects across several teams, timelines, and within a matrix structure.

You are willing to speak up, be open-minded, and appropriately challenge the status quo.

You are a strong collaborator who can align and leverage the strengths within our global, regional, and local function centers of excellence, inclusive of Legal and Compliance, Business Development, Finance, Human Resources, Digital, Data & Analytics, and IT.

You have a strong understanding of financial management and the impact of commercial terms on the top and bottom-line and working capital considerations.

You have project management and process optimisation/simplification experience and a robust understanding of our compliance and business practice standards

You are an exemplar for developing people through on-the-job coaching and mentoring.

Who we are \xe2\x80\xa6

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world\'s most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for \xe2\x80\xa6

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us\xe2\x80\x94and start making your impact today.

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