Director - Scientific Marketing Affairs, Dermatology job in Rahway
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Rahway, New Jersey - NJ Merck & Co., Inc.
| Job Ref: | R390270 |
| Employer: | Merck & Co., Inc. |
| Category: | General Marketing |
| Job Type: | Full Time |
| Salary and Benefits: | USD 173,200.00 - 272,600.00 per year |
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| State: | New Jersey - NJ |
| City: | Rahway |
| Map: | United States, New Jersey , Rahway (Show on map) |
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Director - Scientific Marketing Affairs, Dermatology The Companion Animal (CA) Business unit leads strategy development and execution across markets throughout the world. It drives global marketing strategies and activities to drive successful key CA launches and maximizes the value of in-line products. Our company's Animal Health has a very robust pipeline of new products and initiatives providing customer benefits and driving business growth. Within our company's Animal Health Companion Animal portfolio, Bravecto, Caninsulin, Nobivac, the Otic Portfolio, and Home Again are leaders within their respective categories. The Director is responsible for setting medical strategy for the Global CA Dermatology portfolio for all aspects of medical marketing activity including publications, conferences, and medical education planning, as well as thought leader and key opinion leader engagement. This position is part of the medical affairs and veterinary relations team which provides actionable medical insights to marketing franchises and commercial teams to drive business performance. Providing excellence in scientific support activities to assist customers and capture the most value in alignment with division's strategic initiatives is essential. This is a new position requiring a veterinarian with vision, strong market and commercial understanding, and outstanding presentation and influencing skills. You will be responsible for helping to shape medical policy that impacts our company's offerings, delivers best-in-class medical education, develops worldwide key thought leader support, and provides marketing technical support for our company's Animal Health Global Companion Animal business unit. You will also have responsibility for influencing category growth, driving year over year sales growth, implementing the company's global medical affairs strategy, and defining synergies between the company's therapeutic portfolio. Further, in conjunction with Research and Development, you will influence the future pipeline direction utilizing your deep understanding of the needs and motivators that drive behavior of veterinarians, their clients, and patients. This position reports directly to the Executive Director - CA Global Medical Affairs & Veterinary Relations of the Companion Animal Business Unit. You will be a key member of the technical services team with a scope of influence extending globally, leading and influencing extended teams consisting of 10 to 100 commercial and technical services team members across all geographies. Our Veterinary experts use their scientific background to provide technical expertise and education to our customers, sales, and marketing teams. With a deep knowledge of pharmacology and animal health, we engage scientific exchange with external experts & industry leaders ensuring the scientific value of our animal health portfolio is understood. This position is an essential and prominent leadership position, will collaborate closely with global companion animal leadership setting strategic direction, and will interact and influence at all levels of the company (including Executive Leadership) to ensure optimized and successful CA new product marketing strategy and competitive differentiation. Primary Activities: Accountable to lead scientific and medical strategies for the launch of the company's new dermatology products, understand customer and category dynamics, influence formulary decisions, identify growth opportunities, define competitive advantages, and set a work standard of excellence by providing a best-in-class scientific/professional image within the veterinary industry.
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Required Skills: Animal Science, Competitive Advantages, Confidentiality, Cross-Cultural Awareness, Customer Collaborations, Customer Handling, Data-Driven Decision Making, Emergency Care, Market Research, Medical Care, Medical Teaching, Multicultural Environments, Parasitology, Personal Relationships, Pet Care, Pricing Strategies, Sales Services, Segmentation Strategy, Self Motivation, Strategic Thinking, Technology Platforms, Veterinary Consulting, Veterinary Medicine, Veterinary Pathology, Virology Preferred Skills: Current Employees apply HERE Current Contingent Workers apply HERE 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. 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Learn more about your rights, including under California, Colorado and other US State Acts U.S. Hybrid Work Model Effective September 5, 2023, employees in office-based positions in the U.S. will be working a Hybrid work consisting of three total days on-site per week, Monday - Thursday, although the specific days may vary by site or organization, with Friday designated as a remote-working day, unless business critical tasks require an on-site presence.This Hybrid work model does not apply to, and daily in-person attendance is required for, field-based positions; facility-based, manufacturing-based, or research-based positions where the work to be performed is located at a Company site; positions covered by a collective-bargaining agreement (unless the agreement provides for hybrid work); or any other position for which the Company has determined the job requirements cannot be reasonably met working remotely. Please note, this Hybrid work model guidance also does not apply to roles that have been designated as "remote". The salary range for this role is $173,200.00 - $272,600.00 This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this 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. 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