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Director, Strategic Planning

AT Merck
Merck

Director, Strategic Planning

Spring House, PA

Job Description

Responsibilities:

  • Build enterprise mindset across US Market's Oncology, Vaccine, Pharma and Rare Disease business units.
  • Embed consistent launch operation capabilities throughout the organization.
  • Partner with Global Launch Excellence, Commercial Leadership and Marketing
  • Leadership to ensure strategic alignment and transparency across enterprise-wide product launch teams.
  • Strategically partner with New Product Leaders, Marketing Leaders, and BU CMOs to identify critical functional preparation based on launch archetype.
  • Develop agile launch strategies and methods to accelerate cross-functional team execution.
  • Lead, manage and develop launch planners.
  • Partner with senior management, key stakeholders, and teams on how to deliver commercial and customer impact.
  • Partner with Marketing to develop strategic opportunity spaces and distill strategic opportunities into actionable execution plans.
  • Co-develop the business unit commercial agility roadmap by partnering with Business Unit Leaders, Marketing Leaders, and interfacing COEs.
  • Partner with Marketing and cross-functional partners on facilitating Quarter Business Review and Objectives and Key Results.
  • 10% domestic travel required.

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Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Biotechnology, General Management, Business, Marketing, or a related field and 5 years of experience in the position offered or related.
  • Must have 5 years of experience with the following: working in Pharmaceutical Commercial industry, specifically in either Marketing, Sales, Strategy & Planning, or Commercial Operations; collaborating with senior leaders and across a broad group of stakeholders on complex projects; and executing marketing or commercial business initiatives across a broad group of stakeholders such COEs, strategic partners, marketing leaders and executive sponsors.
  • Must have worked on at least two (2) pharmaceutical product launches or pharmaceutical indication launches.

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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".

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Employee Status:
Regular

Relocation:
No relocation

VISA Sponsorship:
No

Travel Requirements:
10%

Flexible Work Arrangements:
Not Applicable

Shift:
1st - Day

Valid Driving License:
No

Hazardous Material(s):
No

Job Posting End Date:
03/4/2025
*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.

Requisition ID:R327087

Client-provided location(s): North Wales, PA 19454, USA
Job ID: Merck-1629106420
Employment Type: Full Time