Job Description

The company's vaccine Product Marketing Owner position represents an exciting, and business critical role in a key growth driver area for our Company.In this role, you will be a strategic partner to the US Commercial Leader, responsible for maximizing the success of current and future brand opportunities for our pediatric pneumococcal business. Additionally, you will lead a Customer Agile Team, which is a cross-functional team made up of experts in both brand and digital marketing. Using agile principles, your leadership will translate brand priorities into actionable plans that drive strategic direction and deliver value to customers and stakeholders while improving public health.The position is based out of Upper Gwynedd, PA and will report directly to the Executive Director, US Commercial Leader.Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Collaborate with the US Commercial Leader and brand strategy leads to develop and evolve brand strategies, maximizing our current opportunities and identifying opportunities for future growth
• Take full responsibility for leading CAT in setting and meeting strategic priorities and trimester objectives; lead agile trimester planning stages to enable teams to respond quickly and effectively to changing business needs and priorities
• Prioritize key business opportunities across the pediatric pneumococcal business, ensuring the team is focused on highest value opportunities
• Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing Customer Agile Team, comprised of experts in marketing, campaign design, development, and measurement
• Drive forward digital and data analytics, customer, and market insights to define strategic choices
• Utilize a test and learn approach, leveraging data to optimize strategy and execution
• Lead CAT to meet trimester milestones, including strategy evolution and promotional campaigns
• Serve as subject matter expert for market understanding and customer insights providing expertise and guidance to CAT
• Collaborate with key stakeholders across the enterprise including Data & Analytics, Contracting & Distribution, Vaccine Portfolio Marketing Teams, Sales, Medical Affairs, Policy, OCAR, Finance, Global Marketing, Manufacturing, Global Communications, Regulatory, and Legal/Compliance
• Manage Development Team budgets and profit plan point decisions
• Partner with other US Vaccines Product Marketing Owners to drive transparency, coordination, and prioritization across the teams
• Collaborate with Legal, Regulatory, Compliance, and the Customer Agile Team during RPM, review, and office hours

Education:

• Required: BA/BS
• Preferred: MBA

Required Experience and Skills:

• Minimum of (5) years combined experience in marketing, customer segment marketing and/or payer marketing
• Adaptability to change, and demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with various teams including marketing, sales, medical, and other cross-functional partners to achieve business results
• Experience leading cross-functional teams without authority to achieve business results and advocate for agile ways of working
• Demonstrated use of data to make strategic choices and solve problems
• Deep understanding of omnichannel marketing, including digital and non-digital channels, and experience working with agencies
• Proficiency in fiscal management, including brand budgeting, profit planning, and sales forecasting

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Prior experience in the U.S. vaccines marketplace
• Understanding of US commercial and regulatory requirements
• Familiarity with agile tools like Jira, Trimester Business Review, and Mural

Current Employees applyCurrent Contingent Workers applyUS 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 if you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process.We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. For more information about personal rights under the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment laws, visit:We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one anothers thinking and approach problems collectively.U.S. Hybrid Work ModelEffective 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.San Francisco Residents Only: We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance OrdinanceLos 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 OrdinanceSearch 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: RegularRelocation: No relocationVISA Sponsorship: NoTravel Requirements: 10%Flexible Work Arrangements: HybridShift: 1st - DayValid Driving License: NoHazardous Material(s): n/aJob Posting End Date: 03/11/2025*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.

MSD