Associate Director, Global Marketing

MSD • Rahway, NJ

1d • $142,400 - $224,100 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Global Specialty pipeline offers great promise across a broad range of areas with high unmet medical need, including immunology, ophthalmology, and PAH/rare disease. With late-stage development programs and anticipated launches, Global Specialty is positioned to be a key driver of future growth and patient impact. This is an opportunity to join an organization with a talented team of colleagues who bring high energy, passion, and patient-driven purpose.

Reporting to the Executive Director, Launch Excellence & Business Operations, the Associate Director, Launch Excellence and Operations will play a critical role in enabling successful global launch planning and operational execution across key Global Specialty therapeutic areas. This leader will partner closely with Global Brand Teams and cross-functional stakeholders to drive launch readiness and operational excellence.

With multiple launches occurring across the Long-Range Operating Plan period, this role will be essential in ensuring consistency, coordination, and efficiency in launch planning activities across Global Specialty and the broader organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• Minimum of 5 years pharmaceutical experience.
• Strong commercial and business acumen.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders simultaneously.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, adapt quickly, and drive results in a fast-paced environment.
• Inclusive leadership style with strong collaboration skills and ability to build trust and credibility across varied and cross-functional teams.
• Ability to lead and influence without authority.
• Strategic mindset combined with strong operational execution capabilities.
• Demonstrated ability to solve problems and identify solutions.
• Excellent written, verbal, facilitation, and presentation skills.

Nice To Haves

• MBA
• Previous commercial experience with a focus in marketing.
• Previous launch planning experience.
• Understanding of pharmaceutical commercialization landscape and trends.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Global Brand Teams and cross-functional stakeholders to support launch planning activities across the Global Specialty portfolio.
• Drive consistency in launch planning methodologies, tools, and processes, ensuring effective utilization of established launch excellence frameworks.
• Monitoring launch readiness milestones across regions and markets and facilitating issue identification and resolution.
• Leverage digital planning tools and dashboards to track launch preparedness, interdependencies, communicate progress, and flag risks quickly identifying opportunities for optimization.
• Facilitate incorporation of regional and market perspectives into global launch plans.
• Capture and disseminate launch best practices, learnings, and insights across franchises and functions.
• Provide input into the development of global standards for launch planning, processes, and tools to drive excellence.
• Provide teams with operational support across a range of topics supporting the launch planning process, including but not limited to launch readiness reviews, global launch events, Launch Readiness Reviews, and Asset Commercialization Team meetings.
• Lead or contribute to cross-functional projects that support operational excellence, business priorities, and organizational effectiveness.
• Support the Executive Director, Launch Excellence & Business Operations as needed on operational initiatives.

Benefits

• medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
• retirement benefits, including 401(k)
• paid holidays
• vacation
• compassionate and sick days
• annual bonus
• long-term incentive

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level