Director, Commercial Strategy Marketing Excellence

Herspiegel Consulting • Philadelphia, PA

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About The Position

Herspiegel is a global life sciences consultancy that guides pharmaceutical and biotech companies through their most decisive moments—powering commercial success and expanding patient access. From early asset strategy to launch readiness and market optimization, we help clients navigate complexity and seize opportunity. Our integrated approach brings together scientific insight, evidence strategy, deep market intuition, and executional precision to ensure brands are built to lead. Our Directors are client-facing critical thinkers, who contribute to project planning, deliver high-quality work, and build client relationships. Our projects vary in scope, duration, therapeutic area, therefore versatility & subject-matter expertise are required. You’ll be assigned to projects designed to challenge and level-up your skill sets in disease area knowledge, project management, written and verbal communication, relationship building, leadership as well as collaboration. Responsibilities may include: Consistent client engagement to develop strategic presentations, project plans and project updates, can be expected to manage projects and/or junior team members, where appropriate Development of client deliverables including business cases, therapeutic area landscapes, commercial launch plans, strategy documents, strategic & operational plans, timelines, educational resources, and others Development and management of projects including project plans, meeting coordination, status report development, client meeting planning/facilitation/note capture, follow-up communications Data analysis including forecast development, sample planning, and market research insights Client customer interviews (HCP, patient, payer) and report generation Business opportunity identification Increasing depth of knowledge in a therapeutic area and functional knowledge in pharmaceutical marketing which can be applied to future client project Understanding of project scope & team time management to ensure alignment with contract

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or advanced life science degree preferred
• Preferred at least 5 years relevant experience preference from consulting experience, Or Senior Manager level brand leads, Account service directors from agency settings.
• Project management (including spreadsheet and database management, agile project management methodologies)
• Quantitative analysis and visualization (including Excel, Google Sheets, SAS, Stata); program management
• Contract development
• Industry compliance & risk management
• Budget development, budget management, and forecasting
• Customer relationship management
• Stakeholder analysis and stakeholder engagement
• Policy and procedure development; Process optimization and process improvement
• Measurement, goal-setting and KPIs
• Understanding of integrated activities including but not limited to digital health & omnichannel
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Self-motivated, highly detail-oriented, and extremely well organized
• Candidates should have desire for an engaging, fast-paced career in dynamic, growing organization
• Ability to manage one or more projects simultaneously
• Frequent travel (>25%) to client locations as well as team in-person working sessions is required.

Responsibilities

• Consistent client engagement to develop strategic presentations, project plans and project updates, can be expected to manage projects and/or junior team members, where appropriate
• Development of client deliverables including business cases, therapeutic area landscapes, commercial launch plans, strategy documents, strategic & operational plans, timelines, educational resources, and others
• Development and management of projects including project plans, meeting coordination, status report development, client meeting planning/facilitation/note capture, follow-up communications
• Data analysis including forecast development, sample planning, and market research insights
• Client customer interviews (HCP, patient, payer) and report generation
• Business opportunity identification
• Increasing depth of knowledge in a therapeutic area and functional knowledge in pharmaceutical marketing which can be applied to future client project
• Understanding of project scope & team time management to ensure alignment with contract

Benefits

• Herspiegel companies have been recognized as a Top Life Science Consulting Provider, Best Life Science Commercialization Consultancy Firm, UK’s Best Places to Work, UK & Ireland's Top 50 Inspiring Workplaces, silver sustainability rating by EcoVadis, and?Best Healthcare and Wellbeing Benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees