Director, GCS Portfolio Marketing Group (Secondment - 6 Months)
About The Position
The Director, GCS Portfolio Marketing Group is an individual contributor role responsible for executing high-quality portfolio marketing deliverables across GCS brands in support of the centralized execution model. This colleague will bring senior commercial judgment and serves as a mentor and quality anchor for Sr. Manager and Manager-level colleagues— helping to elevate team output and accelerate colleague development across the centralized model. In a transformed, AI-enabled GCS operating environment, this colleague will partner with brand leads, cross-functional teams, and centralized portfolio marketing colleagues to support brand execution across Core (brands reaching major LCM milestones) and Opportunistic (revenue & growth brands) brand categories. The Director will focus on delivering core portfolio marketing outputs, supporting cross-brand execution needs, applying standardized tools and processes, and helping advance AI-enabled ways of working. This role is critical to enabling GCS to deliver consistent, efficient, and scalable commercial execution across the portfolio.
Requirements
- Must have a bachelor's degree with at least 8+ years of experience.
- 8+ years of experience in pharmaceutical marketing, commercial execution, brand support, commercial operations, or related field.
- Strong understanding of pharmaceutical brand marketing across lifecycle stages, including launch, growth, LOE, and near-LOE.
- Experience developing or supporting commercial marketing deliverables across brands, functions, or geographies.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple execution priorities and deliver high-quality work in a matrixed environment.
- Strong communication, organization, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
- Permanent work authorization in the United States.
Nice To Haves
- Master's degree with at least 7+ years of experience; OR a PhD with 5+ years of experience, OR a MD with 4+ years of experience.
- Knowledge of commercial execution functions such as content production, market research, congress and MedEd support, RWE, competitive intelligence, and training delivery.
- Experience working with US and International commercial organizations.
- Experience supporting portfolio-level marketing execution or centralized commercial capabilities.
- Comfort working in an AI-enabled or AI-augmented environment; experience with AI tools in a commercial setting is a plus.
- Ability to translate complex inputs into clear, actionable, high-quality deliverables.
- Track record of improving execution processes, tools, templates, or ways of working.
- Ability to thrive in ambiguity and adapt to evolving operating models.
- Discretion, sound judgment, and trustworthiness in handling confidential or sensitive organizational matters.
- Candidate demonstrates a breadth of diverse leadership experiences and capabilities including: the ability to influence and collaborate with peers, develop and coach others, oversee and guide the work of other colleagues to achieve meaningful outcomes and create business impact.
Responsibilities
- Execute centralized portfolio marketing deliverables across assigned GCS brands and priority workstreams.
- Support content production, market research and ATU synthesis, congress and MedEd preparation, RWE compendia, training delivery, competitive intelligence, and related commercial execution activities.
- Translate brand priorities, market insights, and stakeholder input into clear, high-quality commercial outputs.
- Ensure deliverables are accurate, timely, strategically aligned, and fit-for-purpose for brand and stakeholder needs.
- Apply established templates, playbooks, tools, and ways of working to drive consistency across portfolio marketing outputs.
- Partner with GCS brand leads and cross-functional stakeholders to understand execution needs and deliver against agreed priorities.
- Support collaboration across US and International commercial teams to align executional outputs where appropriate and avoid duplication.
- Prepare materials, summaries, updates, and execution deliverables for brand discussions, operating reviews, and stakeholder meetings.
- Build trusted working relationships across brand teams, GCS Portfolio Marketing Group, and enabling functions.
- Identify opportunities to streamline execution processes, improve output quality, and reduce manual effort.
- Contribute to standardization of portfolio marketing tools, templates, and repeatable delivery models.
- Support adoption of AI-enabled tools and workflows to improve speed, consistency, and efficiency.
- Share learnings and best practices across centralized portfolio marketing colleagues.
- Use AI-enabled tools to support content development, synthesis, analysis, workflow efficiency, and execution quality.
- Help embed AI-augmented approaches into day-to-day portfolio marketing delivery.
- Stay current on emerging tools and practices that can enhance commercial execution in a compliant and responsible way.
- Actively mentor and develop Senior Manager and Manager-level colleagues, providing structured guidance on execution quality, commercial craft, and cross-brand ways of working.
- Support an apprenticeship model within the team by helping identify development opportunities, mentoring colleagues through cross-brand execution work, and building therapeutic area, lifecycle, and functional exposure that prepares colleagues for future brand-facing roles.
- Contribute to post-project learnings to refine future brand rotations, delivery models, and AI tooling — helping build a continuously improving team.
- Help showcase centralized resource-delivered work to GCS leadership to build team pride and set quality benchmarks.
Benefits
- Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
