Executive Director, Global Commercial Leader, Cardiometabolic

Merck • North Wales, PA

2d • $255,800 - $402,700 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Global Pharma pipeline holds significant promise across areas of high unmet medical need, particularly in cardiometabolic disease, with multiple assets advancing into Phase II and III. With late-stage development programs and anticipated launches, Global Pharma is well positioned to drive future growth and meaningful patient impact. Within Global Pharma team, it’s an exciting time as we build an industry-leading cardiometabolic & Neuroscience business that aspires to impact these devastating diseases on a global scale. Our company has made significant progress with advancing our cardiometabolic and rare disease pipeline this year. Moreover, we expect 8 approvals in the next five years across our broad and exciting portfolio.
The Executive Director, Global Commercial Leader, Cardiometabolic will lead three key pipeline products within our company’s expanding cardiometabolic portfolio, with a focus on MASH, obesity & inflammation. These assets have the potential to become best-in-class products and generate blockbuster revenue. In addition, the team will continue to manage inline diabetes brands and our alliance with Bayer.
The Global Commercial Leader will play an important role in supporting the commercial transformation and leadership of our launches, pipeline including new ways of working, embedding advanced analytics, evolving the commercial models and building value for patients, payers and HCP. This role will also support the commercial leadership in our Business Development efforts to help support growth and leadership in this space.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree required
• Minimum of 10 years combined marketing, sales, market access, or related experiences in pharmaceutical or biotechnology industries including Obesity, Metabolism, Cardiovascular and payer experience.
• Launch and pipeline strategy experience is preferred

Nice To Haves

• Advanced Degree (MBA) preferred
• Proven track record of high-performance launches and driving business results.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage innovation to drive results
• Strong collaboration skills, both within commercial teams and cross divisional teams including R&D and manufacturing, and value & implementation.
• Ability to clearly articulate messages/information across the enterprise and to all levels, including highest levels of senior leadership
• Understanding of Drug Development Process (Early and Late Stage)
• Proven ability to manage complex data, insights and create clear patient and customer centric strategies
• Ability to push past internal obstacles to drive initiatives forward

Responsibilities

• Oversee the realization of the vision and enterprise strategy for our broad Cardiometabolic, Obesity, MASH, and Inflammation portfolios, while ensuring continued optimization of our legacy inline Diabetes brands.
• Lead the commercial stewardship and joint governance of our highly complex strategic alliance with Bayer.
• Provide commercial leadership and partner with our Research and Development (R&D) division to optimize product development team (PDT) global brand strategies, development plans, and late-stage/Phase 3 launch readiness.
• Lead the Global Commercial team and ensure the integration of marketing, policy, GMAx, Clinical, and V&I in the development of an integrated brand strategy. Collaborate with key markets and other stakeholders to ensure a unified strategy covering value evidence, rapid and broad access, launch readiness, and a customer-centric commercial model.
• Support development efforts with R&D and Corporate Business Development. Collaborate with the Business Development Team to identify growth opportunities and evaluate targets in the CV/Metabolic and Inflammation spaces.
• Work closely with Early Development Commercial Leads to ensure commercial insights within the metabolic and inflammation spaces are incorporated.
• Drive forward AI & digital innovation, focusing on strategy development, optimization of analytics, and tactic development through the commercial team and key markets to support consistent execution at the local country level.
• Engage the access and policy teams to identify relevant policy levers to support portfolio access.
• Maintain a strong level of collaboration with our Manufacturing colleagues to inform short-term and long-term supply chain decisions for a rapidly growing pipeline.
• Partner with the Value and Implementation team to ensure the real-world evidence plan is fully aligned with pipeline and portfolio priorities.
• Partner with Global Marketing colleagues to invest in each other’s development, build a culture of inclusivity, and stretch our collective team’s thinking by challenging the status quo to create stronger outcomes during this period of massive organizational growth.

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

What This Job Offers

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