Job Description

Our company’s Oncology division is dedicated to delivering breakthrough innovations that extend and improve the lives of cancer patients worldwide. Our team of independent and forward-thinking individuals achieves this through an unwavering commitment to supporting accessibility to medicine, providing new therapeutic procedures, and collaborating with physicians, governments, and payers to ensure that people who need medicines have access to them. At our company, our focus is on innovation and launch execution excellence; we translate breakthrough science into innovative medicines that help people with cancer across the globe.

Our company in Sweden is recruiting for a Brand & Customer Manager in the Oncology Business Unit reporting to the Franchise Lead.

Do you want to help our company become the world's best healthcare company - while unleashing your full potential? Do you dream of a job where you help improve and prolong the lives of real people with cancer? If our values spark your passion for working with us, then you could be our new Brand & Customer Manager, Oncology in Sweden.

We need you on our journey!
As a Brand & Customer Manager Oncology, you will be responsible for defining and implementing the marketing and promotional strategies and activities to support the growth of our Oncology portfolio. In this critical role the Brand & Customer Manager will work cross-functionally together with our Therapeutic Area Managers, Market Access, the Digital team, and other functions to implement the Oncology Business Unit strategy. Furthermore, you will work together with the Medical Affairs team to provide critical customer insights and a coordinated approach to the implementation of promotional and non-promotional field-based activities.

You understand that everything we do is founded on customer insights, so you are striving to identify real customer needs. You will help us become relevant and valuable to our customers and to patients through all appropriate personal and digital channels. You will develop and implement innovative programs and services in line with Customer needs and will search for new and innovative ways of interacting with Customers.

As a Brand & Customer Manager, you are expected actively to engage with customers and key stakeholders (in person and virtually) to deeply understand their needs, gather insights, and build strong relationships that drive strategic brand development and market success. Ensure customer interaction reporting/capturing in adherence to standard processes.

Your responsibilities will also include strategy, for example, analyzing local market trends and identify commercial opportunities, allocating resources and managing budgets. Plus, you are also accountable for the delivery of the marketing strategy and tactics to deliver performance.

You are also a strong project manager and collaborator guiding the cross-functional Brand team and aligning around regional strategy.

As you have some experience within healthcare setting, you already understand the restrictive environment in which we operate, but you also see it as a challenge to explore new approaches, always within our own strict ethical code of conduct and local regulations.

You are passionate about marketing, science, and people!
We are looking for a person that has a can-do attitude and hunger to be leading the change instead of just adjusting to it.

You may have a university degree in Business, Economics or Life science and experience in marketing or project management from a healthcare setting (for example, pharma/biotech/related business) or a Strategy consultancy. You are strong project leader that can informally lead execution of projects across the organization. You are also digital savvy, have high level of analytical skills and expertise in partnering with customers, building sustainable relationships, and leveraging customer insights to drive solutions and strategies.

You have ability to influence and work effectively within a matrix and multi-cultural environment. You are an excellent communicator in both English and preferably Swedish.

As a person, you are ambitious, curious and an executor. You have the maturity and patience required to work in a heavily regulated industry and within a strict compliance environment.

When working at our company, you are encouraged to stay curios and seek future opportunities across the organization, locally and globally.

If you wish to work for a global leader in healthcare, with the most promising oncology brands and the most skilled professionals, we encourage you to apply for this exciting position at our company in Sweden.

Application and further information:
Start the application process by clicking the online link. Please apply before 10th November.

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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:
Regular
Relocation:
No relocation
VISA Sponsorship:
No
Travel Requirements:
25%
Flexible Work Arrangements:
Not Applicable
Shift:
Not Indicated
Valid Driving License:
Yes
Hazardous Material(s):
n/a
Job Posting End Date:
11/11/2024

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Requisition ID:R316962