Job Description
Who we are …
We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases.
What we look for …
Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time.
Our Animal Health Division is a trusted global leader in veterinary medicine, dedicated to preserving and improving health, well-being, and performance of animals and the people who care for them.
In this position, the Business Execution Lead is responsible for making the most business impact and value generation by working with regional leadership. You will lead priority business drivers, and the development of regional and country roadmaps. The Business Execution Lead will represent Global Companion Animal Marketing in its entirety to Regional Vice Presidents, General Managers, and marketing leadership.
Primary Activities include, but are not limited to:
Drive marketing strategy for new products and cross-portfolio initiatives through assigned region.
Develop regional and key market alignment in support of priority business drivers.
Lead Regional and Country roadmap process and create Marketing Implementation Plans to maximize revenue.
Direct and monitor marketing investments to identify areas to improve efficiency and return.
Oversee and implement Regional Marketing training to ensure regional consistency.
Coach Business Unit directors on promotional expense optimization.
Work with the Digital enablement department and the regional and local marketing teams to develop customer journeys and omnichannel operational strategy.
Communicate, collaborate, and align actions with key stakeholders within regional commercial organizations.
Provide marketing team leadership to ensure successful implementation to support product launches throughout the world.
Understand how the digital platforms and products are performing and drive iterative change as necessary to drive measurable results.
Collaborate with markets and regional management for new product demand requirements.
Coordinate with supply chain to ensure alignment and prioritization of material availability to support market launches.
Main requirements:
Bachelor's Degree;
Master's Degree or Advanced degree in marketing, advertising, sales communications, or promotion is preferred;
Excellent English communication skills, both written and spoken;
Strong life science, Veterinary medicine, animal science, medical marketing and business experience is highly preferred;
Broad work experience in marketing and related sales support activities;
Successful track record to create best performing positioning, campaigns and tactical communication initiatives;
Proven marketing experience of successful product launches with measured results;
Good acumen of digital marketing planning and operational execution;
Excellent ability to manage workflow with regional and local markets;
Familiarity of the Animal Health industry or related industry, marketing, and commercial Operations;
Monitoring performance metrics including revenue, pricing, forecasting, sales cycle, markets, and sales opportunity targets;
Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills;
Flexibility to support launches across multiple regions throughout the world when necessary.
We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another's thinking and approach problems collectively. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.
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