About Summit:
Summit Therapeutics Inc. is a biopharmaceutical oncology company with a mission focused on improving quality of life, increasing potential duration of life, and resolving serious unmet medical needs. At Summit, we believe in building a team of world class professionals who are passionate about this mission, and it is our people who drive this mission to reality. Summit’s core values include integrity, passion for excellence, purposeful urgency, collaboration, and our commitment to people. Our employees are truly the heart and soul of our culture, and they are invaluable in shaping our journey toward excellence.
Summit’s team is inspired to touch and help change lives through Summit’s clinical studies in the field of oncology. Summit has multiple global Phase 3 clinical studies, including:
Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)
HARMONi: Phase 3 clinical study which was intended to evaluate ivonescimab combined with chemotherapy compared to placebo plus chemotherapy in patients with EGFR-mutated, locally advanced or metastatic non-squamous NSCLC who were previously treated with a 3rd generation EGFR TKI.
HARMONi-3: Phase 3 clinical study which is intended to evaluate ivonescimab combined with chemotherapy compared to pembrolizumab combined with chemotherapy in patients with first-line metastatic NSCLC.
HARMONi-7: Phase 3 clinical study which is intended to evaluate ivonescimab monotherapy compared to pembrolizumab monotherapy in patients with first-line metastatic NSCLC.
Colorectal Cancer (CRC)
HARMONi-GI3: Phase 3 clinical study intended to evaluate ivonescimab in combination with chemotherapy compared with bevacizumab plus chemotherapy.
Ivonescimab is an investigational therapy not presently approved by any regulatory authority other than China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA). Summit is headquartered in Miami, Florida, and has additional offices in California, New Jersey, the UK, and Ireland.
Overview of Role:
The Associate Director of HCP Promotional Marketing will support the implementation and execution of brand strategy and core messaging for our NSCLC indications, helping to bring a clear, compelling brand narrative to life for HCPs. In this role, you will play a key part in translating strategy into effective field-facing and scientific engagement experiences.
Reporting to the Director of HCP Promotional Marketing, you will partner closely with cross-functional teams to ensure consistent pull through of messaging across channels and touchpoints. This role offers the opportunity to serve as a strong operational leader, contributing to high quality execution while building influence and expertise within a dynamic, launch focused organization.
Role and Responsibilities:
- Lead execution of the HCP brand strategy and core messaging for NSCLC indications, ensuring strong pull-through with the US field sales team and across key promotional touchpoints
- Serve as the marketing partner for the field, translating brand strategy and complex scientific concepts into clear, actionable execution guidance to drive effective HCP engagement
- Support the development, review, and approval of compliant derivative promotional materials that extend core brand messaging across channels
- Support planning and execution of promotional congress and major meeting activities
- Partner closely with Sales Leadership and Field Learning & Development to support field meetings, training material, and ongoing field enablement initiatives
- Monitor field feedback, marketplace insights, and competitive dynamics to inform ongoing optimization of messaging and execution
- Translate clinical data and strategic direction into compelling, compliant derivative promotional materials
- Support refinement of messaging based on evolving data, competitive landscape, and field insights
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Medical, Legal, Regulatory, Market Access, and Insights to ensure high-quality, compliant execution
- Travel as needed to support congresses and key business priorities
- All other duties as assigned.
Experience, Education and Specialized Knowledge and Skills:
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, or a related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred
- Minimum of 8+ years of pharmaceutical or biotech commercial experience, including HCP marketing experience in oncology
- Demonstrated experience supporting commercial launch activities and/or pre-launch activities
- Strong scientific acumen with demonstrated ability to interpret and translate complex oncology data into impactful, compliant HCP materials and field communications
- Proven project management skills with ability to manage multiple workstreams in a fast-paced, launch-focused environment
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence and lead through collaboration without direct authority
- Strong cross-functional experience with Marketing, Insights, Market Access, Medical, Legal, and Compliance
- Track record of operating with high integrity and maintaining compliance with regulatory, legal, and operational standards
- Ability to thrive in evolving, dynamic, and fast-paced pre-launch or launch-phase environments with shifting data and priorities
- Willingness to travel as business needs require
This is the pay for this position
Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor. The total compensation package for this position may also include bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable variable compensation.
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Summit Therapeutics Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and takes pride in creating and maintaining diverse environment. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training or promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, or related field
- MBA or advanced degree
- Minimum of 8+ years pharmaceutical or biotech commercial experience
- HCP marketing experience in oncology
- Experience supporting commercial launch and/or pre-launch activities
- Ability to interpret and translate complex oncology clinical data into HCP materials
- Proven project management skills and ability to manage multiple workstreams
- Excellent communication and influencing skills
- Strong cross-functional collaboration with Medical, Legal, Regulatory, Market Access, and Insights
- Track record of operating with high integrity and maintaining regulatory/compliance standards
- Willingness to travel as business needs require
What We Do
Summit Mission Statement: To build a viable, long-lasting health care organization that assumes full responsibility for designing, developing, trial execution and enrollment, regulatory submission and approval, as well as successful commercialization of patient, physician, caregiver, and societal-friendly medicinal therapy intended to: improve quality of life, increase potential duration of life, and resolve serious medical healthcare needs. To identify and control promising product candidates based on exceptional scientific development and administrational expertise, develop our products in a rapid, cost-efficient manner, and to engage commercialization and/or development partners when appropriate. We accomplish this by building a team of world class professional scientists and business administrators that apply their experience and knowledge to this mission. Team Summit exists to pose, strategize, and execute a path forward in medicinal therapeutic health care that places Summit in a well-deserved, top market share, leadership position. Team Summit assumes full responsibility for stimulating continuous expansion of knowledge, ability, capability, and well-being for all involved stakeholders and highly-valued shareholders. Summit was founded in 2003 and our shares are listed on the Nasdaq Global Market (symbol ‘SMMT’). We are headquartered in Miami, Florida, and we have additional offices in Palo Alto, California, Princeton, New Jersey, Oxford, UK, and Dublin, Ireland.
