Job Description
Our Marketing team are passionate about bringing our medicines and vaccines to our customers around the world. Through digital listening and patient analytics, we are able to understand our customers' needs and strive to provide solutions to meet them.
The US Public Health Strategy and Confidence marketing team is responsible for delivering impactful solutions to enhance and protect vaccination confidence, drive toward vaccination equity, and mitigate public health barriers to vaccination.
This role is responsible for the development of strategies and resources that will further enhance our Company's trusted relationship with stakeholders in the U.S. vaccines market and shape the transformation of the public health ecosystem to improve vaccine coverage, eliminate vaccination disparities, and achieve commercial objectives.
The Associate Director, Public Health Strategy, will operate under the umbrella of the broader Vaccines Portfolio Marketing Team to ensure alignment across key customer segments (Pharmacy, Payer, IDN, FQHC, Employer, and Public Health Stakeholders). The individual will closely support and lead collaborative efforts with several other teams including Global Medical Affairs, Policy, Contracting/Operations, Brand Teams, and the Field Sales organization.
Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

• Leverage available internal and externally available public health data and generate insights informing the development of public health stakeholder and leader engagement strategies
• Develop and execute marketing strategies: This includes identifying target consumer segments, evolving key messaging, and working with the extended team to match the right message with the right channel at the right time, to deliver the most effective results.
• Be strategy lead and subject matter expert for specific brand teams to inform, develop, and drive public health & confidence strategies that advance brand priorities.
• Lead strategic assessments of new stakeholders and identify appropriate above brand national, regional and/or local our Company engagement strategies.
• Identify and create public health, above brand resources aligned with identified opportunity spaces and priorities.
• Collaborate with external consultants, agencies, and other internal cross functional teams: Work closely with a wide range of agencies and partners to help build insights, develop and test different concepts with the plan of executing high impact strategies
• Role models and instills a culture of compliance focused on ethics and integrity in all we do.

Education Minimum Requirements:

• BA/BS or relevant experience within pharmaceutical or vaccine marketing areas etc.

Required Experience and Skills:

• Minimum of five (5) years of pharmaceutical or vaccine marketing experience, or other relevant experience.
• Strong critical and strategic thinking skills.
• Proactive leadership skills.
• Strong project management and problem-solving skills.
• Experience influencing without direct authority.
• Proven track record of managing tactical design, messaging, and execution.
• Experience managing creative agencies and/or other third-party vendors.
• Experience bringing promotional materials through legal and regulatory review.
• Proven ability to partner across a matrixed organization.
• Experience achieving efficiencies through effective organization and time management.
• Excellent oral, written, and presentation skills with a strong attention to detail.
• Creativity, enthusiasm, analytical acumen, and exceptional overall business insights

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• MPH
• 5+ years in a customer facing role or public sector/health experience.

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In accordance with Managers' Policy - Job Posting and Employee Placement, all employees subject to this policy are required to have a minimum of twelve (12) months of service in current position prior to applying for open positions.
If you have been offered a separation benefits package, but have not yet reached your separation date and are offered a position within the salary and geographical parameters as set forth in the Summary Plan Description (SPD) of your separationpackage, then you are no longer eligible for your separation benefits package. To discuss in more detail, please contact your HRBP or Talent Acquisition Advisor.
Employees working in roles that the Company determines require routine collaboration with external stakeholders, such as customer-facing commercial, or research-based roles, will be expected to comply not only with Company policy but also with policies established by such external stakeholders (for example, a requirement to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to access a facility or meet with stakeholders). Please understand that, as permitted by applicable law, if you have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 and an essential function of your job is to call on external stakeholders who require vaccination to enter their premises or engage in face-to-face meetings, then your employment may pose an undue burden to business operations, in which case you may not be offered employment, or your employment could be terminated. Please also note that, where permitted by applicable law, the Company reserves the right to require COVID-19 vaccinations for positions, such as in Global Employee Health, where the Company determines in its discretion that the nature of the role presents an increased risk of disease transmission.
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Expected salary range:
$130,960.00 - $206,200.00
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Employee Status:
Regular
Relocation:
No relocation
VISA Sponsorship:
No
Travel Requirements:
No Travel Required
Flexible Work Arrangements:
Hybrid, Remote Work
Shift:
1st - Day
Valid Driving License:
No
Hazardous Material(s):
N/A
Requisition ID:R266731