At Gilead, we’re creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years, we’ve tackled diseases such as HIV, viral hepatitis, COVID-19 and cancer – working relentlessly to develop therapies that help improve lives and to ensure access to these therapies across the globe. We continue to fight against the world’s biggest health challenges, and our mission requires collaboration, determination and a relentless drive to make a difference.
Every member of Gilead’s team plays a critical role in the discovery and development of life-changing scientific innovations. Our employees are our greatest asset as we work to achieve our bold ambitions, and we’re looking for the next wave of passionate and ambitious people ready to make a direct impact.
We believe every employee deserves a great leader. People Leaders are the cornerstone to the employee experience at Gilead and Kite. As a people leader now or in the future, you are the key driver in evolving our culture and creating an environment where every employee feels included, developed and empowered to fulfil their aspirations. Join Gilead and help create possible, together.
Job Description
Marketing Director (m/f/d) LIVE Germany
Essential Functions:
Develops marketing strategy and initiatives ensuring cross-functional alignment and cohesion.
Tightly connects with the Sales team to ensure optimal execution of marketing campaigns and usage of field team’s insights for campaign development.
Leads the Marketing team and drives advancement of the unit’s marketing capabilities with a focus on development of competencies, state-of-the-art tools and processes.
Develops strong cross-functional narrative and communication plan, drives generation of relevant content per customer segment, and develops multi-channel design for optimal impact.
Generates relevant market insights, establishes adequate performance indicators and forecasts demand and portfolio performance, in close collaboration with Business Analytics.
Empowers Brand Teams in daily planning, decision making and execution of brand strategy and plans
Sets clear objectives for marketing initiatives, measures progress and success, and generates relevant learnings.
Ensures optimal allocation of marketing resources, both personnel and expenses, and diligently manages budget.
Ensures all marketing activities comply with all legal and regulatory requirements.
Engages to advance the care infrastructure together with external stakeholders, and in close collaboration with internal functional teams, such as Medical and Market Access.Steers coordinated opinion leader engagement and further evolves strategic partnerships.
Essential experience, knowledge, and skills:
Strong strategic thinking skills with ability to see the big picture and to formulate and execute strategy
Proven leadership skills with an ability to set a vision, to inspire, to champion change, drive innovative thinking and influence across functions
Has a track record of of motivating teams & create an environment of high performance, with personal Sales experience being a plus.
Requires relevant product launch experience in Rx market paired with substantial experience in driving brand performance at later stages of the product lifecycle.
Strong pharmaceutical market expertise, particularly with regards to health economy, access and reimbursement, product lifecycle, and applicable knowledge of relevant laws and regulations.
Must possess ability to foster close collaboration with Medical affairs at eye-level, hence requires ability to embrace science and meaningfully leverage Medical expertise for the design and implementation of strategies.
Strong interpersonal savviness with ability to establish robust professional relationships, create alignment, resolve conflict, inspire others.
Self-starter mentality, taking personal ownership. Ability to navigate through ambiguity, remain focused and prioritize carefully
Fluency in conversational German and English.
Able to travel up to 20% of time.
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What We Do
The way we see it, the impossible is not impossible. It’s simply what hasn’t been achieved yet. For more than 30 years, we’ve pursued it, chased it down, tackled it for answers and surrounded it for a way in. We have worked tirelessly to bring forward medicines for life-threatening diseases.
Creating Possible drives everything we do. It’s evident in our mission and core values. This is how we built a culture of excellence that is fueled by a passion for improving lives of people around the world.
For us, nothing is impossible – because of the people we work with, the communities we stand with and the partners we push forward with. Our ~12,000 employees band together through science, grit, compassion and courage to prove the impossible wrong.
At Gilead, the tangible results of your contributions are evident. Where every individual matters. Where all employees can enhance their skills through ongoing development. And where we start every day with one question: “What’s next?”
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