Associate Director, Marketing- Respiratory Field Execution

Job Description

Our Respiratory team is dedicated to delivering breakthrough innovations that improve the lives of respiratory patients worldwide. Our team of forward-thinking individuals achieve this through an unwavering commitment to support accessibility to medicine providing new therapeutic solutions and collaborating with governments and payers to ensure that people who need medicines have access to them. Our focus is on innovation and launch execution excellence; we translate breakthrough science into innovative medicines that help people with cancer across the globe.

The Respiratory Field Execution and Customer Engagement role will play a critical leadership role in supporting the continued commercial success of our newly acquired COPD asset. This individual will be responsible for aligning sales execution with marketing strategy in collaboration with multiple internal stakeholders including the brand team field sales leadership customer marketing CEI integration team and learning and addition this individual will work closely with the marketing team to develop or optimize digital resources used by our customer-facing teams.

Key responsibilities include :

Strategic planning and coordination of the national sales meetings and webcasts in collaboration with marketing & sales leadership

Partner with sales leadership in all aspects of preparation planning and ongoing

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Lead field related touchpoint such as field advisory boards to collect insights and ensure feedback loop with headquarters

Leverage customer journey insights and engagement data to maximize execution

Lead field-based segmentation and planning for targeting KPI monitoring tactical plan development and communications

Collaborate closely with brand strategy points to develop / optimize resources used for our customer-facing teams

Leverage new commercial capabilities to enhance customer engagement through tools such as Next Best Engagement (NBE)

Partner with Learning & Development to lead the sales training

Monitor sales performance KPI metrics in partnership with sales ops and data teams

Partner with compliance to provide clear executional guidance to sales

Collaborate with other members of the marketing team to refine ways of working guidance across field teams and identify new brand opportunities

Lead field communication - bulletins surveys etc.

Required Knowledge and Skills :

Bachelors degree or equivalent (BA / BS)

Minimum of 5 years of experience in marketing marketing / field support or sales management role

Customer-orientation results-driven focus on teamwork and collaboration

Works effectively in fast paced and time-constrained situations

Proven ability to drive execution and excellent communication skills

Demonstrated understanding of HQ systems and process e.g. PromoMats CORAL Veeva CRM

Preferred Knowledge :

Ability to leverage data analytics and / or customer and market insights to make business strategy decisions that impact launch choices

Strong written / verbal communication skills as demonstrated through knowledge in strategy & marketing business case communication sales interface direct customer engagement and / or sales presentations

Influencing without direct authority navigating complex or matrix organizations and working successfully with cross-functional teams

Demonstrated ability to create solutions that drive value for our customers incorporating innovative approaches where relevant

Demonstrates a flexible growth mindset & comfortable in whitespace

Working knowledge of an agile environment with scrum principles

Required Skills :

Adaptability Adaptability Brand Management Brand Strategy Business Relationship Management (BRM) Business Strategies Communication Content Creation Creativity Cross-Functional Leadership Customer Engagement Customer Insights Customer Marketing Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Data Analytics Digital Consumer Engagement Digital Marketing Marketing Marketing Strategies Market Research Market Segmentation Omnichannel Marketing Oral Communications Product Launches Product Management 5 more

Preferred Skills :

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The salary range for this role is

$139600.00 - $219700.00

This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employees position within the salary range will be based on several factors including but not limited to relevant education qualifications certifications experience skills geographic location government requirements and business or organizational needs.

The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive if applicable.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits. Available benefits include medical dental vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family) retirement benefits including 401(k) paid holidays vacation and compassionate and sick days. More information about benefits is available at can apply for this role through (or via the Workday Jobs Hub if you are a current employee). The application deadline for this position is stated on this posting.

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Employee Status : Regular

Relocation : No relocation

VISA Sponsorship : No

Travel Requirements :

25%

Flexible Work Arrangements :

Hybrid

Shift : 1st - Day

Valid Driving License :

No

Hazardous Material(s) :

N / a

Job Posting End Date :

11 / 20 / 2025

• A job posting is effective until 11 : 59 : 59PM on the day BEFORE the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date.

Required Experience :

Director

Key Skills

Digital Marketing,B2B Sales,Marketing,Pardot,Marketing Automation,Customer Segmentation,HubSpot,Multichannel Marketing,Market Research,Affiliate Marketing,Social Media Management,Lead Generation

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Monthly Salary Salary : 139600 - 219700