Associate Director , Marketing

Associate Director Marketing, India

The opportunity would be to lead P&L of a Global vaccines brands & unleash its potential to protect people in India and drive initiatives to achieve marketing goals.

Develop strategic road map for Vaccine's portfolio franchise.

Based in Mumbai, named one of the Best Companies for Women in India by Avatar, 2020.

Join the premier biopharmaceutical company that has been in Asia Pacific for over 60 years.

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.

In this role, you will help our organization for planning and achieve marketing goals and sales targets for our products on a monthly basis through regular monitoring of the market trends and driving initiatives to support the plan.

What You Will Do:

• Plan and achieve marketing goals including profitability and sales targets for the existing brands/portfolio on a monthly basis through regular monitoring of the market trends, planning the short and long terms strategies and driving initiatives to support the plan.
• Development of strategic plans and operational marketing plan for all products in the vaccines franchise to provide a scientific, medical and commercial basis.
• Project Management: Identify and drive critical project that generate exponential growths
• Competitive intelligence - Monitor, analyze, and evaluate market trends, consumer behavior and competitor activity to identify market opportunities; adjust marketing strategy and plan to meet changing markets and competitive conditions.
• Ensure program implementation for existing brands and monitor implementation within the allocated budget.
• Build business cases and ensure approval of identified opportunities with new product launch.
• Conduct ongoing business and financial review of business development opportunities.
• Identify and develop list of external opportunities and analyze potential targets via active internal and external scouting activities.
• Optimize cross-functional support needed to ensure effective communication and implementation of BD objectives.
• Responsible for alliance management with strategic partner to achieve business goals.
• Development of consumer activation strategy and driving execution through social media.
• CFT collaboration to build and drive HCP advocacy strategy
• Responsible for portfolio P&L

What You Must Have:

To be successful in this role, you will have strong marketing skills as well as business capabilities

• At least 10-12 years of experience in sales & marketing, consumer marketing, OTC, digital marketing experience is strongly preferred.
• Pharmaceutical marketing experience will be desired
• Ability to mentor/support local teams in brand and customer marketing
• Analytical skills - ability to synthesize data/insights from local markets into recommendation/input to global brand strategy
• Financial management (e.g., brand budget, sales forecasts, etc.)
• Business acumen (e.g., knowledgeable in policies, practices, trends, technology)
• Influencing/persuasive skills (e.g., ability to put together strong business cases)
• Capability to energize and motivate a team to follow his/her direction (e.g., ability to ensure a cohesive, collaborative, high performance work team)
• Listening skills (e.g., practices attentive and active listening)
• Operational/execution skills (e.g., ability to get things implemented)
• Stakeholder management

Leadership Standards:

• Shape Strategy
• Focus on customers
• Act with candor and courage
• Make rapid, disciplined decisions
• Drive results

Our Human Health Division maintains a "patient first, profits later" ideology. The organization is comprised of sales, marketing, market access, digital analytics and commercial professionals who are passionate about their role in bringing our medicines to our customers worldwide