
Associate Director US Oncology Marketing HCP Strategy Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma
Merck
Summary
Our Oncology team is dedicated to delivering breakthrough innovations that extend and improve the lives of people with cancer worldwide. The Associate Director, HCP Strategy for advanced renal cell carcinoma (AdvRCC) will lead the U.S. healthcare professional strategy for the AdvRCC business, defining strategic choices, customer priorities, and integrated engagement approach to drive sustained growth.
Job description
Primary Responsibilities
HCP and Brand Strategy Leadership
- Lead development and evolution of the U.S. HCP strategy for AdvRCC, ensuring alignment with brand, portfolio, and enterprise priorities.
- Define customer objectives, strategic imperatives, positioning, messaging priorities, and integrated engagement strategies.
- Translate clinical, customer, market, and performance insights into clear strategic choices and actionable commercial plans.
- Anticipate shifts in the treatment landscape and proactively evolve strategy.
- Provide strategic direction to cross-functional and agency partners.
AdvRCC Portfolio and Alliance Collaboration
- Partner closely with the alliance team and stakeholders to align HCP strategy, customer engagement, and execution.
- Identify portfolio opportunities, strategic interdependencies, and potential trade-offs.
- Build durable partnerships through transparent communication and thoughtful negotiation.
- Ensure coherent portfolio narratives and coordinated execution across channels.
Market Research, Segmentation, and Competitive Strategy
- Lead market research to uncover HCP needs, prescribing drivers, barriers, and emerging opportunities.
- Lead development, refinement, and application of customer segmentation.
- Assess market dynamics, treatment patterns, customer behavior, and competitive activity.
- Build and maintain a forward-looking view of the market landscape.
- Convert research and analytics into clear implications and strategic recommendations.
Omnichannel and Digital Marketing Leadership
- Partner with digital, media, analytics, and customer experience teams to design connected journeys.
- Champion test-and-learn approaches to optimize content, channel mix, sequencing, and investment decisions.
- Ensure HCP experiences are customer-centered and executed with operational and compliance excellence.
Business Management, Measurement, and Optimization
- Define key performance indicators and measurement plans.
- Partner with analytics and finance to monitor performance and recommend actions.
- Lead annual and long-range planning inputs for the AdvRCC HCP business.
- Manage marketing investments by making disciplined trade-offs.
- Ensure promotional activities meet applicable legal, regulatory, and compliance requirements.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree required; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
- 5+ years of progressive experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, or a related industry.
- Demonstrated experience in HCP marketing, brand strategy, market development, digital marketing, customer engagement, or related commercial roles.
- Proven ability to translate market research, customer insights, segmentation, competitive intelligence, and analytics into actionable strategies.
- Demonstrated success leading complex cross-functional work and influencing senior stakeholders in a matrixed environment.
- Exceptional strategic thinking, planning, communication, collaboration, negotiation, marketing, and business acumen.
- Strong executive communication and presentation skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Oncology experience; renal cell carcinoma or genitourinary oncology experience preferred.
- Experience supporting an in-market brand, indication expansion, launch preparation, or lifecycle strategy.
- Experience working within an alliance or co-commercialization model.
- Experience leading HCP segmentation, market research, competitive analysis, and omnichannel strategy.
- Understanding of oncology customer dynamics, treatment decision-making, and the evolving AdvRCC landscape.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required
- 5+ years of progressive experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, or a related industry
- Demonstrated experience in HCP marketing, brand strategy, market development, digital marketing, customer engagement, or related commercial roles
- Proven ability to translate market research, customer insights, segmentation, competitive intelligence, and analytics into actionable strategies
- Demonstrated success leading complex cross-functional work and influencing senior stakeholders in a matrixed environment
- Exceptional strategic thinking, planning, communication, collaboration, negotiation, marketing, and business acumen
- Strong executive communication and presentation skills
Benefits
- Medical, Dental & Vision
- 401(k) Retirement Benefits
- Paid Holidays
- Vacation & Sick Days
- Annual Bonus
- Long-Term Incentive
Company overview
Merck & Co., Inc., known as Merck in the United States and Canada and MSD (Merck Sharp & Dohme) internationally, is a premier American multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Rahway, New Jersey. Founded in 1891 as the U.S. subsidiary of the German Merck Group, the company became independent following World War I and has since grown into one of the world's largest biomedical companies, ranking fourth globally by revenue. Merck operates across three core business segments: pharmaceuticals, vaccines, and animal health products. The company is renowned for its groundbreaking research and development, having brought numerous life-saving medicines to market including Keytruda (pembrolizumab), a leading immunotherapy for cancer treatment that generated $29.5 billion in 2024 revenue, and Gardasil, a revolutionary HPV vaccine. With approximately 75,000 employees worldwide, Merck maintains a robust pipeline of innovative therapies focused on oncology, vaccines, hospital acute care, cardiology, neuroscience, virology, immunology, and diabetes. The company invests heavily in R&D, spending $17.9 billion in 2024 alone, demonstrating its commitment to advancing scientific discovery. Merck's legacy spans over 130 years of bringing hope to humanity through important medicines and vaccines, operating with a purpose to use leading-edge science to save and improve lives globally while fostering an inclusive workforce and responsible business practices.