Associate Director, Obexelimab Marketing Lead

Posted:
11/5/2024, 4:00:00 PM

Location(s):
Chiyoda, Japan

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Growth & Marketing

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

Working with Us
Challenging. Meaningful. Life-changing. Those aren’t words that are usually associated with a job. But working at Bristol Myers Squibb is anything but usual. Here, uniquely interesting work happens every day, in every department. From optimizing a production line to the latest breakthroughs in cell therapy, this is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it. You’ll get the chance to grow and thrive through opportunities uncommon in scale and scope, alongside high-achieving teams rich in diversity. Take your career farther than you thought possible.

Bristol Myers Squibb recognizes the importance of balance and flexibility in our work environment. We offer a wide variety of competitive benefits, services and programs that provide our employees with the resources to pursue their goals, both at work and in their personal lives. Read more: careers.bms.com/working-with-us.

Position Summary

Marketing Lead of Obexelimb Marketing is a core member of the Obexelimab brand team, responsible for developing launch strategies/ marketing strategies for both HCPs and patients and ensuring tactical execution to achieve brand objectives for Obexelimab.

The Marketing Lead owns the end-to-end HCP and patient journey and strategy that ladders into overarching brand strategy. This individual maintains a deep understanding of customer needs and leverages insights and analytics to build an omnichannel strategy. The Marketing Lead collaborates closely with cross-functional leaders (Medical, Access, BI&A) to ensure strong strategic planning and execution.

Additionally, as this asset is the company’s first APAC-only asset, the Marketing Lead is to assume the role of a WW Brand Marketing Lead, working closely with the alliance company to develop an aligned brand strategy and support other APAC countries in making business decision and developing strategies

This individual reports to the Brand lead of Immunology TA and leads a team of marketers to ensure growth of the brand and best meet customer needs.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy Development

  • Builds and delivers the brand strategy and plan that drives success and growth of the brands
  • Fosters collaborative working relationships with the Brand lead, other marketing leads and cross-functional brand team members to ensure creation of a unified brand strategy
  • Integrates insights from customer analytics models and market research to develop HCP/patient customer journey, customer segments and create tailored omnichannel strategies, optimizing channel selection
  • Leverage omnichannel capabilities and rapid, personalized content creation processes to enhance customer experience and engagement
  • Utilizes engagement and performance feedback to improve customer engagement strategies and campaigns
  • Defines success for the customer (HCP/Patient) segment​

Execution Excellence

  • Leads team of Marketing to deliver on Brand objectives​
  • Manage national TLs to plan and execute national seminars and web-seminar to deliver Dr-to-Dr message.
  • ​Plans and delivers content across personal and non-personal channels
  • Work with analytics and market research teams to define and implement performance metrics
  • Works closely with other APAC countries

Required Qualifications & Experience

  • Prior marketing experience with a track record of leading and executing customer-focused marketing strategies
  • Experience in immunology/rheumatology preferred.
  • Knowledge of HCP customer journeys, patient customer journeys, preferences, and needs​
  • Fluency in interpreting analytical models and ability to translate analytics from BI&A teams into actionable strategies​
  • Familiarity with omnichannel capabilities strategy
  • Ability to navigate and build relationships across teams and Functions (e.g., Medical, Access, Sales)​
  • Demonstrated leadership experience and ability to lead teams​

Key competencies desired

Customer oriented mindset

  • Adopts a customer-focused mindset
  • Deeply understands HCP journey, patient journey, and experiences
  • Understands HCP segments and attitudes
  • Understands customer segments and attitudes
  • Demonstrates ability to deliver on customer needs and optimize customer experience
  • Exhibits genuine care for customers

Scientific expertise in cancer treatment

  • Has deep knowledge of specialty care  (immunology/ rheumatology preferred), clinical landscape
  • Understands regulatory guidelines and landscape
  • Has a strong learning mindset and passion for science

Commercial excellence

  • Has in depth knowledge and experience with key Commercial processes and capabilities (customer journey development, strategy development, brand planning, channel optimization, tactical execution, content development, content planning & execution, MLR review)
  • Has experience creating Omnichannel Strategies
  • Applies best of Commercial capabilities to customer engagement
  • Adopts evolving technology to be able to provide better user experience for customers
  • Identifies industry trends and improves Commercial capabilities

Analytical fluency

  • Demonstrates strong analytical skills and ability to interpret insights from data and analytics
  • Drives sophisticated analytics, along with BI&A partner to understand customer segments and inform customer journeys
  • Partners with BI&A to understand omnichannel preferences for different customer segments
    • Maintains a robust set of metrics / KPIs in partnership with Business Insights and Analytics (BI&A) to track omnichannel campaign performance and ensure a feedback loop to inform on-going omnichannel strategies

Teamwork/agile

  • Fosters a collaborative environment and creates strong rapport to effectively partner with cross-functional stakeholders
  • Demonstrates ability to work in a flexible and agile in operating model, adapting to changing brand priorities
  • Embraces changes and leads on new ways of working
  • Holds integrity and good judgment in navigating compliance in accordance with BMS policies and procedures

Leadership/ enterprise mindset

  • Demonstrates an ability to influence matrix organization and problem-solving mentality
  • Demonstrates an ownership mindset of brand, across all functions and customer types
  • Demonstrates ability to drive long term brand strategy
  • Invests in developing talent

Why You Should Apply

Around the world, we are passionate about impacting the lives of patients with serious diseases. Empowered to apply our individual talents and diverse perspectives in an inclusive culture, our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion, and integrity bring out our colleagues’ highest potential.

Bristol Myers Squibb recognizes the importance of balance and flexibility in our work environment. We offer a wide variety of competitive benefits, services and programs that provide our employees with the resources to pursue their goals, both at work and in their personal lives.

Physical presence at the BMS worksite or physical presence in the field is an essential job function of this role which the Company deems critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, employee well-being and engagement, and enhances the Company culture.

If you come across a role that intrigues you but doesn’t perfectly line up with your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be one step away from work that will transform your life and career.

Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers
With a single vision as inspiring as “Transforming patients’ lives through science™ ”, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in an inclusive culture, promoting diversity in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.

On-site Protocol

BMS has a diverse occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:

Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.

BMS is dedicated to ensuring that people with disabilities can excel through a transparent recruitment process, reasonable workplace accommodations/adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Applicants can request a reasonable workplace accommodation/adjustment prior to accepting a job offer. If you require reasonable accommodations/adjustments in completing this application, or in any part of the recruitment process, direct your inquiries to [email protected]. Visit careers.bms.com/eeo-accessibility to access our complete Equal Employment Opportunity statement.

BMS cares about your well-being and the well-being of our staff, customers, patients, and communities. As a result, the Company strongly recommends that all employees be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 and keep up to date with Covid-19 boosters.

BMS will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, pursuant to applicable laws in your area.

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Bristol Myers Squibb

Website: https://bms.com/

Headquarter Location: New York, New York, United States

Employee Count: 10001+

Year Founded: 1887

IPO Status: Public

Last Funding Type: Post-IPO Debt

Industries: Biotechnology ⋅ Health Care ⋅ Medical ⋅ Pharmaceutical ⋅ Precision Medicine