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Job Description

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.

For our Swiss subsidiary in Global Human Health based in Lucerne we are currently looking for a Brand & Customer Manager, Diabetes (m/f/d) who will perform a critical role in the Diabetes cross-functional Scrum team and will be responsible for analysing customer and field insights into strategic plans and building action plans accordingly (full-time, indefinite).

As product owner, your primary responsibility will be to plan and ensure the execution of the marketing strategy. The focus will be to grow the existing product families and ensure the planning and execution of the brand strategy.

On this position you will play an important role in the cocreation of regional digital campaigns as part of the initiative “Diabetes Digital First”. Besides the marketing strategy, you will be responsible for additional crucial tasks such as demand plan, financial forecasting and business review presentations. On this role you will work together with governmental institutions, health authorities and representatives from cantons and you will lead all aspects of market building and brand development to maintain and optimize our positions in the different markets. Your role will also include leading and leveraging the cross-functional team resources. Together with the team you will execute key activities by using agile marketing principles.

THE PRIMARY ACTIVITIES INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:

• Develop a high understanding of the customers and stakeholders related to the Diabetes Portfolio: collect and collate customers’ needs and understand competitive environment. Develop and implement stakeholder plans.


• Analyze the local market trends and identify commercial opportunities for our brands based on customers’ insights.


• Plan and implement the Diabetes marketing strategy, including the adaptation of global/regional plans to country’s regulations/needs.


• Provide innovation through testing of new marketing channels, new types of content and new digital channel execution strategies as innovative ways of interacting with the customers. Develop omnichannel marketing strategies.


• As a Product Owner, coordinate key strategic activities within the cross functional team.


• Elaborate sales forecast in line with product lifecycle, market environment and product strategy.


• Plan promotional budget expenses at best in order to maximize investments, respecting product strategy and company’s guidelines.


• Proactively liaise and collaborate with global internal stakeholders, such as regulatory affairs to ensure timely label updates supporting the product strategy.

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.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master's Degree in Economics, Natural Sciences or Health Sciences. PhD would be preferred.


• Swiss Pharmaceutical Market Experience is necessary.


• 2 to 5 years relevant business experience, ideally in the development of Marketing Plans for Rx pharmaceutical products, as well as forecasting.


• Digital multichannel or omnichannel marketing experience. Experience in working with digital channels for patients and Health Care Professionals, including content creation.


• Experience in Diabetes sales or marketing is advantageous.


• Ideally, experience working with agile methodologies (SCRUM, Design thinking, etc.). Certified Scrum Product Owner is a plus.


• Proficient German and English knowledge, both written and spoken. French knowledge is advantageous.


• Strong communication & collaborative skills and the ability to effectively work both independently and within a team environment.


• Good presentation skills.


• Business and financial acumen; ability to think strategically and to solve complex problems.


• Self-motivated driver, able to work autonomously.


• Demonstrates initiative, growth mindset.

Our company will inspire you to aim high with your ambition…where you can build bridges all over the world…where you can power ideas that drive change…and where you will act fast and drive results for our customers and patients. Power your future and join our team!

THE COMPANY…

Our company has had a presence in Switzerland since 1963. With a regional office and manufacturing/packaging facility, Lucerne is considered the center of operations. Approximately 1,000 people work collaboratively at the four Lucerne locations (Weystrasse, Citybay, Schachen and Kriens). A fifth location has been recently established in Zurich, aimed at accelerating the development and commercialization of many of our company’s medicines and vaccines, which supports our mission to save and improve lives around the world. The new location has a target date of 2021 for operational readiness.

We are proud to be certified as a “Top Employer Switzerland” and “Top Employer Europe” showing the company’s commitment to our employees and the community around us.

The Switzerland Head Office of our company’s Swiss Subsidiary is based in Lucerne's city centre. Located in the heart of the city, employees work collaboratively across many departments including commercial, market access, medical affairs, clinical research, regulatory affairs, and policy & communications.

WHO WE ARE …

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

WHAT WE LOOK FOR …

In a world of rapid innovation, we seek brave Inventors who want to make an Impact in all aspects of our business, enabling breakthroughs that will affect generations to come. We encourage you to bring your disruptive thinking, collaborative spirit and diverse perspective to our organization. Together we will continue Inventing For Life, Impacting Lives while Inspiring Your Career Growth.

INVENT.

IMPACT.

INSPIRE.

We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively for the common good. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.

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Regular

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Domestic

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Number of Openings:

1

Requisition ID:R93698