Executive Director - Global Scientific Marketing Affairs, Companion Animal

Job Description

The Companion Animal (CA) Business unit leads strategy development and execution across markets throughout the world. It drives global marketing strategies and activities to drive successful key CA launches and maximizes the value of in-line products. Our Company's Animal Health (AH) division has a very robust pipeline of new products and initiatives providing customer benefits and driving business growth.  Within the AH Companion Animal portfolio, Bravecto, Caninsulin, Nobivac, the Otic Portfolio, and Home Again are leaders within their respective categories.

The Executive Director is accountable to lead scientific and medical strategies across the company’s CA portfolio and within therapeutic categories, understand customer and competitive dynamics, influence medical policy, identify growth opportunities, define competitive advantages, and set a work standard of excellence by providing a best-in-class scientific/professional image within the veterinary industry. You will manage a team responsible for all aspects of medical activities including publications, conferences, and medical education planning, CME, as well as thought leader and key opinion leader management. The veterinary scientific marketing team provides actionable medical insights to marketing franchises and commercial teams to drive business performance. Providing excellence in scientific support activities to assist customers and capture the most value in alignment with division’s strategic initiatives is essential.

This is a new position requiring an experienced individual with vision, strong market, and commercial understanding, and outstanding leadership and influencing skills. You will set global technical affairs direction for all existing and future companion animal therapeutic, biologic, technology solutions, and services. 

The Executive Director – Global Scientific Marketing Affairs, Companion Animal, reports directly to the Associate Vice President of the Companion Animal Business Unit and will lead a core team of technical services directors with a scope of influence extending globally, and who influence extended teams consisting of 10 to 100 commercial and technical services team members across all geographies. As a core member of the Global Companion Animal Leadership Team, you will collaborate closely with global leadership setting strategic direction and will interact and influence at all levels of the company (including Executive Leadership) to ensure optimized and successful CA marketing strategy, competitive differentiation, and creating cross-portfolio value. The position will be based in the US.

Key Responsibilities
Strategic Medical Leadership:
•    Develop and implement a global Medical Affairs strategy across the lifecycle of our Company's Animal Health products from launch to maturity. 
•    Lead customer-centric thinking and craft scientific programs to build our company’s leadership position and advocacy among thought leaders, KOLs, veterinary academia, and veterinarians.
•    Support business expansion and strategic partnerships through medical leadership, including input into due diligence, in-licensing opportunities, and evaluation of external assets and commercial partners. 
•    Represent the medical voice of the company, and champion medical thought leadership to inspire the broader marketing organization

Team Leadership & Functional Growth:
•    Lead and develop a growing Medical Affairs team supporting therapeutic franchises and matrix relationships with Medical Directors in regions and key markets. 
•    Oversee and expand the Scientific Communications, Publications, Congresses as part of long-term medical capability development. 
•    Create a culture of continuous learning, accountability, and veterinary excellence. 

Scientific Exchange and Veterinary Education:
•    Represent the medical voice of the company, and champion medical thought leadership to inspire the broader marketing organization.
•    Collaborate and partner with veterinary medical organizations, veterinary schools, policy makers, researchers, and thought leaders to gain insights.
•    Maintain consistent communications throughout the companion animal veterinary medical affairs teams to ensure effective world-wide coordination.
•    Lead and oversee the development and execution of data generation plans, including Phase IV studies, real-world data, and investigator-initiated studies. 
•    Collaborate with Clinical Development to design post-marketing studies and led strategies to better understand therapeutic response and therapy differentiation. 
•    Drive strategic planning and delivery of strategically aligned scientific data to global congresses, publications, preceptorships. 
•    Develop an