Director - Scientific Marketing Affairs, Dermatology

Job Description

Director - Scientific Marketing Affairs, Dermatology

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 has a very robust pipeline of new products and initiatives providing customer benefits and driving business growth.
 

Within our company's Animal Health Companion Animal portfolio, Bravecto, Caninsulin, Nobivac, the Otic Portfolio, and Home Again are leaders within their respective categories.

The Director is responsible for setting medical strategy for the Global CA Dermatology portfolio for all aspects of medical marketing activity including publications, conferences, and medical education planning, as well as thought leader and key opinion leader engagement. This position is part of the medical affairs and veterinary relations team which 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 a veterinarian with vision, strong market and commercial understanding, and outstanding presentation and influencing skills. You will be responsible for helping to shape medical policy that impacts our company’s offerings, delivers best-in-class medical education, develops worldwide key thought leader support, and provides marketing technical support for our company's Animal Health Global Companion Animal business unit. You will also have responsibility for influencing category growth, driving year over year sales growth, implementing the company’s global medical affairs strategy, and defining synergies between the company’s therapeutic portfolio. Further, in conjunction with Research and Development, you will influence the future pipeline direction utilizing your deep understanding of the needs and motivators that drive behavior of veterinarians, their clients, and patients.

This position reports directly to the Executive Director - CA Global Medical Affairs & Veterinary Relations of the Companion Animal Business Unit. You will be a key member of the technical services team with a scope of influence extending globally, leading and influencing extended teams consisting of 10 to 100 commercial and technical services team members across all geographies. Our Veterinary experts use their scientific background to provide technical expertise and education to our customers, sales, and marketing teams. With a deep knowledge of pharmacology and animal health, we engage scientific exchange with external experts & industry leaders ensuring the scientific value of our animal health portfolio is understood.
 

This position is an essential and prominent leadership position, will collaborate closely with global companion animal leadership setting strategic direction, and will interact and influence at all levels of the company (including Executive Leadership) to ensure optimized and successful CA new product marketing strategy and competitive differentiation.
 

Primary Activities:

Accountable to lead scientific and medical strategies for the launch of the company’s new dermatology products, understand customer and category dynamics, influence formulary decisions, 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.

• Key contributor to brand health and business revenues through collaboration with matrixed marketing, sales, regulatory and research and development teams. Responsible for strategic input to company’s product portfolio operating plans including KOL management and data generation through Phase IV and Outcomes Research studies to build value within brands and lead with science.

• Represent the medical voice of company’s products.

• Lead customer-centric thinking and craft scientific programs to establish our company's position among thought leaders, KOLs, veterinary academia, and veterinarians.

• Collaborate and partner with regions and markets to develop effective relationships with veterinary medical organizations, veterinary schools, policy makers, researchers, and thought leaders to educate them and gain insights.

• Ensure all technical services programs are successful, metrics-driven, and purposeful.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Marketing and Commercial Leadership, to drive business performance and set strategic direction.

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