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Director, U.S. Future Strategy - Respiratory BU

MSD
USA - Pennsylvania - North Wales (Upper Gwynedd), United States, United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 25 Nov 2025
💰 $294,400/yr($187,000/yr$294,400/yr)

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Job Description

Director, LCM & Future Strategy for Respiratory Disease BU

Our Respiratory team is dedicated to delivering breakthrough innovations that improve the lives of respiratory patients worldwide. Our team of forward-thinking individuals achieve this through an unwavering commitment to support accessibility to medicine, providing new therapeutic solutions, and collaborating with governments and payers to ensure that people who need medicines have access to them. Our focus is on innovation and launch execution excellence; we translate breakthrough science into innovative medicines that help people with cancer across the globe.

Reporting to the Associate Vice President Marketing Respiratory Business Unit, the Life Cycle Management and Future Strategy Leader role will be responsible for the design, optimization and evolution of the business model (e.g. mandated HUB, closed network specialty pharmacy) for Ohtuvayre. As part of this, the Director will ensure an integrated set of choices across the a) the Ohtuvayre business model and b) customer type (e.g. consumer, payer, hcp) now & in the future.  Lastly, the Director will partner with global marketing to provide U.S. input into future clinical studies & combinations as well as helping define the U.S. future potential for new products in the respiratory space.

Key Responsibilities of the role:

  • Define and optimize an integrated set of choices within the current Ohtuvayre business model. Help prioritize and align investment across customers, areas and levers within the current Ohtuvayre business model.

  • Partner with marketing team to ensure an integrated set of choices across customer type (e.g. consumer, payer, hcp) that considers all interdependencies across data systems, HUB, and specialty pharmacy network etc.

  • Evaluate and evolve the Ohtuvayre business model to help accelerate growth and optimize customer experience.

  • Partner with global marketing to provide U.S. input into future clinical studies & combinations and provide US POV on stage-gate and development plan decisions

  • Develop US business development commercial assessments in collaboration with payor marketing team to identify future commercial opportunity

  • Help define the U.S. future potential for new products in the respiratory space and represent the US Respiratory BU at various cross-functional new product planning meetings

  • Evaluate the competitive, access and policy landscape to help define future opportunities for the respiratory portfolio  

  • Support the budget cycle processes and ensure BU alignment in preparation for senior management review

Qualifications

Education Minimum Requirement: 

  • Required:  BA/BS

Required Experience and Skills:

  • Minimum of 8 years of experience in a Commercial function including Marketing, Consumer/Payer Access, Customer Experience, Strategic Planning

  • Pharmaceutical experience required – Respiratory experience preferred

  • Process-oriented with strong project management skills

  • Strategic and tactical planning skills

  • High level of collaborative skills and ability to work across different parts of the organization

  • High Legal/Compliance IQ

Preferred:

  • Prior experience in design and execution of patient support programs

  • Strong communication skills with ability to communicate/engage with senior leaders

Required Skills:

Accountability, Accountability, Adaptability, Budget Cycle, Budget Management, Business Development Marketing, Business Management, Business Strategies, Communication, Creativity, Customer Experience (CX), Customer Experience Improvement, Customer Experience Management, Digital Analytics, Digital Marketing, Identifying Sales Opportunities, Leadership, Market Access, Marketing Automation, Marketing Budget Management, Market Research, Omnichannel Marketing, People Leadership, Pharmaceutical Management, Pharmaceutical Sales Marketing {+ 4 more}

Preferred Skills:

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