Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.

Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.

Target Resume Now

About the Role

This role offers a regional leadership opportunity at the forefront of strategic excellence within a leading global Animal Health organization. You will collaborate with key stakeholders and commercial leaders, providing critical insights to shape successful outcomes aligned with business objectives and operational requirements for strategic Companion Animal launches.

Responsibilities

• Develop regional and key market alignment in support of priority business drivers.
• Lead localized strategy and the regional roadmap process, encompassing all marketing and sales enablement.
• Activate a regional network of BUDs to ensure engagement, alignment, and execution of actions to achieve regional objectives.
• Organize follow-up and task forces with regional and global teams to ensure successful delivery of aligned objectives.
• Collaborate with the Digital enablement department and regional/local marketing teams to develop customer journeys and omnichannel operational strategies.
• Provide a broad set of adapted marketing assets to support local key launches.
• Partner with regions and local marketers to execute marketing content to differentiate brands.
• Communicate, collaborate, and align actions with key stakeholders within regional commercial organizations on core marketing launch strategies and address local launch and post-launch needs.
• Provide marketing team leadership to ensure successful implementation supporting product launches worldwide.
• Collaborate closely with customer marketing, commercial, digital, and sales enablement to provide impactful launch materials for market implementation.
• Understand platform and product performance, driving iterative change as necessary for measurable results.
• Orchestrate the Business steering process to track implementation of key launches.
• Collaborate with markets and regional management for new product demand requirements.
• Coordinate with supply chain to ensure alignment and prioritization of material availability for market launches.
• Contribute to global annual marketing communications plans and budget planning cycles.
• Collaborate and partner with regions, markets, and customers to gain insights.
• Share learnings with global, local teams, and internal partners.
• Understand and utilize key sources of information.
• Support the development of marketing capabilities within market organizations.

Requirements

• Minimum Bachelor’s Degree (business administration, marketing, communications, sales management, biology, animal science, or relevant area) from an accredited university.
• Minimum of 10-15 years of broad work experience in marketing (communications, brand, product, channel, operational) and related sales support activities.
• Strong life science, veterinary medicine, animal science, medical marketing, and business experience is highly preferred.
• Business Unit Director or Country Management leadership experience preferred.
• Successful track record to create and implement high-performing campaigns and tactical communication initiatives targeting medical professionals and consumers.
• Proven marketing experience of successful product launches with measured results and clear metrics.
• Demonstrated management of A&P budgets.
• Ability to work in a matrix organization and collaborate with people across multiple time zones, functions, and locations.
• Fluency in English is required.
• Multilingual in leading languages of the region is highly preferred.

Skills

• Digital marketing acumen and experience, especially in lead generation and conversion.
• Excellent ability to manage workflow with regional and local markets.
• Familiarity with the Animal Health industry or related industry, marketing, and commercial operations.
• Managing and executing product and launch communication plans.
• Monitoring performance metrics including revenue, pricing, forecasting, sales cycle, markets, and sales opportunity targets.
• People skills for developing and building strong internal and external relationships with key stakeholders.
• Ability to challenge and drive the organization towards project success.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
• Animal Science
• Budget Management
• Business Engagement
• Customer Marketing
• Digital Marketing
• Marketing
• Marketing Communications (MarCom)
• Performance Monitoring
• Personal Relationships
• Sales Management
• System Performance Monitoring
• Veterinary Medicine

Location

• Australia (Preferred)

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Full-time

Experience Level

• 10-15 years
• Regional Leadership

Education Level

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Master’s Degree
• MBA
• Advanced degree in marketing, sales management, communications, animal science, or veterinary medicine

About the Company

• Our Animal Health division is a trusted global leader in veterinary medicine, dedicated to the health and well-being of animals.
• We are a global team of professionals working together to make a positive difference in animal care and the world’s food supply.
• We offer one of our industry’s most innovative portfolios of products, services, and technologies that serve to prevent, treat, and control diseases across all major farm and companion animal species.
• 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 company CA launches and maximizes the value of in-line products.
• Our company has a very robust pipeline of new products and initiatives providing customer benefits and driving business growth.
• We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else.
• For more than a century, we have been 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.
• Our company is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and animal health products.
• Our success is backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.

Equal Opportunity

• 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.
• We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.