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About the Role
Shape the strategic direction of a full fertility portfolio in Japan, driving growth, inspiring a team, and making a tangible difference for patients and healthcare professionals.
Responsibilities
- Own the end to end marketing strategy for the Fertility Business Unit.
- Translate deep market and customer insight into integrated brand and portfolio plans that deliver sustainable commercial performance.
- Set the vision for how the portfolio is positioned across marketed brands, pipeline assets, and digital solutions.
- Lead disciplined execution in close partnership with Sales, Medical Affairs, Commercial Excellence, Market Access, Regulatory, Supply, and Finance.
- Represent Japan's strategic priorities in regional and global forums, actively influencing decisions that shape the broader business.
- Build a high performing, inclusive marketing team.
- Foster a culture of accountability and psychological safety.
- Develop talent with a long term perspective.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry.
- A minimum of 5 years in marketing.
- A minimum of 3 years leading and developing a team.
- Proven track record of developing and executing successful brand, portfolio, or customer strategies in a complex, regulated healthcare environment.
- Experience leading multiple brands or a full portfolio is a strong advantage.
- Skilled at synthesizing market, customer, competitive, and financial information to define clear strategic choices, translate them into executable plans, and manage performance with rigor.
- Effective people leader who coaches and develops direct reports, builds team capability, and creates a culture of accountability, collaboration, and inclusion.
- Communicate with clarity and confidence, and able to align and influence senior stakeholders across local, regional, and global organizations.
- Demonstrate high personal accountability, sound judgment, and resilience.
- Comfortable operating with ambiguity, prioritizing competing demands, and following through on decisions.
- Possess AI literacy: an understanding of how artificial intelligence technologies work, their practical applications in a commercial context, and the ethical considerations, including bias, fairness, privacy, and accountability, needed to make informed and responsible decisions.
- Fluent in Japanese.
- Business level English proficiency, with the ability to lead discussions, influence decisions, and present in an international business environment.
Skills
- Marketing strategy
- Brand and portfolio planning
- Commercial performance management
- Team leadership
- Talent development
- AI literacy
- Communication
- Stakeholder influence
Location
- Japan
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior leadership
- 10+ years pharmaceutical industry experience
- 5+ years marketing experience
- 3+ years team leadership experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Advanced degree in business, life sciences, marketing, or a related field is preferred
About the Company
- At Merck, we are driven by curiosity and are looking for people with diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe this diversity drives excellence and innovation, strengthening our leadership in science and technology.
- We are committed to creating access and opportunities for everyone to grow and develop at their own pace.
- Join us to build an inclusive and belonging culture that impacts millions of people and enables everyone to support the progress of humanity!
- Merck's solutions in healthcare, life science, and electronics are making people's lives richer.
- Merck is passionate about building a richer world where people, customers, patients, and the planet coexist.
- Our purpose in healthcare is to unite for patients, support the birth of life, improve quality of life, and sustain life.
- We develop medicines, intelligent devices, and innovative technologies in disease areas such as oncology, neurology, and fertility.
- Our teams work collaboratively across six continents with passion and relentless curiosity to help patients at every stage of life.