Jr Brand Customer Manager Oncology

**Job Description**:
Our Italian Oncology team is a highly progressive and diverse team of forward-thinking individuals dedicated to delivering breakthrough innovations that extend and improve the lives of cancer patients. We work in an agile way, quickly adapting to a changing Oncology market environment with a strong focus on bringing innovation to our customers and ultimately to patients. We continuously launch the leading Oncology product in new indications, as well as other products in collaboration with our co-commercialization partners. We offer long-term career opportunities in a company that values innovation, efficiency, diversity, and respect. We are driven by our commitment to cancer patients.

Our ability to excel depends on the integrity, knowledge, imagination, skill, diversity, and teamwork of people like you. To this end, we strive to create an environment of mutual respect, encouragement, and teamwork. As part of our global team, you’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with talented and dedicated colleagues while developing and expanding your career.

**Purpose of the role**

We are now recruiting for a dynamic, passionate, and driven Jr Brand & Customer manager that will be critical to guarantee the ongoing success of one of the leading Immuno-Oncology indication. She/He will play a key role in our organization to support the uptake and expansion of the usage of innovative Immuno-Oncology treatment in Lung.

**Responsibilities include but will not be limited to the following key activities**:
Marketing Strategy:

- Support the continuous growth in the **metastatic setting**, deeply knowing the market environment and therapeutic area specificity, implement a marketing strategy in co-operation with all supporting function. Localize and customize global/regional plans to the country’s regulations/needs. Include innovative activities in the marketing plans.
- Plan promotional budget expense at best in order to maximize the investment, respecting product strategy and company’s guidelines.
- Manage the product business establishing strong relations with field force, supporting functions, and external stakeholders.

Internal relationships:

- Work with the cross-functional team for answers to specific queries relating to products within the therapy area, clearly communicating with passion their benefits whilst incorporating any feedback into the brand plan.
- Brief sales force and other internal parties on brand and promotional strategy and associated materials.
- Ensure all projects are in line with our European and global strategy and support the goals of other products in the franchise where applicable.
- Develop and implement promotional and non-promotional materials and programs
- Work with the team to develop the marketing strategy and plans for Italy.
- Work in collaboration with Medical, Brand Promotions, and Multi-Channel Communications to develop materials.

Customer Relationships:

- Understand customer perspective and develop solutions that best meet customer needs and help improve patient outcomes, including HCP and patient education initiatives as appropriate.

Business Operations:

- Proactively liaise and collaborate with various functions, including Salesforce, Customer Insight and Analytics, Business Services, External Affairs, Medical and Scientific Affairs, Finance, Supply Chain, and Regulatory Affairs, to ensure optimal alignment and effective implementation of business plans.
- Day-to-day management of the promotional budget to optimize effectiveness and efficiency in line with our company’s compliance standards.
- Conduct all activities in compliance with company policies and standards, and with the PMCPA Code of Practice and MHRA guidance.
- Proactively liaise and collaborate with regional and global colleagues.

**Your profile**
- University degree from accredited university.
- 1+ years of relevant experience working in a marketing pharmaceutical environment.
- High expertise in marketing oncology is strongly recommended
- Excellent communication and people skills to serve as key contact for regional groups and sales force interaction.
- Strong analytical and financial skills to synthesize local insights as input to the brand strategy and oversee the local brand forecast and budget
- Fluency in both Italian and English mandatory.
- Actively listen and seek to understand differing perspectives; work together to achieve the common goals of the team
- Digital Savviness

**Who we are **
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 inventing for life, 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.
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