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National Thought Leader Marketer Uro-Oncology

Ferring Pharmaceuticals

Ferring Pharmaceuticals

Marketing & Communications
Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ, USA
Posted on Nov 20, 2024

Job Description:

As a privately-owned, biopharmaceutical company, Ferring pioneers and delivers life-changing therapies that help people build families and live better lives. Our independence helps us cultivate an entrepreneurial spirit and long-term perspective that enables us to achieve growth and scale, while remaining agile and true to our ‘people first’ philosophy. Built on a 70-year plus commitment to science and research, Ferring is relentless in its pursuit of science that drives powerful discoveries and therapies to help people build families, stay healthy, and stand up to the world’s oldest enemy: disease.

Ferring is on a mission to transform the treatment of bladder cancer with a novel, first-in-class intravesical gene therapy that provides patients with an alternative to bladder removal surgery. Our Uro-Oncology team is growing with a variety of rewarding opportunities in commercial, medical affairs and technical operations. If you are energized by the prospect of bringing the benefits of cutting-edge science to meet the needs of patients, we may have the perfect role for you.

We are seeking an experienced marketer/thought leader liaison to join Ferring’s Uro-Oncology team. This role will be integral in creating and executing engagement planning and execution for the brand across various stakeholders. This individual will drive overall national strategic planning with external engagement with key customers including HCP’s, and Mid-levels and Strategic Accounts and partner with field teams and home office colleagues for execution to achieve a successful first-in-class launch in the non-muscle invasive bladder cancer space. In this role, the Senior Manager will be responsible for generating insights, shaping, and implementing market development initiatives.

This is your opportunity to play an important role in making available to patients a novel product that has the potential to revolutionize the treatment of bladder cancer!

Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for leading, developing and pulling through an integrated key customer strategy, engagement and execution plans in support of the brand
  • Ensure comprehensive approach to identification and monitoring of key thought leaders and strategic accounts and ensure appropriate commercial resources coordinated and deployed.
  • Oversee integrated thought leader engagement, speaker’s bureau strategy and peer to peer programing
  • Develop and implement an integrated National commercial advisory board plan to inform brand strategies.
  • Develop and lead congress and convention strategy and execution; collaborate with US Medical Affairs
  • Possess strong leadership, scientific and business acumen and ability to manage multiple priorities and timelines

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree ; MBA preferred.
  • 5+ years experience with relevant pharmaceutical industry required.
  • Experience working with Urologists strongly preferred
  • Additional experience in marketing strategy, marketing services, marketing research, society engagement, brand planning, professional education, advertising strongly preferred.
  • Proven success in Oncology or Urology preferred
  • Familiarity with promotional review process preferred.
  • Firm knowledge of marketing principles and theory required.
  • Successful launch experience preferred.
  • Market shaping experience preferred.
  • Strong analytical skills required.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills required.
  • Excellent presentation skills required.
  • Demonstrated success in the area of strategic product management.
  • Ability to travel frequently (35-50%).

Ferring + you

At Ferring, we offer competitive total compensation along with an exceptional range of flexible benefits, personal support and tailored learning and development opportunities all designed to help you realize your full potential both in life and at work. From working hours that respect your lifestyle, a culture that is welcoming and equitable, and the chance to work with the industry’s most impressive people, these are just some of the ways we live our "People First" philosophy.

Our Compensation and Benefits

At Ferring, base salary is one part of our competitive total compensation and benefits package and is determined using a salary range. The base salary range for this role is $103,550 to $188,000, which is the reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount paid may differ based on non-discriminatory factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, education and primary work location. [For sales employees] Additional compensation for this role will be provided based on competitive annual incentive compensation targets in the form of sales commissions - payouts are based on individual and geography/company performance.

Benefits for this role include: comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with a premium differential, inverse to base salary, to be paid by employees; a 401k plan and company match; short and long-term disability coverage; basic life insurance; wellness benefits; reimbursement for certain tuition expenses; sick time frontloaded yearly of 40 hours, or higher if state or local law requires; vacation time for full time employees to accrue between 112.5 and 150 hours yearly in the first four (4) years of employment, and additional accruals starting in the fifth (5th) year of employment; and 12 to 13 paid holidays per year. We are proud to offer 26 weeks of paid parental leave, learn more about the parental leave offering in our benefits package here. For roles that are not field-based, Ferring has a policy that allows employees to work up to two days from home and three at a Ferring site, weekly.

Ferring is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local laws.

Join our team and your voice will be heard, and your contributions will be valued. If you love to come up with new ways to make a positive difference and see them through, you will fit right in.

We are proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer (including Disability/Protected Veterans). We maintain a drug-free workplace.

Location:

Parsippany, New Jersey