Junior Brand & Customer Manager Oncology

Job Description

Do you want to create brand value at a high level and play a key role? Do you enjoy working in an international environment and did you always want to work in a company where your work can have a real impact on people’s lives? We would like to meet you!

We have an exciting opportunity as a Junior Brand & Customer Manager Oncology.

Purpose of the role

The Junior Brand & Customer Manager (Jnr BCM) is an integral part of the Oncology Marketing Team, contributing to the strategies and marketing efforts for both new and existing indications within the oncology portfolio. In this developmental role, the Jnr BCM will collaborate with various teams and partners across different indications, lines, and markets, fostering a comprehensive approach to drive commercial success.
As a key member of the Oncology Marketing Team, your primary responsibility will be to support the development and implementation of tactical marketing plans for selected indications. By doing so, you will play a crucial role in achieving the commercial objectives of the organization. This entails working closely with the marketing teams within our division and regionally, ensuring alignment and synergy in the commercialization strategies.
While the BCM will provide supervision, you will report directly to the Franchise Lead, enabling you to gain valuable insights and guidance from experienced professionals in the field. This collaborative structure ensures that you will have the necessary support and resources to succeed in your role.

Welcome in our team

Our Oncology team is dedicated to delivering breakthrough innovations that extend and improve the lives of cancer 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.

Main responsibilities

Key accountability is to customize and implement, through effective leadership and decisive action, the approved global and regional strategies and commercialization plans for both existing and new indications, thus driving successful outcomes and market growth.

• Contributing to the preparation, monitoring, tracking, implementation of the marketing plans for existing and new indications. Leveraging digital marketing capabilities and customer experimentation.

• Develop materials based on global or regional material for a personalized selection of customers by segment priorities.
• Contribute to the asset tracking and management of local promotional budgets.
• Contribute to the monitoring and tracking sales trends national and local initiatives.
• Contribute to the development of a stakeholder strategy and stakeholder plans, including innovative value-added propositions.
• Build, maintain, and deepen long-term relationships with key stakeholders / customers by maintaining close contact and cooperation with other relevant departments, establishing a high degree of credibility with external and internal stakeholders.
• Taking the lead on monitoring marketing activities, coordination of data collection and interpretation, and preparation of the results for informed decision making.
• Leveraging an omni-channel approach to meet the changing customer needs for new ways of consuming content.
• Ensuring close monitoring of team budget and resource allocation.

Your profile

• Bachelor’s degree (minimum requirement)
• You have experience and strong affinity with digital marketing and customer experimentation.
• You have strong communicative skills, to create and carry out action plans in matrix cross-functional team structures.
• You exhibit strong leadership, problem solving, project planning, teamwork, analytical, and written/verbal communication skills.
• You should also be willing to travel within the region and work cross-culturally.
• Fluent in Dutch and English.

What we offer

We welcome you to a truly global, dynamic and challenging environment with great opportunities for personal development. Our benefits are very competitive, and the summary below will give you an idea of what you can expect.

• Competitive salary and a 3% year-end bonus.
• 35,5 days of leave.
• Attractive collective health care insurance package.
• Solid Pension Plan.
• Incentive Plan.
• Travel allowance for commuting.
• Numerous training, coaching and e-learning modules for long term job opportunities and development.

Who we are …  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. 

What we look for …  Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

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.

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

No relocation

VISA Sponsorship:

No

Travel Requirements:

10%

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Flex Time, Remote Work, Work Week

Shift:

Valid Driving License:

Yes

Hazardous Material(s):

Requisition ID:R271534