Brand Manager

**THE OPPORTUNITY**

Permanent Full-time role working with a trusted global leader

Opportunity for a Brand Manager to be based in Macquarie Park, Sydney

Our Marketing team are passionate about bringing our medicines and vaccines to our customers around the world. Through digital listening and patient analytics, we are able to understand our customers’ needs and strive to provide solutions to meet them.

**WHAT YOU WILL DO**
- Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:_

This role will be responsible for maximizing revenue of the Vaccines portfolio through the development and execution of effective brand strategies for the company vaccine portfolio and government relationships. Your role will require strength in strategy development, managing relationships, and strong communication.

**WHAT YOU MUST HAVE**

To be successful in this role, you will have:

- Bachelor’s degree in Biological and Medical Sciences, or equivalent knowledge experience is desirable
- Proven ability to plan and manage innovative/vaccine brands
- Key facilitator of strategic and operational decisions relating to therapeutic areas &/or multiple brands
- Proven ability to develop and communicate therapeutic area strategy based on integrated knowledge of cross-functional teams
- Strong financial knowledge to lead therapeutic area portfolio management
- Excellent analytical skills and proven ability to synthesize information from the internal and external environment to lead therapeutic area strategy
- Strong coaching and leadership skills applicable in a sales and marketing context
- Validated experience and knowledge of external customers including patients, prescribers, payers, providers
- Excellent downwards communication skills to attract, lead and motivate stakeholders and align them with global strategy and vision
- Excellent upwards communication skills to drive program excellence and engaging cross functional partners
- >3 years of experience in pharmaceutical industry
- Extensive knowledge of public health, NIP program and vaccines (desirable)
- Experience in strategic thinking and launch strategy
- Business Acumen
- Strategic and analytical thinking
- Ability to deal with decision making processes in complex organizations and generate collaboration and followership
- Entrepreneurial and proactive management skills and a "can do attitude” to manage a critical portfolio and stakeholder relationships
- High level of personal maturity and natural authority
- Committed to talent development and capability building for sustainable growth
- Emotional Intelligence
- Ability to lead without authority
- Ability to work collaboratively across a broad number of Key Stakeholders
- Ability to work within an internal and external compliance framework
- Resilience and Tenacity

**WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT**

Be part of the team growing the vaccines portfolio

Opportunity to launch new brands

Our Human Health Division maintains a “patient first, profits later” ideology. The organization is comprised of sales, marketing, market access, digital analytics and commercial professionals who are passionate about their role in bringing our medicines to our customers worldwide

**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.

**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

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**Number of Openings**:
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**Requisition ID**:R221744