Product Marketing Manager (Infectious Disease/Pharma/Launch/Brand)

100% onsite.

Potential to travel (could be some international travel).

• Looking for Hepatitis specific experience to assist team in the technical side of things.
• Looking for someone who knows about the disease, how it lives in the body, interactions with other diseases, etc.
• Key in connecting with R&D, medical affairs, finance, market access, regional teams, and global stakeholders.
• Manager's BG is no on pharmaceutical side and is more generalist, so she is wanting this person to be their point person to help on the technical side of things.
• BA in health sciences.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• The Global Product Manager will be responsible to have a deep understanding of the disease and products and be able to communicate its benefits to internal and external audiences.
• The product manager acts in the marketing area and develops his/her work with a total focus on one or more products.
• The main function is to serve as a link between the various areas of the company regarding a product. These areas are regional global marketing, medical affairs, regulatory, scientific support, R&D and commercial.

Be the focal point for the disease, reporting to Global Marketing Director

• Develop product marketing strategies (pricing, communication, product launching)
• Follow and analyze market trends to position products and constant share with key stakeholders
• Create consistent positioning statements and messaging as source of material is to be used by the regional/local markets
• Analyze competition activities to know your products, mapping via SWAT analysis and their respective market share
• Develop campaigns to be deployed to the markets
• Craft compelling messages across the product portfolio and channels
• Deliver product training for internal and external audiences
• Support scientific literature analysis and its revision
• Build close connection and interaction with KOLs and key stakeholders in the region
• Work together with Medical Affairs on Advisory boards
• Support clinical studies related to NPIs
• Track product launches using relevant KPIs and feedback from existing and prospective customers
• Build strong connection with the regional teams, understanding their needs and sharing the strategy and delivering supporting materials
• Build strong connection with global team stakeholders, gathering information and guaranteeing strategic alignment and consequently business growth
• Coordinate the participation in events such as: congress, fairs, seminars as well as in the development of communication pieces
• Produce communication materials in coordination with agencies - banner, poster, presentations, folder, videos, websites content review, sales tool kit, VARs, docs of features / advantages / product benefits, FAQs, and websites content review
• Support Purchase orders process and payment

COMPETENCES

• High level of communication skills, change management, teamwork, customer focus, results orientation, commitment, leadership, strategic management.
• Ability to understand standard of care of key countries
• Ability to build value proposition of the brand
• Ability to prioritize activities and negotiate due dates
• Ability to anticipate potential issues and propose contingency plans
• Hands on and sense of urgency

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS | EDUCATION | EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree in health sciences related studies, pharma or biomedical. Specialization on infectious disease is desired
• Proven experience as a Product Marketing Manager, Brand Manager or similar role. Minimum 5 years’ experience in the area is required

Job Type: Contract

Salary: $50.00 - $58.00 per hour

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Lake Forest, IL 60045: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Education:

• Bachelor's (Preferred)

Experience:

• Develop product marketing strategies: 5 years (Preferred)
• pharma or medical device industry: 5 years (Preferred)
• product launch: 5 years (Preferred)
• Develop campaigns: 5 years (Preferred)
• Product Marketing Manager, Brand Manager: 5 years (Preferred)

Work Location: One location