Job Description
Senior Brand and Customer Manager Oncology (m/w/d)
Your responsibilities
- Overall responsibility for the supported products and indications, and representation towards internal and external stakeholders
- Responsibility for developing and implementing strategic product and indication plans, and deriving and steering relevant measures to achieve strategic and commercial goals
- Initiating and steering quantitative and qualitative market and customer analyses, and translating relevant insights into concrete strategic and operational recommendations
- Coordinating cross-functional collaboration within the indication team to develop and implement joint strategic priorities
- Developing and implementing target-group-specific omnichannel campaigns along relevant customer journeys and customer touchpoints
- Ongoing exchange and building of sustainable relationships with relevant customers and external stakeholders to successfully implement strategic product and indication goals
- Designing and implementing training and further education measures for the field force in close cooperation with relevant internal functions
- Responsibility for sales and revenue planning, performance analysis, and planning and steering of the marketing budget
- Developing and implementing central strategic and operational measures to prepare the launch of a new asset in prostate cancer, including positioning, target group segmentation and development of the go-to-market approach
- Collaborating with Medical, Market Access, Sales and other relevant functions to ensure organizational and commercial launch readiness
Qualifications
- Completed degree in business or natural sciences, or a comparable qualification
- Several years (min. 5 years) of experience in pharmaceutical marketing, ideally in oncology or a comparable specialty care environment
- Solid knowledge of oncology, ideally in prostate cancer
- Strong entrepreneurial thinking
- High level of initiative and implementation strength, and the ability to inspire others to pursue shared goals
- Excellent ability to prioritize and strong decision-making skills, including in a dynamic environment
- Strong strategic and analytical thinking, and the ability to analyze complex market and business situations and derive well-founded recommendations
- Excellent communication, moderation and presentation skills, and the ability to engage different stakeholders convincingly
- Strong confidence in handling budgets and market figures and analyses
- Strong project management experience, and the ability to interpret scientific data and study results and communicate them in an audience-appropriate way
- Several years of experience in successful collaboration in cross-functional teams and complex stakeholder environments
- Excellent German and English skills, spoken and written
- Very good PC skills
- Willingness to travel regularly
We are proud to be a company built on the values of our diverse, talented and committed employees. The fastest way to drive innovative developments forward is to bring different ideas together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to discuss their ideas objectively and tackle problems together. We see ourselves as an equal opportunity employer and are committed to promoting inclusive, diverse workplaces.
Severely disabled persons and those equated with them will be given preference when equally qualified.
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Required Skills:
Alliance Management, Customer-Focused, Data Analysis, Digital Marketing Management, Entrepreneurship, Marketing Campaign Development, Marketing Strategy Implementation, Market Research, Oncology Marketing, Personal Initiative, Product Launch Planning, Strategic Planning, Vendor Management
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Regular
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Job Posting End Date:
11/22/2026
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