Executive Director Business Unit

Job Description

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.

Reporting to the Managing Director of Switzerland we are looking for an Executive Director level Business Unit Director (BUD), Oncology to help maximize the growth of our oncology portfolio in Switzerland.

The BUD will have responsibility for sales and marketing, with full P&L responsibility, and work closely with other members of the Leadership Team. The Oncology BUD will oversee the development of the strategic plan, annual plan, and long-range operating plan, collaborating with members of the global and regional organizations to support the top and bottom-line growth of in-line products and flawlessly execute the launch of new products.

This leader will demonstrate the ability to collaborate across Business Units and functions with a strong understanding of the healthcare ecosystem.

As a member of the Leadership Team, they will proactively assess the evolution of our business and work closely with the Leadership Team to further help the whole organization achieve its vision.

Your key responsibilities:

Perform

• Translate our Purpose and Strategic Framework for employees and organizational partners by linking them to their daily responsibilities

• Leverage a customer-centric approach to develop strategies and solutions that allow us to create and capture value

• Provide commercial leadership and input on health authority interactions, regulatory filing strategy, launch readiness reviews, key customer management, and thought leader engagement

• Leverage data to understand market dynamics, performance, forecast and develop a long term vision and strategy for the Business Unit

• Assuming responsibility for the P&L within a multifunctional organization and achieving annual budget targets

• Achieve targets by prioritizing strong financial performance and successfully delivering on operational commitments, including top-line revenue growth, market share improvement, and increased profits

Transform

• Develop imaginative, broad-based, non-traditional approaches to develop business opportunities using a customer-driven, end-to-end approach. Flex and adapt rapidly to new situations and continually seek new opportunities

• Drive change and generate new ideas, as well as encourage others to generate ideas

Inspire and Develop

• Engage, motivate, and inspire his/her organization (marketing, sales, and support functions)

• Set direction for the business and align the team to execute the strategy enthusiastically. Demonstrate ability to lead and influence people and teams not reporting directly to him/her

• Attract, retain, and develop strong and diverse talents by providing feedback, coaching, and development opportunities

Collaborate

• Build strong relationships with regional and global organizations by integrating the broader organization’s expertise and know-how into the operations, take guidance effectively and contribute to corporate knowledge resources

• Collaborate extensively and successfully with peers, cross-BU resources, Regional and HQ colleagues

• Build and sustain relationships with key external stakeholders, customers, and scientific leaders

Your qualifications:

• Relevant education at minimum Bachelor’s degree, Master’s degree preferred

• Extensive commercial and operational experience in leadership roles in multiple functions and geographies

• Managed a P&L for a business or function

• Experience as a BUD is an advantage

• Experience in the Swiss hospital environment is an advantage

• Experience in Oncology is an advantage

Skills and Capabilities

• Ability to be a strategist and a leader who can steer the company in the most profitable direction while also implementing its vision, mission, and long-term goals

• Embracing patient customer focus; ensuring that the internal or external customer’s perspective is a driving force behind strategic priorities, business decisions, organizational processes, and individual activities

• Having an imaginative, broad-based, and entrepreneurial mindset to develop business opportunities

• Understanding of major business functions, industry trends and own organization’s position to contribute to effective business strategies and/or tactics

• Building organizational talent by coaching and developing others for success

• Cultivating networks and partnerships; initiating and maintaining strategic relationships with stakeholders and potential partners inside and outside the organization

• Champion diversity

• Strong influencing skills and ability to navigate among many different stakeholders at various levels at all levels of the organization

• Leading change by driving organizational and cultural changes needed to achieve strategic priorities

• Fluency in English, German preferred

THE COMPANY

Our company has had a presence in Switzerland since 1963. With a regional office and manufacturing/packaging facility, Lucerne is considered the center of operations. Approximately 1,000 people work collaboratively at the four Lucerne locations (Tribschenstrasse, Citybay, Schachen and Kriens). A fifth location has been established in Zurich, aimed at accelerating the development and commercialization of many of our company’s medicines and vaccines, which supports our mission to save and improve lives around the world.

We are proud to be certified as a “Top Employer Switzerland” and “Top Employer Europe” showing the company’s commitment to our employees and the community around us.

Citybay, Luzern

The Switzerland Head Office of our company’s Swiss Subsidiary is based in Lucerne's city centre. Located in the heart of the city, employees work collaboratively across many departments including commercial, market access, medical affairs, clinical research, regulatory affairs, and policy & communications.

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.

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Requisition ID:R286799