Director, Regional Marketing Lead – Lung, Head & Neck, GI Cancers and Subcutaneous Launch

Job Description

Role Overview
Our Oncology organization is dedicated to delivering breakthrough innovations that extend and improve the lives of people with cancer across Asia Pacific. We are focused on translating breakthrough science into meaningful customer solutions, expanding access to innovative medicines, and delivering strong execution across priority oncology brands and indications.

The Director, Regional Oncology Marketing Lead – Lung, Head & Neck, GI Cancers and Subcutaneous Launch is a key regional commercial leadership role responsible for shaping franchise strategy, brand planning, portfolio prioritization, forecasting, and lifecycle strategy across assigned tumour areas and the subcutaneous launch. The role partners closely with markets, cross-functional regional teams, and global stakeholders to identify growth opportunities, anticipate market challenges, inform investment choices, and strengthen long-term portfolio value. The role requires strong strategic thinking, business judgment, analytical discipline, and cross-functional leadership. The incumbent will translate market insights, competitive intelligence, access realities, customer needs, and financial assumptions into clear strategic recommendations, actionable brand plans, and high-quality business decisions across Asia Pacific.

What will you do:

• Owns regional franchise strategy, brand planning, and portfolio priorities across assigned lung, head & neck, GI cancer indications and the subcutaneous launch.
• Leads strategic planning, long-range planning inputs, forecasting assumptions, performance reviews, and opportunity assessments in partnership with country teams and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Identifies key growth opportunities, market challenges, access risks, competitive threats, conversion barriers, and strategic business questions requiring regional leadership.
• Balances regional strategic direction with local market adaptation across diverse Asia Pacific market environments, particularly across large mature markets, access-constrained markets, and fast-evolving competitive landscapes.
• Requires strong matrix leadership across commercial, medical, market access, policy, analytics, finance, regulatory, supply, global teams, and country leadership.
• May include responsibility for guiding, coaching, and prioritizing the work of marketers or project teams supporting assigned priorities.

What should you have:

• >10 years of pharmaceutical industry experience with strong exposure to oncology, specialty care, or innovative medicines.
• Substantial local, regional or global strategic marketing experience, ideally including franchise, portfolio, or major launch ownership.
• Strong business acumen and strategic thinking, with ability to manage complexity and make high-quality trade-off decisions.
• Demonstrated experience leading brand planning, forecasting, performance reviews, opportunity assessments, launch strategy, or lifecycle strategy.
• Demonstrated ability to influence across a matrix and lead without direct authority.
• People management experience with a track record of coaching and developing talent.
• Strong analytical skills with ability to synthesize market, customer, access, competitive, and launch readiness insights into clear strategic recommendations.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and executive presentation skills.
• Proven ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives with strong ownership and discipline.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, life sciences, or a related field required.

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 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.