Director, Marketing

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Engage and influence healthcare professionals to establish educational platforms, generate insights, and guide current and future brand and disease-state strategies.

• Implement Kite’s comprehensive commercial interaction strategy in the United States with opinion leaders in the hematology, hem/oncology, and CAR T treatment sectors.

• Identify, profile, nurture, and sustain long-term partnerships with national, regional, and emerging hematology opinion leaders.

• Formulate regional opinion leader strategies and communicate these plans with cross-functional collaborators.

• Gather opinion leader insights and develop advocacy that aligns with commercial and marketing strategies and messaging.

• Conduct on-label discussions concerning disease diagnosis and treatment, referral dynamics, product positioning, and opportunities for Kite.

• Organize and implement interactions with opinion leaders and executive meetings at conferences, field visits, and other venues.

• Address commercial opinion leader issues as a single point of contact.

• Collaborate with sales, marketing, medical affairs, Congress Strategy, and other cross-functional teams.

• Utilize opinion leader insights and competitive intelligence to shape brand strategies and tactical initiatives.

• Identify market gaps, foresee competitor actions, and drive strategic planning efforts.

• Facilitate the planning, recruitment, and execution of regional and national advisory boards.

• Identify, align, and recruit suitable healthcare professional and opinion leader consultants.

• Lead the development and execution of third-party educational programs, including vendor partnership management and tactical delivery.

• Inform the planning and execution of opinion leader programming, national and regional conferences, and speakers bureau activities.

• Ensure that opinion leader programming reflects real-world practices, geographic nuances, and unmet clinical needs.

• Foster inclusion, develop talent, and empower teams as a people leader.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree with Twelve Years of Experience OR Master's Degree with Ten Years of Experience OR PhD with Eight Years of Experience.

• Over 12 years of experience in the pharmaceutical/biotech industry, including prior sales experience in hematology/oncology.

• At least 2 years of people leadership experience within the pharmaceutical/biotech industry.

• Comprehensive understanding of the hematology/oncology clinical landscape.

• Exceptional interpersonal skills with a proven ability to cultivate relationships with oncology and cell therapy opinion leaders.

• Willingness and capability to stay updated on data readouts and communicate their implications to Kite.

• Strong ability to collaborate cross-functionally in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Willingness to travel extensively (>60%) within the region.

• Preferably, prior experience in cell therapy or stem cell transplant.

• Previous leadership experience is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Discretionary annual bonus.

• Discretionary stock-based long-term incentives.

• Paid time off.

• Company-sponsored medical insurance.

• Company-sponsored dental insurance.

• Company-sponsored vision insurance.

• Company-sponsored life insurance.