Merck & Co, Inc

Assoc. Director, Marketing Comms/Channels

Merck & Co, Inc$142K — $224K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred.
  • 5+ years of experience in pharmaceutical or healthcare marketing/digital roles.
  • Proven ability to synthesize complex scientific data into compelling content.
  • Strong project management skills and experience leading cross-functional teams.
  • Expertise in digital marketing execution and customer analytics.

Responsibilities

  • Support global brand team as a strategic content partner during product launches.
  • Lead core content development and ensure compliance in branding efforts.
  • Drive technology adoption for efficient content creation processes.
  • Manage agency relationships and oversee content creation timelines.
  • Ensure accessibility and governance of strategic content for stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and other insurance benefits for employee and family.
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company contributions.
  • Paid holidays, vacation, and sick days.
  • Annual bonus and long-term incentive opportunities.
Full Job Description
Job Description

The Role

This role in Global Content Marketing will be focused on supporting launch brands. Day-to-day responsibilities focus on brand building, creative development, communication strategies, and leading the development of core content (promotional and medical ed) for HCPs and HCCs aligned with the commercial strategy and desired customer experience for key global brands.

Additional key responsibilities will include:
  • Strategic partner and Content Expert to Global Brand Team, ensuring strategy realization during launch lifecycle
  • Leads core content creative executionefforts from briefing creation (Workfront), content development and management (tools/technology enhancements), Medical Legal Review (PRT) and compliant content accessibility & storage (DAM)
  • Embraces and implements technology advances to drive further content creation efficiency
  • Co-manage and provide oversight in day-to-day agency relationships specific to core content creation (timelines, consolidated direction, scope support)
  • Partner with Content Accelerator Agency Team for AOR escalations
  • Consultative partner to development of Branding & Campaign Implementation Guidance ensuring brand consistency and standardization (supporting scalability)
  • Collaborates to ensure ELMs/HHI have access to globally-developed core strategic content, tools and technology for seamless re-use; executes governance plans
  • Identifies and creates content to support Global Congress efforts for launch lifecycle, sharing recommendations with GHQ marketing stakeholders
  • Manages content lifecycle during launch/post-launch period (global content renewals, updates, retirement)
  • Model the Content Accelerator vision through rapid adoption of AI enhancements
  • Consultant to Global Brand and Content Accelerator Teams providing input, guidance, updates and validation to operating model principles and structure


The candidate will ensure all activities are in full compliance with appropriate regulations and company policies.

Position Qualifications:

Education Minimum Requirement:

Bachelor's Degree required. Advanced degree preferred.

Required Experience and Skills**:
  • Demonstrated experience in digital marketing execution, digital media planning and customer analytics
  • Minimum of 5 years of combined experience in pharmaceutical or healthcare industry marketing/digital marketing/market support/sales functions
  • Astute business and analytical skills with the ability to synthesize complex scientific data into medical education/promotion content story development
  • Ability to translate complex scientific principles into simple and impactful consumer communications
  • Strong knowledge of marketing principles, such as L3 Next
  • Prior success leading cross-functional teams
  • Agency/vendor management experience
  • Strong project management and interpersonal skills


Preferred Experience and Skills:
  • Therapeutic knowledge of pharma, vaccines, or other therapeutic areas that require complex scientific understanding
  • Product/New Indication/Market event launch experience
  • Experience and demonstrated leadership working with key marketing stakeholders, and country contacts
  • Experience with Veeva PromoMats
  • Creative thinking / problem-solving skills / story-telling expertise
  • Ability to communicate proactively and effectively
  • Self-motivated; hands-on approach to work
  • Practical knowledge of agile methodology and frameworks with experience working in global cross-functional teams
  • Strong strategic thinking
  • Experience using analytics to measure and optimize digital initiatives/campaigns


Required Skills:
Adaptability, Agency Management, Agency Relationships, Brand Alignment, Brand Communications, Brand Development, Brand Management, Brand Strategy, Business Marketing, Campaign Development, Content Creation, Cross-Functional Project Management, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Digital Marketing, Healthcare Marketing, Innovation, Marketing, Marketing Analytics, Marketing Automation, Marketing Channels, Marketing Communications Planning, Marketing Content Strategy, Marketing Management, Rebranding, Strategic Thinking

Preferred Skills:

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US and Puerto Rico Residents Only:

Our company is committed to inclusion, ensuring that candidates can engage in a hiring process that exhibits their true capabilities. Please click here if you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process.

The salary range for this role is
$142,400.00 - $224,100.00

This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs.

The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits. Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days. More information about benefits is available at https://jobs.merck.com/us/en/compensation-and-benefits.

You can apply for this role through https://jobs.merck.com/us/en (or via the Workday Jobs Hub if you are a current employee). The application deadline for this position is stated on this posting.

San Francisco Residents Only: We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

Los Angeles Residents Only: We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance

Search Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails.

Employee Status:
Regular

Relocation:
No relocation

VISA Sponsorship:
No

Travel Requirements:
10%

Flexible Work Arrangements:
Hybrid

Shift:
Not Indicated

Valid Driving License:
No

Hazardous Material(s):
N/A

Job Posting End Date:
09/10/2026
*A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFORE the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date.

About Merck & Co, Inc

Schering-Plough Corporation is a major U.S.-based manufacturer of pharmaceuticals. It operates in three segments: Prescription Pharmaceuticals, Animal Health, and Consumer Health Care. Schering-Plough develops products targeting on allergy, cancer, hepatitis, cardiovascular, central nervous system, respiratory system, and more.  It was founded in 1851 by Ernst Christian Friedrich Schering as Schering AG in Germany. Schering-Plough manufactured several pharmaceutical drugs, the most well-known of which were the allergy drugs Claritin and Clarinex, an anti-cholesterol drug Vytorin, and a brain tumor drug Temodar. It also developed drugs targeting on central nervous system and the respiratory system. Schering Plough also owned and operated the major foot care brand name Dr. Scholl's and the skin care line Coppertone. These also became a part of the new company. Schering-Plough was a full member of the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA), a membership which is also maintained by the new Merck.

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Learn more about Merck & Co, Inc
Size
68,000 employees
Market Cap
$282.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
$7 billion
Founded
1668
5 Year Trend
+4.1%
Revenue
$47.9 billion
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