Merck & Co, Inc

Associate Director, Campaign Development Lead - HIV

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

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field
  • 5+ years in digital marketing or sales
  • Ability to work onsite at least 3 days a week
  • Strong digital acumen in content effectiveness
  • Experience in healthcare marketing is preferable
  • Proven cross-functional team leadership
  • Outstanding communication and influencing skills

Responsibilities

  • Lead the development of integrated digital campaigns
  • Shape customer experience through creative processes
  • Employ AGILE methodologies and test-and-learn approaches
  • Collaborate with diverse teams in campaign execution
  • Drive strategy and creativity from development to market delivery
  • Utilize customer insights for optimal targeting strategies
  • Innovate in using new technologies for campaign enhancement

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits for employees and families
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Paid holidays and vacation days
  • Compassionate and sick leave
  • Annual bonus and long-term incentives eligible
Full Job Description
Job Description

Role Summary:

Our Digital team is innovating how we understand our patients and their needs. Working cross functionally, we are inventing new ways of communicating, measuring and interacting with our customers and patients through digital channels and technologies.

Campaign Development Lead

Put your marketing strategy into action as you lead the development of our customer experience and campaign planning. Leveraging your strong understanding of customer insights, you'll shape and orchestrate fully integrated digital campaigns and confidently lead our agency and internal teams through the creative process for campaigns, resources, and relevant content. This is your chance to use your digital knowledge to employ new technologies and channels, developing customer-experience best practices and targeting to achieve an optimal customer experience. Employing AGILE practices and a test-and-learn approach through each phase of the project, you'll wear many different hats as you collaborate with - architects, scrum masters, agency contractors, internal legal, medical, and regulatory teams in the co-design, co-creation, and execution of campaign plans every step of the way. You'll be crucial in strategy development, creative development, approval, and market delivery, impacting the final product significantly.

Qualifications:

Minimum Requirements:
• Bachelor's degree (BS/BA)
• 5+ years of combined digital marketing/marketing support or sales experience
• Ability to work at our North Wales (Upper Gwynedd), Pennsylvania office at least 3 days per week
• Ability to work effectively in an ambiguous space, shifting from the tactical to the strategic
• Capacity to effectively collaborate and drive change while focusing on the co-design, co-creation, and execution phases of creative development
• Strong digital acumen and understanding of criteria for effective digital content
• Knowledge/experience in healthcare marketing and/or promotion
• Demonstrated ability to implement marketing strategies that work
• Excellent business and communication/influencing skills
• Experience and success in a cross-functional team leadership role
• Well organized, highly motivated, process-driven, results-oriented personality
• Ability to re-balance priorities and assume responsibility in a multi-tasking environment
• Understanding of how to maximize digital channels, techniques, and operating models
• Ability to thrive within a data-driven, fast-paced setting defined by change
• Innovative thinking

Preferred Qualifications:
• Digital marketing experience in the pharmaceutical industry

Required Skills:
Adaptability, Adaptability, Agency Management, Campaign Development, Channel Management, Content Creation, Cross-Functional Project Management, Customer Engagement, Customer Insights, Customer Marketing, Digital Marketing, Direct Marketing, Email Marketing, Healthcare Marketing, Ideation, Marketing, Marketing Activation, Marketing Automation, Marketing Campaign Planning, Marketing Management, Marketing Plan Execution, Marketing Strategies, Marketing Tactics, Search Engine Marketing (SEM), Social Media Operations {+ 1 more}

Preferred Skills:

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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

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Employee Status:
Regular

Relocation:
No relocation

VISA Sponsorship:
No

Travel Requirements:
No Travel Required

Flexible Work Arrangements:
Hybrid

Shift:
Not Indicated

Valid Driving License:
No

Hazardous Material(s):
N/A

Job Posting End Date:
09/12/2026
*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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Net Income
$7 billion
Founded
1668
5 Year Trend
+4.1%
Revenue
$47.9 billion
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