Associate Brand Manager – Vaccines - KSA
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About the Role
MSD is seeking an Associate Brand Manager for the Vaccines portfolio in Saudi Arabia. The role involves driving brand strategy execution, enabling sales teams, and ensuring cross-functional alignment.
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Responsibilities
- Contribute to the development of local brand strategies based on market insights
- Own and drive execution of brand plans end to end
- Lead the development and localization of promotional materials
- Own readiness and effectiveness of sales enablement tools and materials
- Lead coordination across Medical, Market Access, Policy, Regulatory, Supply Chain, and Sales teams
- Analyze market trends, customer insights, and competitive dynamics
- Own tracking of brand KPIs, performance, and budget utilization
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy, Marketing, Business, or Life Sciences
- 2–4 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry (Sales, Marketing, or related roles)
- Saudi national only
- Willingness to travel within the Kingdom
- Strong compliance mindset
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Role Purpose
- Drive high quality execution of brand strategies for the Vaccines portfolio in Saudi Arabia.
- Contribute to strategy shaping while leading implementation excellence, enabling field teams, and ensuring strong cross functional alignment.
Key Responsibilities
- Brand Planning & Execution: Contribute to local brand strategies, own execution of brand plans, translate strategic priorities into actionable initiatives, monitor brand performance.
- Strategic Contribution: Actively contribute to brand planning cycles, own specific components of the brand plan, challenge plans through data driven insights.
- Promotional & Customer Engagement Excellence: Lead development and localization of promotional materials, ensure consistent communication of brand value proposition, drive customer engagement initiatives.
- Sales Force Enablement Leadership: Own readiness and effectiveness of sales enablement tools, lead training initiatives, act as go to brand expert for sales team.
- Cross Functional Leadership: Lead coordination across Medical, Market Access, Policy, Regulatory, Supply Chain, and Sales teams.
- Market & Business Insights: Analyze market trends, customer insights, competitive dynamics, identify opportunities, translate insights into actionable recommendations.
- Financial & Operational Management: Own tracking of brand KPIs, performance, budget utilization, support forecasting, identify risks and drive corrective actions.
Requirements
- This role is open to Saudi nationals only.
- Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy, Marketing, Business, or Life Sciences.
- 2–4 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry (Sales, Marketing, or related roles).
- Experience in vaccines or public sector is a plus.
Skills & Competencies
- Ownership Mindset: Takes full accountability for delivering business outcomes.
- Execution Excellence: Strong ability to drive high quality execution under timelines.
- Strategic Thinking: Ability to link insights with brand strategy and execution.
- Leadership Potential: Demonstrates initiative and ability to lead projects and influence stakeholders.
- Collaboration: Works effectively across functions while driving alignment and outcomes.
- Communication: Strong verbal and written communication in English and Arabic.
Other Requirements
- Willingness to travel as needed within the Kingdom.
- Strong compliance mindset and adherence to company policies.
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