Director of Marketing (#7443)

The Company

The Position

Reporting the VP of Sales and Marketing, the Director of Marketing will have overall accountability for Teva’s new product introductions, managing the P&L including forecasting and execution of customer facing marketing in Canada, differentiating Teva’s position in the market. Managing a team of 7, the Director will bring a high level of creativity and energy to the organization, performing the role with a substantive degree of autonomy and confidence.

• Ensure alignment and communication between departments: Sales, Regulatory Affairs, Project Management Office, R&D, Legal, and Business Development
• Responsible to work with internal stakeholders, pharmacists and corporate clients, as well as provincial governments
• Approve and implement all product launches from R&D Work Plan pipeline to commercialized products.
• Strong execution skills in addition to creative leadership skills that will continue to drive market share
• Maximize launch strategy based on market requirements (pack size, strength, forecast)
• Responsible for bottom up roll-up of the annual Work Plan.
• Review and Signoff product packaging guidelines, communication and any other printed marketing material.
• Maximize awareness of advertising campaigns
• Drive brand alignment of internal and external touch points (convert all corporate reference to Teva Novopharm, Sales Rep training, logo usage, etc…)
• Manage relationship with external vendors
• Participate in the sustainability project
• Maintain Teva’s leadership role within the technician field
• Maximize the value of Teva’s total business and base business portfolio; shape strategies to improve mix and margins
• Represent Sales and Marketing at the product portfolio life cycle meeting
• Annual budget planning for the marketing team
• Approved product forecast and Increase sales forecasts accuracy on all products
• Sourcing and contract negotiations with vendors
• Enhance employee productivity, teamwork, communication and development (team development)
• Provide leadership and guidance to the marketing team:
  • Manager of New Products, Manager of Base Business, Manager of Business Information, Marketing Coordinator, Graphic Designer, Translator

The Candidate

• University Degree Science undergrad with MBA preferred
• Generic industry, pharmacy practices, and healthcare industry experience preferred
• Strong marketing & financial knowledge
• Detail oriented individual with skill in computing moderately complex ratios, rates, statistics, averages and percentages
• Knowledge of applying simple quantitative data to create graphs/charts/diagrams
• Ability to interpret trends represented in a graphs/charts/diagrams/tables
• Experience managing a team
• Demonstrate a strong ability to express ideas clearly and concisely in writing
• Prepare technical/complex written materials that are accurate, clear, logical, well organized and contain proper grammar, punctuation and spelling
• Customer first focus; seeks interaction with customers
• Demonstrate the ability to set priorities, make decisions
• Required to establish organization/work unit needs and priorities
• Develop strategies to achieve multiple short and long term goals
• Consistently evaluate work processes and outcomes
• Work with global organization to leverage best practices
• Build in contingency plans
• Must demonstrate ability to solve complex/sensitive problems, sometimes using creative thinking to do so
• An ability to anticipate problems, identifies, and evaluates potential sources of information
• Ability to work effectively on unclear, ambiguous, or contradictory problems
• Applies several analytic/creative techniques to break apart complex problems into component problems/issues

Reporting To

Vice President, Sales & Marketing

Location

GTA

Remuneration & Benefits

Competitive compensation and benefits package

Apply

If you are interested, and feel you are qualified, please submit your resume, in confidence, to Tim Hewat at: thewat@cambridgemgmt.com