Associate Director, OCX Media

Kyowa Kirin is a fast-growing global specialty pharmaceutical company that applies state-of-the-art biotechnologies to discover and deliver novel medicines in four disease areas: bone and mineral; intractable hematologic; hematology oncology; and rare disease.  A Japan-based company, our goal is to make people smile by delivering breakthroughs where no adequate treatments currently exist, working from drug discovery to product development and commercialization. In North America, we are headquartered in Princeton, NJ, with offices in California, Massachusetts, and Ontario.

Summary of Job:

As part of the OXC Channel team, this position will facilitate the execution of media processes, media measurement, and social media capabilities across the Commercial Organization.  It will support the Omnichannel media and social media tactics within KKNA and works closely with the OCX Brand and Data teams to consistently deliver outstanding customer experiences. 

Essential Functions:

• Support OCX Media & Channel operations across a range of strategic topics from annual brand media planning, social media planning, tactic selection, budgeting, vendor management
  
  
• Collaborates with media AOR and support / review tactical plan development and execution

• Collaborates with social media AOR to review tactical plan, content development, and execution

• Serve as the day-to-day point of contact for social media governance, ensuring process and policies are respected

• Translate strategy statement into ideas and actions; Partner with OCX Brand team to expand communications planning influence beyond single deliverables into orchestrated media marketing tactics that deliver on stated goals using approved marketing and communications channels and strategies
  
  
• Support strategic positioning, segmentation initiatives, audience targeting, and holistic program planning and communications
  
  
• Serve as the day-to-day point of contact for all media activation, processes, and reporting needs
  
  
• Champion the compliant use of data and conversation of data into actionable insights to drive efficient and effective customer experiences; transforms campaign metrics and market research into actionable customer insights, observations, and implications
• Regularly gather internal customer and external industry feedback to continuously improve and enhance the media offerings to ensure outstanding customer experiences.

Job Requirements:

Education

B.A. or B.S. in Business or Digital Marketing required, preferred M.B.A. in Marketing

Experience

6-8 years pharmaceutical/life science, OTC, DTC/HCP, Agency experience in Digital & Omnichannel Marketing / Operations and/or supporting in those areas

Technical Skills

Veeva Commercial Cloud, Google Analytics, Social & Paid Media Management, Commercial Data solutions (e.g. Power BI), Marketing CRM, Proficient in MS Office Suite.

Non-Technical Skills

Highly motivated and great attention to detail. Strong endurance to work under tight timelines and complex/changing situations.  Fluency in requirements for regulated industries. Excellent written and oral communication skills. Excellent problem-solving skills. Broad level of interpersonal skills and flexibility.  Cultural sensitivity and ability to develop consensus within a multinational organization.

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