Marketing Partner, Rare Bone and Endocrine Disorders

This role is based in Barcelona, with an on-site commitment of three days a week. Fluency in English is required.

At Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease, we are innovators, leaders, and collaborators. At the heart of everything we do is an intense desire to pursue the toughest challenges and truly change the world for people living with rare and devastating diseases.

The GMMA (Global Marketing and Market Access) team is a fully integrated commercial strategy team, aligning global marketing, new product planning, and commercial excellence across all therapeutic and disease areas. The purpose of GMMA is to partner with both global colleagues (R&D, Operations, Corporate Affairs, Finance, et al) and regional and local Commercial colleagues to ensure the successful development and launch of innovative therapies that will deliver value for all our stakeholders. Our unique culture is centered on collaboration, authenticity, creativity, and pushing the boundaries on everything we do to advance patient care.

Based in our Barcelona office and reporting to the GMMA TA head of  Rare Bone and Endocrine Disorders, the Global Marketing Partner will support the Eneboparatide strategy development, planning, and execution in preparation for the global launch. The role will be a critical global contributor to enable the organization to exceed budgeted revenue targets and financial business objectives for the strategic planning period. The successful candidate will be responsible for preparing global strategic plan materials, and other global commercial deliverables, partnering with key stakeholders across global, regional, and market commercial and medical teams.

As a core member of the Enebopratide launch team you will be responsible to:

• Contributing to the development and implementation of the strategic and tactical plan providing marketing leadership and innovation.

• Evolving our global brand assets including the identification, testing, and validation of creative concepts and messaging architecture, and creation of certain global assets (e.g., launch materials, sales support tools, and educational aids).

• Partnering with regions to provide strategic market and product positioning guidance and helping to drive local adaptation and execution of brand and disease area strategies.

• Collaborating with regional markets to:

  • Drive execution against key priorities to enable the organization to improve business performance and exceed budgeted revenue targets for the strategic planning period.

  • Align regional campaigns to global core messages.

• Informing the commercial organization on medical publications and content.

• As a core member of the disease planning team:

  • Refining the global commercial strategy for HypoPT based on the patient journey and evolving competitive set.

  • Refining core strategic and tactical materials including patient journey and leverage points, messaging, positioning, etc.

• Preparing inputs to be used within long-term planning forecasts.

• Coordinating shared best practices across the different geographies.

• Leading cross-functional strategic sub-teams and strategic initiatives to deliver on key business objectives and monitoring global progress against key indicators.

• Informing specific insight projects to support the overall development of the brand strategy, including facilitating Awareness Trial and Usage (ATU) studies.

• Evaluating market trends, financial analysis, and changing customer habits to lead downstream execution of revenue and margin expansion initiatives.

• Establishing and maintaining communication channels and cross-functional collaboration with other global functions and geographical regions:

  • Therapeutic Area teams on disease area decisions.

  • R&D on clinical progress, timelines, and expectations of commercial functions.

  • Regional teams to capture customer habits and trends.

• Supporting and/or developing processes aimed to ensure we have the optimal amount of inventory and long-term supply for customer satisfaction and business financial success.

• Bachelor’s degree in a scientific or business area.

• At least 3 years of industry experience across sales, marketing, consulting, medical, or other commercial functions. Experience of supporting/driving complex projects through successful partnerships.

• Excellent strategic thinking and operational execution capability. 

• Ability to excel in ambiguity.

• Demonstrated ability to thrive in a cross-functional, highly collaborative, and fast-paced environment.

• Customer focused, displayed by the ability to engage actively with the diverse needs of internal stakeholders, adaptable and flexible approach to meeting business needs.

• Naturally connects and builds strong relationships with others, demonstrating emotional intelligence and an ability to communicate clearly and persuasively.

• This job may require up to 15% business travel, including internationally.

• Global marketing experience or regional or country marketing experience.

• Experience in specialty/orphan drugs/rare disease.

• Knowledge of Endocrinology practice and therapeutic area.

• Experience with prelaunch, launch or in-line marketing.

• MBA/PhD degree.

• Multilingual skills are preferred.

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

Why AstraZeneca: Here, marketing leaders sit at the heart of medicine launches that matter. You will work in an environment that blends the agility of a biotech with the scale of a global organization, where unexpected teams come together to transform insight into impact for people with rare conditions. You will partner closely with colleagues across science, market access, and regions to build strategies grounded in real patient journeys, enabled by cutting-edge tools and a collaborative culture that values kindness alongside ambition. Your decisions will be visible in aligned field execution, faster patient access, and a launch that sets a new standard for what great looks like.

Call to Action: If you are ready to lead a high-consequence launch and turn patient and market insight into lasting impact, step into this role and shape what comes next.

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