Associate Global Category Head Marketing & Medical Agency Services (gn)

DAS UNTERNEHMEN

An established organization is expanding its team in a strategic category overseeing significant brand investments in Marketing & Medical Agency Services.

This is a team-leading, globally managed category, involving collaboration with high-level stakeholders to align strategies and goals with the appropriate category strategy, vendors, and framework. The sourcing team operates collaboratively across functions and cultures to ensure success in interactions with various stakeholders.

As an Associate Global Category Head, you will play a pivotal role in a versatile mission. If you are eager to contribute, this is an opportunity to consider.

IHRE AUFGABEN

• In your new role, you oversee, drive, and directly manage the implementation of the overarching category strategy in the global sub-category of assigned areas of responsibility.
• You lead and develop a team with different seniorities, pursuing their growth and improving their contribution to company’s strategic goals, and helping them to build mutually beneficial relationships internally and externally.
• You bring market knowledge and potential innovations to the company to ensure continuous improvement and competitiveness while leading a multi-disciplinary, international business team to optimize external spend and drive better business results.
• With your expertise, you establish effective relationship management with internal business partners (BPs) to analyze and optimize the use of internal demand across multiple OPUs and Business areas.
• You are responsible to align goals with company overall objectives in collaboration with the Head of Global Category while also monitoring the relationships with key suppliers within assigned Global Sub-category against governance and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Lastly, you potentially lead and drive sourcing projects within the Global Category, Sourcing Area, or higher levels in various Sourcing Areas.

IHR PROFIL

• Master’s degree or Diploma in marketing or business administration combined with a strong knowledge of agency management and pharmaceutical marketing.
• Long term experience in managing and establishing complex categories paired with few years of experience in leading international teams.
• Sound knowledge on the Agency environment and content process, paired with experience in stakeholder, risk management (both internal and external) and technological disruptions (AI).
• Open-minded, motivated, persuasive and perseverant personality with outstanding internal and external relationship management skills.
• Willingness to travel (approximately 15% of your working time) and extremely high fluency in English.
• Able to relocate to Western Europe

BENEFITS

• High-impact role with global reach and responsibility.
• Great opportunity to shape company media strategies. 
• Working in a globally-renown, employee-centric organization with excellent social benefits.
• Member of a diverse and global team.