Senior Director, Pre-launch Marketing: Cardiovascular Gene Editing

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Position Overview

Verve Therapeutics – a wholly owned subsidiary of Eli Lilly and Company – is seeking a Senior Director, Pre-launch Marketing: Cardiovascular Gene Editing to shape the environment for novel cardiovascular medicines in the years before they come to market.

Gene editing for cardiovascular disease (CVD) offers the potential to shift the CVD treatment paradigm from delayed intervention to early prevention. In this role, you will drive the changes needed in our healthcare system to enable better outcomes for patients with or at risk of CVD. You will develop and execute on a pre-launch marketing strategy to build trust in this new technology and shape how these medicines are organized, financed, and delivered.  

This critical role will collaborate across development, medical affairs, new product planning, and marketing groups and is responsible for delivering strategic and investment recommendations to leadership in Lilly’s Cardiometabolic Health (CMH) group. The ideal candidate will be comfortable challenging existing norms and will be motivated by the opportunity to shape an entirely new field of medicine.

Key responsibilities

• Develop a deep understanding of the current CVD market landscape, with a focus on patient & HCP unmet needs and barriers to care.
• Develop a global, cross-functional Innovation Readiness (IR) strategy that lays out key market-shaping priorities to address unmet needs for patients with or at risk of CVD.  
• Lead execution of tactics across the IR strategy and continually assess priorities as the market landscape evolves.
• Coordinate across development, medical affairs, and marketing functions to establish specific metrics for the IR plan, including setting quarterly target goals for tracking and execution.
• Lead the development of global physician and consumer Disease State Education campaigns, partnering with key stakeholders across functions and geographies.
• Ensure key elements of the disease state strategy (target patient identification, positioning, placement, etc.) reflect globally relevant insights.
• Activate the disease state strategy through a streamlined execution plan, ensuring this strategy is well understood by regional / affiliate team members.
• Develop core messaging across HCPs, patients, and payers that is globally, regionally, and locally relevant.
• Collaborate with external stakeholders to identify barriers in the healthcare system and develop novel methods to address unmet need.
• Lead deliverable creation for the pre-launch marketing strategy. Own communications of strategy to senior leadership.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.

• 8+ years in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry in market development, disease state or environment shaping, launch readiness, or global marketing.

Additional Skills & Preferences

• Advanced degree (MBA, PhD, PharmD or MS).

• Degree in life sciences.

• Demonstrated ability to translate strategy into funded, executed plans across functions and regions.

• Clear written and spoken communication to scientific and non-scientific audiences.
• Experience in cardiovascular disease, lipid management and/or genetic medicines.

• Launch experience.

• Deep scientific curiosity.

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Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location.  The anticipated wage for this position is

Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance). In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly’s compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees.

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