思想领袖营销联络高级总监
Associate Director, Thought Leader Marketing Liaison
**职位描述**
### 我们的美国免疫学团队致力于改善患有炎症性肠病（IBD）患者的生存质量。我们通过以患者为中心的承诺、创新、确保获得改变生命的疗法，以及与医疗系统、政府和支付方合作，使治疗方案惠及最需要的患者，从而实现这一目标。我们的重点是患者、科学严谨性和无懈可击的执行力——将突破性疗法带给需要的患者。
_**思想领袖营销联络人（TLML）（高级经理）**_ 是免疫学品牌营销组织的关键成员，直接向思想领袖联络团队负责人汇报。该职位负责确保倡导发展、平台和产品定位、演讲者项目准备与管理以及会议参与在战略上与品牌目标保持一致，并以合规的方式执行。这将帮助[我们的公司](https://go.msd.com/~vs4xix)在本地、区域和国家的IBD社区中建立强大且持续的影响力。此外，该角色对于确保关键科学领袖的见解直接影响品牌和市场进入策略至关重要。
### 主要职责
**倡导发展：**
- 协助识别和绘制美国IBD领域内国家级和区域级科学领袖（SL）、临床领袖和新兴专家。
- 开发并评估关键意见领袖在科学信息、产品定位和医学教育内容方面的倡导情况。
**SL/KOL参与执行：**
- 与SL进行参与，包括会议参与、现场访问和总部批准的活动（例如咨询委员会、客户战略会议）。
- 收集SL的可操作见解，以指导市场营销策略和品牌规划。
- 提供KOL对已批准的关键业务问题/主题的实时见解。
- 在全美范围内与关键思想领袖执行参与计划，并根据KOL和教师的意见支持开发已批准的教育内容。
**会议参与与互动：**
- 与营销团队合作，确定在主要IBD会议中的参与及支持力度。
- 在总部员工和KOL之间安排关键互动会议和会议执行。
**演讲者团队建设与准备：**
- 协助识别和管理美国IBD演讲者团队，包括教师创意
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**Job Description**
### Our US Immunology team is committed to transforming the lives of patients living with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). We aspire to achieve this through relentless commitment to patients, innovation, ensuring access to life-changing therapies, and collaborating with healthcare systems, governments, and payers to make treatments available to those who need them most. Our focus is on the patients, scientific rigor and flawless execution—bringing breakthrough therapies to patients who need them.
_**Thought Leader Marketing Liaison (TLML) (Associate Director)**_ is a key member of the Immunology brand marketing organization reporting directly to the Director, Thought Leader Liaison Team Leader. This position is responsible for ensuring that advocacy development, platform and product positioning, speaker program preparation and management, and congress engagement are strategically aligned with brand objectives and executed in a compliant manner. This will help [our Company](https://go.msd.com/~vs4xix) create a strong and sustained presence across local, regional, and national IBD communities. Additionally, this role is critical to ensure that key scientific leader insights directly inform brand and go-to-market strategies.
### Primary Responsibilities
**Advocacy Development:**
- Assist in identification and mapping of national and regional scientific leaders (SLs), clinical leaders, and emerging experts across the US IBD landscape.
- Develop and assess advocacy of key opinion leaders around the scientific messages, product positioning, and medical education content.
**SL/KOL Engagement Execution:**
- Execute engagements with SLs, including congress participation, site visits, and HQ-approved activities (e.g., advisory boards, customer strategy sessions).
- Gather actionable insights from SLs to inform marketing strategies and brand planning.
- Provide real-time insights from KOL’s on approved key business questions / topics.
- Execute engagement plans with key thought leaders throughout the US and support development of approved educational content based on KOL and faculty input.
**Congress Participation and Engagement:**
- Collaborate with marketing team to determine participation and level of support in key IBD conferences.
- Secure key engagement meetings and congress execution between HQ employees and KOLs
**Speaker Bureau Development & Readiness:**
- Help identify and manage a US IBD Speaker Bureau, including faculty identification, onboarding, and training as appropriate to approved content.
- Ensure speaker advocacy aligns to our scientific platform key messages and supports speaker readiness for educational speaker engagements including congress product theatres.
**Cross-Functional Collaboration:**
- Collaborate with field facing roles according to [our Company](https://go.msd.com/~vs4xix) Policy to ensure alignment on SL needs and account dynamics.
**Compliance & Governance:**
- Ensure strict adherence to compliance regulations, internal policies, and industry standards in all engagement activities.
### **Qualifications**
**Required:**
- Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree (MBA, MS, PharmD, or equivalent) preferred.
- Minimum 5-8 years in pharmaceutical sales, marketing, or field medical engagement or KOL management roles.
- Minimum 5 years as a Thought Leader Liaison or Regional Marketing strongly preferred
- At least 3 years of IBD experience strongly preferred with existing Key KOL networks in IBD
- Demonstrated success in building and maintaining scientific relationships with KOLs, speakers, or professional societies in a highly regulated environment.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills
- Proven ability to synthesize insights into strategic recommendations.
- Ability to influence and collaborate across a matrixed environment without direct authority.
- Travel up to 60% (including weekends and evenings for congresses and advisory meetings).
**Required Skills:**
Adaptability, Adaptability, Advisory Board Development, Brand Planning, Clinical Engagement, Clinical Trial Support, Domestic Policy, Engagement Strategies, Event Speaking, Healthcare Education, Influencing Skills, Interpersonal Relationships, Investigator-Initiated Studies (IIS), Legal Compliance, Liaison Work, Medical Affairs, Medical Knowledge, Medical Marketing Strategy, Multiple Therapeutic Areas, People Management, Pharmaceutical Industry, Pharmaceutical Medical Affairs, Pharmaceutical Sales, Policy Compliance, Position Statements {+ 9 more}
**Preferred Skills:**
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The salary range for this role is
$173,200.00 - $272,600.00
This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs.
The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable.
We offer a comprehensive package of benefits. Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days. More information about benefits is available at [https://jobs.merck.com/us/en/compensation-and-benefits](https://jobs.merck.com/us/en/compensation-and-benefits).
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**Employee Status:**
Regular
**Relocation:**
No relocation
**VISA Sponsorship:**
No
**Travel Requirements:**
50%
**Flexible Work Arrangements:**
Remote
**Shift:**
Not Indicated
**Valid Driving License:**
Yes
**Hazardous Material(s):**
N/A
**Job Posting End Date:**
10/14/2026
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