Director – Business Partner Media, MarTech & Content Production

Role Summary

Director – Business Partner Media, MarTech & Content Production

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted advisor and thought leader within the Commercialization organization, offering expert insights into market trends, supplier capabilities, and best practices for go-to-market strategies.
• Forge strategic, high-impact partnerships with key partners across Global and US Marketing, including Global Customer Capabilities ensuring alignment between business priorities and Media, MarTech & Content Production Category strategies.
• Leverage market intelligence to craft business strategies that seamlessly connect with category objectives.
• People leadership experience across global category & sourcing teams
• Work strategically with the supply base to drive supplier-enabled innovation that supports and enhances business partner objectives.
• Provide Marketing Procurement expertise to catalyze business development, operational innovation, and other high-value initiatives.
• Collaborate with Finance and cross-functional teams to generate, capture, and recognize value across the Marketing pipeline. Influence budgetary decisions and profit-and-loss outcomes to enhance impact.
• Promote the adoption of Procurement-led and business-aligned critical initiatives, ensuring integration across stakeholders, end users, suppliers, and strategic partners.
• Bridge the gap between procurement performance and business objectives by driving the implementation of relevant initiatives developed by Category Leads.

Qualifications

• Basic Qualifications:
  • Doctorate degree and 4 years of business partnering, marketing, and/or related experience
  • Or Master‚Äôs degree and 8 years of business partnering, marketing, and/or related experience
  • Or Bachelor‚Äôs degree and 10 years of business partnering, marketing, and/or related experience
• In addition to meeting at least one of the above requirements, you must have at least 4 years experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs, or directing the allocation or resources.

• Preferred Qualifications:
  • Advanced degree or significant professional experience in Marketing, Media, or Agency Management.
  • An analytical approach focused on performance metrics and value management, encompassing the generation, realization, and recognition of pipeline value.
  • Experience in Commercialization Category Management, including MarTech, Data, Analytics, and Customer Engagement.
  • Expertise in Commercialization Contracting and/or Sourcing Excellence.
  • Experience leading Marketing Procurement categories & teams, from shaping strategies to successful execution
  • Marketing & Media Procurement Category experience in Biotech or Pharma
  • Track record of collaborating with senior-level Marketing stakeholders as a trusted business partner.
  • Strong leadership and influence within matrixed teams, with the ability to unify and guide cross-functional efforts.
  • Demonstrated expertise in spearheading cross-functional initiatives, making strategic category trade-offs, and representing major vertical categories at top-level decision-making forums.
  • Exceptional change management skills, enabling the adoption of complex Procurement and business strategies across ecosystems.
  • Competence in translating business priorities into actionable category strategies.
  • Deep understanding of driving supplier-enabled innovation into commercial ecosystems.
  • Outstanding communication and partner engagement abilities.

Skills

• Business partnering
• Marketing procurement
• Category management
• Sourcing excellence
• Stakeholder engagement
• Strategic planning
• Change management

Education

• Doctorate/Master‚Äôs/Bachelor‚Äôs degree as required by qualifications