About This Role
Heading the marketing department of a family-owned pharmaceutical company is a versatile and highly visible role within the leadership team. This position combines strategic product management with leading a larger team, bringing an international component through the parent company. It suits an experienced marketing professional seeking new perspectives or someone ready to take on overall responsibility, especially with new products and a new digital health application (DiGA) launching soon.
Responsibilities
- Take overall responsibility for marketing, including the team, results, and budget
- Lead a team of approximately ten employees, ensuring clear structures, clean prioritization, and commitment
- Develop and implement the marketing strategy for the portfolio, from established prescription business to increasingly generic products
- Collaborate closely with sales and medical departments, with a strong focus on the physician field service
- Support new dosage forms and the launch of a digital health application
- Coordinate with the parent company and bring global impulses to the German market
- Monitor sales, results, and market share, and derive appropriate measures
Requirements
- Experience in pharmaceutical marketing with a focus on physician field service (Rx, generics, or OTC with physician communication)
- Leadership experience, from initial responsibility for a small team to an experienced Head of Marketing
- Sound product management and strategic brand management skills
- Good knowledge of the German health market, including regulatory frameworks
- Business-fluent English for international collaboration
- Personally: reliability and clear stance, strong prioritization skills, a true team player across marketing, sales, and medical, presence, and decisiveness
Benefits
- Overall responsibility with high visibility as part of the leadership team
- A family-owned, economically stable pharmaceutical company in an active growth and change phase
- A broad scope across Rx, generics, and digital health applications
- International integration through the parent company
- Flat hierarchies and short decision-making paths
- Hybrid work with a Berlin location
Important Details
- Team: approximately ten employees
About the Company
Our client is a family-owned pharmaceutical company with its own physician field service.
