Associate Director Consumer Marketing

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

 The Pharmaceutical Consumer Marketing Manager is responsible for accelerating reach of Lilly medicines to patients, faster by developing and executing innovative marketing strategies. This role requires a deep understanding of consumer behaviour, market dynamics, and the ability to leverage data analytics to inform decision-making.

This role will lead the efforts to expand consumer marketing capabilities- identifying, leading, and building industry-leading consumer capabilities and skills.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement comprehensive consumer-directed marketing plans in close partnership with local brand teams and global colleagues that align with the business' strategic objectives.
• Execute with excellence across priority consumer initiatives.
• Develop and deliver consumer campaigns that lead to customer satisfaction/trust and seek business opportunities
• Lead a growing consumer team over time, as well as cross-functional teams to ensure successful product launches, brand building, and consumer engagement initiatives.
• Utilize market research and consumer insights to identify opportunities for growth and differentiation.
• Collaborate with brand team, communications, medical affairs, and market access teams to optimize product positioning and messaging.
• Manage consumer marketing budgets and assess the effectiveness of consumer-directed marketing campaigns.
• Stay abreast of industry trends and regulatory changes to adapt marketing strategies accordingly.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business Administration, or related field
• 5+ years of experience in consumer marketing, preferably from a consumer product good, tech or financial industry (non-pharma)
• Proven experience in consumer marketing within the Canadian regulated environment; ability to understand customer insights and pull through creative that is culturally relevant, engaging and meets country regulations.
• Delivered PESO campaigns (paid, earned, shared, owned) in action collaborating closely with communications and media teams to drive activation.
• Strong analytical skills and experience with data-driven marketing decision-making; Strong data and analytical skillset; understands leading and lagging metrics across Seek, Start and Stay
• Excellent communication and leadership skills (particularly in cross functional collaboration, decision making and leading without authority); Experience in organizational change management and to influence senior leaders for key strategic decisions.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.

Location: 
This is a hybrid role – onsite presence at our Toronto office will be determined with your manager based on business needs.  

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