The Associate Director of Consumer Marketing will be responsible for developing and implementing tactical marketing programs, primarily for consumers and caregivers, supporting the bipolar 1 disorder and schizophrenia indications of LYBALVI.  This includes Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) strategy, media plan, content development, and analysis. The position requires an experienced and highly motivated individual with strong strategic and leadership capabilities.

Alkermes has recently adopted a hybrid working environment to support and meet the needs of employees and this role will operate in a flexible environment with 60% of time in the office and 40% from home.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

• Manages the execution of consumer promotional campaigns for LYBALVI®

• Crafts actionable assignment briefs for creative agencies

• Manages the development of the consumer media plan, channel allocation, targeting and measurement required to deliver on business and brand objectives

• Understands the beliefs and behaviors of bipolar 1 and schizophrenia patients

• Has strong command of bipolar-1 and schizophrenia patient journeys

• Manages and reconciles consumer marketing budget including SOW approvals, change orders and accruals

• Partners with Director, Senior Management and agencies to forecast, analyze and optimize DTC spend across channels

• Guides branded and unbranded creative through the Medical, Legal and Regulatory review and approval process in Veeva PromoMats

• Collaborates with Market Research to continuously generate actionable patient insights from reoccurring and ad-hoc studies

• Ensures patient perspective is infused into HCP team strategies

• Manage other marketing initiatives as needed

Qualifications

Minimum Education & Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business, science, or related field

• 10+ years of professional marketing or related experience 

Preferred Skills and Knowledge Qualifications:

• 7+ years of marketing experience, with significant experience in DTC pharma/life sciences

• Deep media/advertising (TV, CTV, digital, social, display, SEM, audio) planning and creative execution experience

• Manage and influence innovative consumer projects through a matrixed organization

• Translate brand plan marketing strategies into tactics activations

• Strong ability to build & foster relationships through effective communication

• Advanced analytical skills, integrating media performance data with marketing mix modeling, optimizing ROI and channel allocation

• Demonstrated success managing ad agencies, and media/measurement partners

• Experience with Veeva PromoMats preferred

  Travel Requirements:

  • Overnight travel <15%

  The annual base salary for this position ranges from $175,000 to $195,000.  In addition, this position is eligible for an annual performance pay bonus.  Exact compensation may vary based on skills, training, knowledge, and experience. Alkermes offers a competitive benefits package.  Additional details can be found on our careers website: www.alkermes.com/careers#working-here

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  About Us

  Why join Team Alkermes?

  Alkermes applies its deep neuroscience expertise to develop medicines designed to help people living with complex and difficult-to-treat psychiatric and neurological disorders. A fully-integrated, global biopharmaceutical company, headquartered in Ireland with U.S. locations in Massachusetts and Ohio, we are committed to pursuing great science, driven by deep compassion to make a real impact in the lives of patients. Alkermes has a portfolio of proprietary commercial products for the treatment of alcohol dependence, opioid dependence, schizophrenia and bipolar I disorder, and a pipeline of clinical and preclinical candidates in development for various neurological disorders, including narcolepsy.

  Beyond our important mission of developing medicines to address unmet patient needs, we actively seek to foster a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging throughout our business. We strive to ensure that all voices are respected and valued, recognizing that our diversity of thought, background and perspective makes us stronger. We are proud to have been recognized as an employer of choice by many national organizations, including being certified as a Great Place to Work in the U.S. in 2024, honored as a Healthiest Employer in both Ohio and Massachusetts in 2023, a Best Place for Working Parents in 2023, and to have received the Bell Seal at the Platinum level for Workplace Mental Health by Mental Health America for three consecutive years (2021-2023). 

  
  

  Alkermes, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any qualified applicant or employee because of race, creed, color, age, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender expression and identity, disability, genetic information, veteran status, military status, application for military service or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal law.  Alkermes also complies with all work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA.  Alkermes is an E-Verify employer.

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