Director, US Market Development Lead

Cytokinetics is a latestage specialty cardiovascular biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering developing and commercializing firstinclass muscle activators and nextinclass muscle inhibitors as potential treatments for debilitating diseases in which cardiac muscle performance is compromised. As a leader in muscle biology and the mechanics of muscle performance the company is developing small molecule drug candidates specifically engineered to impact myocardial muscle function and contractility.

We view our employees as the unequivocal ingredients to success. Each and every employee is an integral member of the Cytokinetics team contributing to our shared goal of improving lives. While the expectations of our employees are high there is an equal commitment to ensuring that contributions are recognized and rewarded. We seek exceptional individuals to join us in our mission to develop potential medicines to improve the healthspan of people with cardiovascular and neuromuscular diseases of impaired muscle function.

The incoming Director will be responsible for the planning and evolution development and execution across channels and customers of all nearterm and forwardlooking market development strategies and unbranded communication programs and activities to drive forward commercial objectives in the US. As we look to the future this role will play a critical role in the longterm growth of the business.

This colleague will sit on the marketing leadership team and will report directly into the VP of US Marketing. Critical to this role is a strong sense of collaboration both internally and externally driving alignment across the brand team as well as cross functional partners while managing multiple demands and creatively managing resources.

Responsibilities

• Partner with marketing leadership and customer leads to define and implement the overall strategy creation and implementation of market development strategies to deliver against overarching brand objectives and future expansion

• Lead the execution and future evolution of market development campaigns and unbranded education

• Partner with Global Marketing to ensure consistency and alignment in how organization is communicating globally

• Engage with customerfacing colleagues and brand leads to support needs of various customers and executional needs

• Lead engagement with external disease state education and brand agencies for all programs.

• Partner with Corporate Communications to ensure corporate identity and messaging is consistent and integrated across programs.

• Partner cross functionally on various corporate leadership programs both those in market currently and any future opportunities

• Support internal communications campaign regarding disease and market education in collaboration with Corporate Communications

• Build and foster deep internal relationships while also building expertise in the HCM market to recognize future opportunities.

• Development of annual plan and budgets associated with Unbranded and Market Dec to include all marketing collateral design and development sponsorships etc.

• Comanage unbranded patient ambassadorship program in partnership with Advocacy organization.

• Manage all HCP and Patient unbranded media including unbranded CRM

• Partner with advocacy organizations and Professional Societies in developing supporting content for patients

• Develop all unbranded field material and partner with training for roll out

Qualifications

• 8 years of in the biotech/pharmaceutical industry with at least 5 years in brand management/marketing experience.

• Strong understanding of market development and lifecycle evolution preferred

• Bachelors degree in a related field. MBA preferred

• Experienced project management with a demonstrated history of leading high stakes projects with successful results. Experienced manager of vendor relationships with strong competency in working the relationship to get the most out of the vendor relationship.

• Dynamic selfstarter with strong influential skills.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication.

• Strong time management and organizational skills.

• Ability to manage multiple projects in a fastpaced environment with a sense of urgency and ability to perform under tight time pressures.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities and to effectively communicate / negotiate those priorities with others in the organization. Priorities include both business needs and value assessment versus budget.

• Demonstrates ability to work independently and in collaborative team environment.

Our passion is anchored in rigorous and diligent scientific and clinical approaches to the discovery and development of novel mechanism therapeutics. With gratitude for the commitments and convictions of our employees who are inspired by the courage of patients we aim to serve we believe Cytokinetics will continue to be a pioneering valuesdriven sustainable fully integrated biopharmaceutical company.

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Our employees come from different backgrounds and we celebrate those differences. We are looking for the best candidates for our open roles but do not expect applicants to meet every qualification in order to be considered. If you are excited about what you could accomplish at Cytokinetics and believe you can add value to our team we would love to hear from you.

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