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Director, Marketing Operations


Job Location:

Princeton, NJ - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 203000 - 253000
Posted: 5 September 2026 (8 days ago)
Application Deadline: 3 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About Summit:

Summit Therapeutics Inc. is a biopharmaceutical oncology company with a mission focused on improving quality of life increasing potential duration of life and resolving serious unmet medical needs. At Summit we believe in building a team of world class professionals who are passionate about this mission and it is our people who drive this mission to reality. Summits core values include integrity passion for excellence purposeful urgency collaboration and our commitment to people. Our employees are truly the heart and soul of our culture and they are invaluable in shaping our journey toward excellence.

Summits team is inspired to touch and help change lives through Summits clinical studies in the field of oncology. Summit has multiple global Phase 3 clinical studies including:

Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)

  • HARMONi: Phase 3 clinical study which was intended to evaluate ivonescimab combined with chemotherapy compared to placebo plus chemotherapy in patients with EGFR-mutated locally advanced or metastatic non-squamous NSCLC who were previously treated with a 3rd generation EGFR TKI.

  • HARMONi-3: Phase 3 clinical study which is intended to evaluate ivonescimab combined with chemotherapy compared to pembrolizumab combined with chemotherapy in patients with first-line metastatic NSCLC.

  • HARMONi-7: Phase 3 clinical study which is intended to evaluate ivonescimab monotherapy compared to pembrolizumab monotherapy in patients with first-line metastatic NSCLC.

Colorectal Cancer (CRC)

  • HARMONi-GI3: Phase 3 clinical study intended to evaluate ivonescimab in combination with chemotherapy compared with bevacizumab plus chemotherapy.

Ivonescimab is an investigational therapy not presently approved by any regulatory authority other than Chinas National Medical Products Administration (NMPA). Summit is headquartered in Miami Florida and has additional offices in California New Jersey the UK and Ireland.

Location:Princeton NJ onsite

Overview of Role:

The Director Marketing Operations partners with the marketing leaders to operationalize their initiatives taking the plans Marketing sets and turning them into work that is executable compliant measurable and on budget.

The Director MarketingOperationssupportsthe Market Access team by running their materials through the promotional review committee (PRC) and handling the production and distribution behind them owns meetings and events coordination for the commercial organization owns budget management for marketingoperationsa

Role and Responsibilities:

  • Ownsmarketingoperationalinfrastructureincludingthe promotional review committee(PRC)workflow and the content lifecycle behind it promotional material fulfillment and warehousing speaker program and event operations meetings and events coordination across the commercial organization agency and vendor management budget management and marketing performance reporting.
  • Partner with the marketing leaders to operationalize their omnichannel initiatives across email web digital and field channels including campaign build deployment scheduling and the operational support behind each launch working from the plans and content Marketing provides.
  • Own speaker program operations in support of the programs Marketing designs including the speaker program management platform speaker contracting workflow and vendor management with compliance built into the process.
  • Own events exhibits and sponsorship operations for the events Marketing and the field commit to including the management platform vendor relationships and cross-team coordination.
  • Own promotional material fulfillment including the warehouse and fulfillment vendor print production drop shipping to the field and inventory control.
  • Lead promotional review and content operations partnering cross-functionally with Marketing Medical Legal Regulatory Compliance Commercial and external agencies to ensuretimely compliant review and approval of promotional and market access materials.
  • Establish andoptimizecommercial operating processes including SOPs workflows capacity planning training and performance metrics to improve efficiency reduce rework and accelerate time to market.
  • Oversee marketing technology and content management capabilities serving as the business owner for platforms supporting promotional review digital asset management marketing automation and commercial engagement. Partner with technology teams to define requirements implement enhancements and drive user adoption.
  • Develop commercial performance reporting and insights partnering with Commercial Analytics and Sales Operations to establish KPIsmonitorperformance and support data-driven marketing and field execution.
  • Lead commercial meetings events and advisory board operations overseeing planning vendors budgetslogistics and execution while ensuringappropriate complianceand governance.
  • Manage marketingoperationsvendors and agency relationships including strategic partner management contracts scopes of work performance and operational delivery.
  • Own marketingoperationsfinancial management including annual budgeting forecasting spend tracking vendor commitments and financial reporting in partnership with Finance.
  • Provide strategic operational leadership across the commercial organizationidentifyinggapsestablishingscalable processes managing cross-functional priorities and ensuring activitiescomply withapplicable regulations company policies and legal requirements.

Manage the end-to-end PRC process including quality control and compliance-readiness review of promotional materials; intake submission version control agenda development meeting facilitation approval tracking reviewer feedback incorporation distribution andexpirationwithin Veeva VaultPromoMatsor equivalentsystemsAllother duties as assigned

Experience Education and Specialized Knowledge and Skills:

  • Bachelors degree in Business Marketing ora relatedfield. MBA preferred.
  • Minimum of10 years of marketing operations commercial operations or commercial content operations experience within pharmaceuticals biotechnology or life sciences including 2 years of people or vendor team leadership.
  • Demonstratedexpertisecoordinating promotional review committee or medicallegaland regulatory review processes in a regulated pharmaceutical environment isrequired.
  • Hands-on experience withmarketing technology platformsVeeva VaultPromoMatsor an equivalent electronic review and content management system isrequired.
  • Working knowledge of FDA promotional regulations and OPDP submission requirements including Form 2253.
  • Experience writing andmaintainingstandard operating procedures for commercial content and training users on them.
  • Familiarity with modular content strategy digital asset management and content taxonomy.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead without direct authority across Marketing Medical Legal Regulatory and agency partners.
  • Experience standing up a promotional review workflow and managing content through review approval distribution andexpiration.
  • Demonstrated experience planning and executing commercial meetings and events including national sales meetings congresses and exhibits with responsibility for budget and on-site execution.
  • Experience supporting a market access or payer team including moving payer-facing materials through a promotional or medical review process.
  • Demonstrated experience owning and managing a departmental budget including purchase order management accruals invoice reconciliation and monthly variance reporting to Finance.
  • Working knowledge of compliance and regulatory requirements governing pharmaceutical promotion including Sunshine Act reporting obligations tied to speaker programs.
  • Product launch experience preferred.
  • Oncology experiencepreferred.

This is the pay for this position

Pay Transparency

$203000 - $253000 USD

Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate including but not limited to skill set depth of experience certifications and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor. The total compensation package for this position may also include bonus stock benefits and/or other applicable variable compensation.

Summit does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact Summits Talent Acquisition team atto obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to Summit.

Summit Therapeutics an Equal Opportunity Employer and takes pride in creating and maintaining diverse environment. We do not discriminate in recruitment hiring training or promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race color religion gender national origin age sexual orientation marital or veteran status disability or any other legally protected status.


Required Experience:

Director