Director, Strategy & Marketing

Director, Strategy & Marketing Greater Philadelphia Herspiegel is a global life sciences consultancy that guides pharmaceutical and biotech companies through their most decisive moments—powering commercial success and expanding patient access. From early asset strategy to launch readiness and market optimization, we help clients navigate complexity and seize opportunity. Our integrated approach brings together scientific insight, evidence strategy, deep market intuition, and executional precision to ensure brands are built to lead. This role within our Commercial Strategy practice is to direct complex client challenges. You've spent some of your career in pharmaceutical marketing, ideal for a marketing professional who is looking to leverage their experience to partner with our clients to identify insights, solve commercial challenges & seize market opportunities on the brand side, at an agency/ consulting firms, or both, and you know what it takes to move a brand forward in a highly regulated environment. You'll serve as a strategic leader supporting brand or omnichannel teams, build & execute market development plans and help marketing teams think innovatively around new ways of operating. You know how to partner with agencies, brief creative effectively, and help ensure all stakeholders stay focused on strategic imperatives. You stay close to the evolving landscape and can translate emerging trends into practical implications for pharma marketers. You can structure a problem, think in frameworks, and turn complex thinking into polished, persuasive deliverables: a crisp business case, a brand strategy narrative, an executive-ready recommendation. You'll cultivate lasting client relationships built on trust, accountability, delivery and candor, recognize opportunities to grow those relationships organically, and contribute to the health of the practice through the doors that open from delivering high-quality work consistently. You'll also invest in the people around you. This is a role for someone who genuinely wants to teach and finds energy in helping junior consultants sharpen their thinking. You'll help shape how we build capabilities as a practice and contribute to where our Strategy & Marketing team is headed. We're looking for someone in a growth chapter: still hungry to do great work, eager to build client equity, and excited about developing the next generation of talent. If you're looking to manage from a distance, this isn't it. If you want to lead, do, coach, and grow, it might be exactly right. What you bring: at least 10 years of professional experience, with a minimum of 5 years in pharma marketing, brand management, or consulting, agency/communications roles. You don't need to be taught how pharmaceutical marketing works. You're here to show how it can be done. Our Directors are client-facing strategic leaders who partner with biopharma brand and marketing leadership to shape strategy, drive execution, and elevate brand performance. They lead high-impact engagements, delivering insights that strengthen client relationships and commercial outcomes. Across diverse therapeutic areas and product lifecycles, Directors bring industry expertise and adaptability, advancing brand strategy, commercialization, and cross-functional leadership. Responsibilities may include:
Lead client engagement with biopharma brand and marketing stakeholders, independently driving strategic presentations, project plans, and executive-ready updates
Own development of high-impact deliverables, including brand strategy, commercial launch plans, market landscapes, and business cases
Direct end-to-end project execution, setting workstreams, aligning stakeholders, and leading teams to deliver against objectives
Independently translate data and market research into actionable brand and commercialization insights (e.g., forecasting, segmentation, sample strategy)
Proactively identify and shape new business opportunities within existing and prospective client accounts
Build upon expertise in therapeutic areas and pharmaceutical marketing to drive client impact and thought leadership
Own delivery against scope, timelines, and commercial objectives, ensuring high-quality, on-time execution Requirements
Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or advanced life science degree preferred
At least 5 years relevant experience (preference from consulting, Manager/Sr. Manager level brand leads, Account service directors from agency or consulting settings.
Project management (including spreadsheet and database management, agile project management methodologies)
Quantitative analysis and visualization (including Excel, Google Sheets, SAS, Stata); program management
Contract development
Industry compliance & risk management
Budget development, budget management, and forecasting
Customer relationship management
Stakeholder analysis and stakeholder engagement
Policy and procedure development;
Process optimization and process improvement
Measurement, goal-setting and KPIs
Understanding of integrated activities including but not limited to digital health & omnichannel
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Self-motivated, highly detail-oriented, and extremely well organized
Candidates should have desire for an engaging, fast-paced career in dynamic, growing organization
Ability to manage one or more projects simultaneously Additional Information: Frequent travel (>25%) to client locations, industry events, as well as team in-person working sessions is required. Herspiegel companies have been recognized as a Top Life Science Consulting Provider, Best Life Science Commercialization Consultancy Firm, UK’s Best Places to Work, UK & Ireland's Top 50 Inspiring Workplaces, silver sustainability rating by EcoVadis, and Best Healthcare and Wellbeing Benefits. Learn more at www.herspiegel.com .