Head of Strategic Marketing

Owen Mumford are looking to hire a Head of Strategic Marketing, could this be your next role?

**Scope**:
The Head of Strategic Marketing takes overall responsibility for the commercial input to new development products and life cycle management for OMPS, and for the communication of the benefits of the existing and new products in the OMPS range. Also serves as a member of the OMPS Leadership Team, and a key contributor to overall corporate communications.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Provide strategic marketing leadership for _Pharmaceutical Services_ products (including devices and service products).
- Develop and maintain marketing plans for all products including those in development and on-market (including legacy devices). Ensure they are developed in a timely manner, clearly articulated & adopting a consistent format across all products, supported by referenced evidence wherever possible
- Provide commercial leadership in launch planning.
- Ensure the Product Development Manager and other commercial stakeholders fully understand applicable plans and their ramifications.
- Through the communications manager, deliver core product materials and other marketing communications necessary to support and maximise sales activities.
- Develop and implement best practice.
- Generate proposals for the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and collaborate in the planning process.
- Identify, define, communicate and champion the customer need in a way that enables stakeholders to understand the market opportunity and maximises the chance for R&D to generate relevant innovative solutions
- Liaise with peers across the business to ensure potential opportunities for the wider business are considered and maximised. Be the _Pharmaceutical Services_ link with technical teams supporting them where appropriate in sub-contracted developments.

**To be successful in this role, you will need**:

- Strategic product marketing experience
- Experience within design and development process for regulated devices
- Experience working internationally
- Working with devices in pharmaceutical company or selling bespoke devices into such an organisation
- Self-administered medical devices with experience in self-injection and associated primary containers
- Educated to degree level in a technical or commercial discipline

**What will we give you?**

You will be joining a successful, privately owned industry leader who are constantly innovating and looking to improve lives, empower patients and relieve the pressure on healthcare professionals. We invest heavily in our staff and offer a competitive salary and benefits package along with the opportunity to develop within the business. Additional benefits include:

- Remote working - up to 2 days per week
- Flexi time - covering 37.5 hours per week with core working hours of 9:30am-12 Noon and 2:00pm-4:00pm (3:30pm on Fridays)
- 25 days annual leave (with the opportunity to earn loyalty days with length of service)
- Holiday purchase scheme (up to 10 days purchased per holiday year)
- Enhanced Family Friendly Policies
- Enhanced Sickness Pay
- Group Life Insurance
- BUPA Private Medical Care
- Wellbeing initiatives and support
- Annual company bonus
- Free parking, free tea & coffee and free fruit

**About us**:
Owen Mumford is a global leader in medical device design and manufacture. For almost 70 years we have been inventing life-enhancing devices that are tested and proven to deliver an industry benchmark in the safety, accuracy and comfort of medication administration. This strong heritage is the springboard for our future as we help to shape the progress of the healthcare industry by bringing pioneering concepts and solutions to life in an accountable and sustainable way. Headquartered in the UK, Owen Mumford is a family-run business with a large global presence across North America, EMEA and APAC.