【Alexion Japan】Associate Director, GMT Marketing, Genetic and Metabolic Disorders Business Unit
About this opportunity
Position Summary
The Associate Director, GMT Marketing, will be responsible for the all marketing activities of an upcoming new launch product in Japan working closely with Brand Lead and other stakeholders. S/he will be responsible for making sure the launch readiness and own the development and execution of strategy including disease awareness, patient diagnosis, branded communication, peer-to-peer programming, and non-personal promotion. This is a highly strategic role that requires seasoned commercial acumen, scientific curiosity, and growth mindset. The role also requires close collaboration with Sales, Thought Leader Liaison, Medical Affairs, and other internal functions.
Principal Responsibilities
Serve as a product manager and align the organization behind brand vision
Set the strategic direction for the brand and achieve its revenue targets
Continuously cultivate deep market and customer insights to enhance the strategy
Drive all aspects of marketing programs and tactics from design to execution
Effectively communicate with field sales teams to implement programs and tactics
Engage thought leaders for insights, speaking engagements, and other commercial initiatives
Define and evaluate relevant leading and performance indicators for the brand
Work on the long-term growth and development goals
Qualifications
Demonstrated expertise of marketing biopharma brand(s) in Japan
Prior launch experiences, preferably in rare disease and/or specialty care
Deep and well-rounded commercial experience in biopharma industry (e.g. sales, marketing, market research, new product planning)
Demonstrated expertise developing sound brand strategies grounded in customer insights
Executional and operational know-how on marketing programs
Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders
Scientific acumen and comfort with clinically oriented dialogue
Intellectual curiosity and growth mindset
Passion for making a positive contribution to the rare disease community
Fluency in Japanese required; proficiency in English is preferred
Education
Bachelor’s degree required
Advanced degree preferred (e.g. MBA, MS)
Date Posted
21-8月-2026
Closing Date
30-10月-2026
Alexion is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging where every single person can belong because of their uniqueness. The Company will not make decisions about employment, training, compensation, promotion, and other terms and conditions of employment based on race, color, religion, creed or lack thereof, sex, sexual orientation, age, ancestry, national origin, ethnicity, citizenship status, marital status, pregnancy, (including childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), parental status (including adoption or surrogacy), military status, protected veteran status, disability, medical condition, gender identity or expression, genetic information, mental illness or other characteristics protected by law. Alexion provides reasonable accommodations to meet the needs of candidates and employees. To begin an interactive dialogue with Alexion regarding an accommodation, please contact accommodations@Alexion.com . Alexion participates in E-Verify.
Job details
How this role compares
Computed from every other active Marketing role in our database, not just this employer's listings.
We currently track 738 comparable Associate Director Marketing roles across 123 biopharma companies.
Salary context
186 of 738 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)
Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.
Where these roles are based
Top locations among the 738 comparable roles
+ 50 more countries
Seniority mix
738 of 738 peers have a known seniority level
Therapeutic area mix
157 of 738 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden
Similar opportunities
The closest matches from our peer group, ranked by how similar they are, not how well you'd qualify for them -- treat this as market context, not a guaranteed shortlist; a weak match is labeled as one below.
Notify me about similar jobs
Get an email when we spot other openings like this one – same job function, comparable seniority, roles you'd actually want to see.
Or follow a whole field: get every new Marketing job in Japan, and choose locations and companies.
How we calculate "similar"
No black box, no LLM guesswork: a deterministic score built from four normalized attributes. Here's this role's own peer group at different match levels, so you can see the mechanism, not just the result.
Every comparison starts from the same 100-point budget: 25 for working in the same function, 40 for the same therapeutic area, 20 for the same or adjacent seniority, 15 for the same country. A dimension we can't confirm on both sides contributes nothing, never a guess, never a free pass.
0 points, never a partial guess. A role we know almost nothing about beyond its function bottoms out at 25%; it never inflates to 100% just because there's little to compare against. Seniority uses a defined ladder (Associate → Manager → Associate Director → Senior → Principal → Director → Senior Director → Executive/VP) so "Director" and "Senior Director" count as adjacent, but "Director" and "Executive/VP" do not.