Merck KGaA Posted October 23, 2026

Brand Manager - Rare Tumors

Schiphol-Rijk, Noord-Holland, Netherlands Full time
Marketing Oncology Manager
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About this opportunity

Work Your Magic with us!

Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.

Your Role:

We are seeking a dedicated and results-driven Brand Manager to join our Rare Tumors team in the Netherlands. In this pivotal role, split roughly 60% marketing (office based, Schipol-Rijk) and 40% customer-facing (country-wide travel), you will take ownership of brand strategy execution while acting as the primary point of contact for Health Care Professionals (HCPs), orchestrating internal resources to ensure impactful, compliant customer engagement.

You will define requirements for and oversee the development of promotional and educational materials, ensuring consistency with brand strategy and customer needs, and lead the Medical Legal Regulatory (MLR) approval process end to end. You will coordinate the annual brand planning cycle in close collaboration with Medical, MAP/GAP, and other relevant functions, and monitor regulatory updates and competitor activity to keep materials compliant and competitive.

As the face of the brand to customers, you will promote the licensed portfolio through on-label scientific dialogue, organizing activities such as small group meetings and roundtable events, while working in close alignment with Medical. You will build in-depth knowledge of your accounts, driving systematic account planning that reflects a 360° view of clinical pathways, patient journeys, and payer considerations, and blending face-to-face with virtual engagement through our omnichannel tools.

You will also develop a strong understanding of local healthcare pathways and payer policies, identifying practical service or pathway improvement opportunities, and channel relevant field insights back into brand, medical, and access strategies. Fulfilling pharmacovigilance and quality assurance duties, and promptly escalating any drug safety or quality issues, is an integral part of this role.

This role is essential to the growth and success of the Rare Tumors franchise in the Netherlands. If you are passionate about bringing scientific rigor and customer focus together to make a high impact, we invite you to apply.

Who you are:

Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Business, or a related field.

Experience in a marketing role within a specialist care therapeutic area (oncology, neurology etc).

Experience working within hospital systems and complex stakeholder environments.

Strong scientific and therapeutic area knowledge (on-label), with sound judgment on when to hand over off-label, pipeline, or medical-only conversations to Medical Affairs.

Strong strategic influencing and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build lasting relationships with customers and key opinion leaders.

Excellent cross-functional coordination and collaboration skills, combined with genuine team-playing abilities and empathy.

Clear, impactful communicator with strategic and critical thinking, strong problem-solving, and solid project management skills.

Strong understanding of healthcare systems, reimbursement, and market access.

Able to travel 40% of the time, country-wide within The Netherlands with a valid driving licence.

Fluent in Dutch.

Desirable skills:

Business level or above proficiency in English.

Experience with rare diseases or tumors.

Exposure to Market Access.

Confident user of virtual and omnichannel engagement tools.

What we offer: We are curious minds that come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe that this variety drives excellence and innovation, strengthening our ability to lead in science and technology. We are committed to creating access and opportunities for all to develop and grow at your own pace. Join us in building a culture of inclusion and belonging that impacts millions and empowers everyone to work their magic and champion human progress!

Apply now and become a part of a team that is dedicated to Sparking Discovery and Elevating Humanity!

Job details

Seniority
Manager
Function
Marketing
Therapeutic area
Oncology
Location
Schiphol-Rijk, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Employment type
Full time

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Marketing role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 741 comparable Manager Marketing roles across 130 biopharma companies.

741Comparable roles tracked
653Currently active
130Companies hiring similar roles
56Countries represented

Salary context

179 of 741 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.

This roleSubject Not listed on this posting
Lowest disclosed · Associate Brand Manager II · AbbVie $78,500/yr – $141,000/yr
Highest disclosed · Senior Manager, Patient Marketing (Boston/Hybrid) (Boston, MA, US) · Servier $147/hr – $168/hr (≈ $305,760–$349,440/yr)
Peer group range $109,750 – $327,600 (median $183,250)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 741 comparable roles

United States291
China63
Japan52
India45
United Kingdom25
Germany23

+ 50 more countries

Seniority mix

741 of 741 peers have a known seniority level

Manager542
Associate Director174
Associate25

Therapeutic area mix

160 of 741 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Oncology68
Neuroscience24
Rare Disease14
Vaccines & Infectious Disease14
Cardiovascular / CVRM11
Immunology11
Dermatology & Aesthetics8
Respiratory5
Gastroenterology3
Ophthalmology2

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