Senior Commercial Brand and Access Partner - Associate Director (Pharmaceutical Marketing)

Location: Leatherhead, United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global operates in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sector.

What you will do

• Lead UK brand strategy, positioning, segmentation, targeting, and operational planning.
• Develop access strategies and expansion plans with Market Access and VAP teams.
• Design and deliver national and regional peer-to-peer meetings, speaker programmes, and omnichannel customer engagement.
• Own brand budgets, performance metrics, forecasting input, and investment recommendations.
• Lead external agencies and oversee promotional, customer-facing, and access-support materials.
• Align Sales, Medical, Market Access, Regulatory, Compliance, and field teams around execution priorities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences, Business, Marketing, or a related commercial discipline.
• 6+ years of progressive experience in brand marketing, product management, market access, or commercial leadership within the UK pharmaceutical or biotechnology sectors.
• Experience developing brand and access strategies, operational plans, customer programmes, and market access materials.
• Experience managing budgets, leading launches or growth initiatives, and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Proficiency with Veeva CRM, Veeva PromoMats, and marketing analytics platforms.
• Strong knowledge of the ABPI Code of Practice and compliant pharmaceutical promotion.

Nice to have

• Postgraduate qualifications in Marketing, such as CIM or an MBA, or in Health Policy.
• Experience with indication or line-extension plans and local market access implementation.

Culture & Benefits

• Cross-functional collaboration across commercial, medical, market access, regulatory, compliance, sales, and external agency teams.
• Focus on compliant, insight-led customer engagement and appropriate patient access.
• Use of face-to-face, virtual, and digital channels to support customer progression.