Associate Director, Enzyme Therapy Business Unit Marketing – Pompe
Location: London, United Kingdom
Workstyle: Hybrid
Who We Are
BioMarin is a leading rare disease biotechnology company focused on genetically defined conditions.
Guided by our purpose to develop medicines that make a profound impact on people’s lives, our global teams have delivered a portfolio of therapies since our founding in 1997. Our revolutionary treatments for conditions like achondroplasia (the most common form of dwarfism), PKU (phenylketonuria), CLN2, a form of Batten disease, and a number of forms of MPS (mucopolysaccharidosis) offer new possibilities for patients and families who previously had few, if any, available options. More recently, with the close of the Amicus acquisition, our portfolio has expanded to include therapies for Fabry disease and Pompe disease, expanding our ability to reach more people living with rare genetic conditions.
Our success comes from our unwavering commitment to excellence, our deep understanding of patient needs, our scientific expertise, and our world-class manufacturing capabilities. At the heart of BioMarin is a dedicated team of the brightest minds in the industry working together to deliver innovative therapies to patients and families around the world.
About Commercial
Be part of the worldwide infrastructure that gets our drugs to underserved patients around the world. Our global sales force solidifies BioMarin’s commercial presence in the United States and Europe and is rapidly growing in other regions, such as South America, EuMEA, and Asia-Pacific.
Associate Director, Enzyme Therapy Business Unit Marketing – Pompe
London – Hybrid role (2 days per week onsite)
Closing date: 19th June 2026
Position Summary
The Associate Director, ET BU Marketing – Pompe, will play a key role in supporting the development and execution of the global marketing strategy for Pombiliti + Opfolda, a critical rare disease asset within the Enzyme Business Unit.
Reporting to the ET BU Pompe Marketing Lead, this role will help translate global brand strategy into high-quality campaigns, materials, market engagement activities and executional tools across US, JAPAN, EUCAN and ICON markets. The role will work closely with cross-functional colleagues, country teams, agency partners and external vendors to ensure global initiatives are insight-led, locally relevant, compliant and delivered with impact.
Following the acquisition of Amicus by BioMarin, this role will support the integration of Pompe brand activities, assets and ways of working into the BioMarin operating model, helping to maintain business continuity, executional momentum and effective collaboration across teams.
Key Responsibilities
1. Support global brand strategy, planning and performance
- Support in the development and execution of the global marketing strategy for Pombiliti + Opfolda, ensuring alignment with Enzyme Business Unit priorities and market needs.
- Contribute to the global cross-functional brand planning process by gathering market inputs, supporting strategic planning activities and translating priorities into actionable initiatives, materials and execution plans.
- Support tracking of brand plan progress, KPIs, timelines and key deliverables, helping to identify risks, opportunities and areas requiring action or escalation.
- Monitor market trends, customer insights, competitor activity and emerging evidence to support strategic decision-making and ongoing optimisation of global brand activities.
2. Co-create campaigns, materials and customer engagement initiatives
- Co-create global branded and unbranded campaigns, materials and customer engagement initiatives in partnership with the Pompe Marketing Lead, agency partners, cross-functional colleagues and key markets.
- Ensure campaigns and materials are insight-led, strategically aligned, evidence-based, compliant and adaptable across markets.
- Support the development of global messaging, digital content, training materials, congress assets and other customer-facing tools that strengthen differentiation and support behaviour change.
- Partner with country stakeholders to understand local market needs, implementation barriers and customer dynamics, ensuring global outputs are practical, relevant and executable at local level.
3. Lead market engagement forums and cross-market collaboration
- Lead regular marketing engagement forums, working groups and implementation meetings to support campaign development, gather feedback, share best practice and enable effective rollout of global brand initiatives.
- Build strong working relationships with key country commercial stakeholders across markets to support alignment, local implementation and two-way sharing of insights.
- Capture and synthesise market feedback to inform campaign optimisation, resource development, brand planning and strategic recommendations.
- Contribute to best-practice sharing across Enzyme BU commercial teams, identifying opportunities to leverage tools, learnings and ways of working across brands and, where appropriate, the broader BioMarin portfolio.
4. Support external stakeholder engagement and insight generation
- Support the planning and delivery of external stakeholder engagement activities, including advisory boards, congress activities, expert forums and other strategic initiatives.
- Work with internal and external partners to ensure stakeholder engagement activities are well planned, compliant, strategically relevant and delivered to a high standard.
- Capture insights from external experts, patient advocacy stakeholders, congresses and market interactions, translating outputs into clear summaries and actionable recommendations.
- Support the development of materials and briefing documents for external engagement activities, ensuring alignment with global brand objectives and governance requirements.
5. Manage agencies, projects and operational delivery
- Manage day-to-day relationships with agency partners and external vendors, ensuring clear briefs, high-quality outputs, strong project management and delivery against agreed timelines and budgets.
- Coordinate the development, review and rollout of global marketing assets, ensuring effective collaboration across internal teams, agencies and markets.
- Maintain strong project governance across key workstreams, including timelines, budgets, status reporting, risks, approvals and next steps.
- Support efficient ways of working across the global brand team, helping to improve planning discipline, communication and executional excellence.
6. Ensure compliance, governance and review excellence
- Ensure global marketing activities and materials are developed in line with internal policies, regulatory requirements, legal standards and compliance expectations.
- Manage key marketing materials through Veeva review, and other governance processes, ensuring submissions are complete, strategically clear, compliant and fit for purpose.
- Support documentation, asset management and knowledge transfer as Pompe activities transition into BioMarin systems and processes.
Requirements
- Minimum of 5+ years’ experience in pharmaceutical, biotech or healthcare marketing, commercial roles, or healthcare agency strategy, ideally with exposure to rare diseases, specialty medicines or highly specialised therapeutic areas.
- Experience supporting global, regional or multi-market brand strategy, campaign development, materials creation and implementation planning.
- Strong understanding of marketing execution, customer engagement, multichannel materials and cross-functional project delivery within a regulated pharmaceutical environment.
- Experience working with country teams, cross-functional partners and agency/vendor partners to develop and implement marketing initiatives.
- Ability to build strong relationships with market stakeholders, gather insights, lead working groups and translate feedback into practical actions.
- Experience supporting congresses, advisory boards, external stakeholder activities or other insight-generation forums would be advantageous.
- Strong project management, communication and organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams, timelines and stakeholders.
- Good understanding of medical, legal and regulatory review processes, with experience supporting materials through approval workflows.
- Collaborative, proactive and solution-oriented, with the ability to work effectively in a matrixed, evolving and fast-paced organisation.
Role Logistics / Working Model
- This is a global role requiring collaboration across US, JAPAN, EUCAN and ICON teams and flexibility to work across multiple time zones.
- The role will be on a hybrid basis, with travel required for selected internal meetings, congresses, market engagement activities, agency meetings and external stakeholder forums.
- Attendance at the London and/or Dublin office may be required for key brand planning meetings, team engagements, governance discussions, integration activities and cross-functional workshops.
Note: This description is not intended to be all-inclusive, or a limitation of the duties of the position. It is intended to describe the general nature of the job that may include other duties as assumed or assigned.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.