Senior Director, Patient Marketing Excellence Lead

About argenx As the immunology innovation company, argenx develops first-in-class medicines that change the course of disease and set a new direction for patients waiting for a breakthrough.​ ​ Entrepreneurial Science shapes how we work: challenging conventions, pursuing bold pathways over conventional ones through the power of co-creation, and working alongside scientists, physicians and academic researchers with shared ambition — changing outcomes.​ ​ Our purpose is to move immunology science faster than thought possible for patients who need progress now.​

argenx

United in our commitment to improve the lives of patients

OncologyAutoimmune diseasesRare DiseasesAntibody based medicinesImmunotherapyMyasthenia GravisImmunologyPemphigus VulgarisImmune ThrombocytopeniaAcute Myeloid Leukemia

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argenx.com

1,001-5,000 employees

Biotechnology Research

Boston, MA

2008

Public Company

132k LinkedIn followers

Raised $3.8B

• Set the vision, priorities, and capability agenda for the Patient Marketing & Engagement Strategy Community as portfolio and patient needs evolve.
• Build and accelerate expertise with focus on patient engagement, patient commercial strategy (including early pipeline), patient marketing, and patient adherence, ensuring knowledge depth, prioritization, and effective cross-functional collaboration.
• Proactively identify capability, talent, and capacity gaps and recommend where the organization should build, hire, or bring in external expertise.
• Partner with the Head of Patient Marketing & Engagement Strategy on resourcing, talent mapping, and organizational decisions.
• Ensure Patient Marketing, Engagement Strategy, and emerging areas of expertise continue to evolve with the market, patient needs and preferences, portfolio, and business dynamics.
• Work with cross-functional capability leaders to strengthen standards, tools, measurement, and best practices within marketing disciplines and across the enterprise.
• Build new and/or deeper expertise where needed, including emerging patient populations, device and delivery needs, patient experience, and other cross-portfolio priorities.
• Scale approaches, ways of working, and learnings across the portfolio so teams can build on what works.
• Shape and develop emerging talent within marketing as a flexible, high-performing team deployed against the portfolio’s highest-priority marketing needs.
• Own resource prioritization and deployment, matching the right skills and level of experience to each assignment while balancing capacity and continuity.
• Build differentiated expertise across early pipeline, launch excellence, marketing, omnichannel media, customer engagement, performance optimization, agency management, and other priority marketing disciplines.
• Raise the standard of marketing excellence by building strategic discipline, marketing skills, and consistent quality across the team.
• Keep the Patient Marketing & Engagement Community current with advances in AI, automation, data and analytics, technology, and external marketing practices; translate relevant innovation into practical ways of working.
• Anticipate future demand and evolve the team’s skills, staffing, and external support before portfolio needs arise.
• Measure impact and refine the deployment model based on business results, stakeholder feedback, capacity, and talent development.
• Talent and Leadership development
• Build leadership depth and succession pathways through coaching, mentorship, and clear development plans.
• Create meaningful assignments and cross-portfolio experiences that build both versatile patient marketers and deep specialists.
• Identify future skill and capability needs and develop or recruit talent to close critical gaps.
• Create a culture of patient focus, accountability, collaboration, learning, and marketing excellence.
• Partner with indication and cross-functional leaders to translate business priorities into clear marketing capability and resource needs.
• Clarify how Indication Strategy Teams, Marketing, PSP, Patient Advocacy, and cross-functional partners work with patient marketing, so expectations, decisions and handoffs are clear.
• Address competing resource and capability needs across the portfolio and escalate major trade-offs when needed.
• Track Patient Marketing effectiveness through practical measures of capability strength, resource deployment, talent development, and business impact.

• Strategic and organizational leadership: Ability to set a clear direction for a multi-capability organization, translate portfolio needs into priorities, and scale as the business grows.
• Capability building: Demonstrated ability to build and strengthen marketing capabilities, identifying where expertise, standards, tools, talent, or new approaches are needed to meet evolving patient and business needs.
• Modern marketing expertise: Strong understanding of marketing across launch, growth, and lifecycle stages, with the judgment to recognize emerging practices and capabilities that can strengthen patient marketing.
• Fluency in AI-enabled marketing, automation, agile ways of working, reusable and modular approaches, customer analytics, with the ability to translate new capabilities into practical opportunities to improve marketing effectiveness, speed, and scale.
• Experience leading agencies, budgets, workplans, vendors, and complex marketing initiatives with strong quality and performance discipline.
• Portfolio and resource prioritization: Strong ability to assess demand, capacity, skills, seniority, timing, and business value and make clear resource trade-offs across competing priorities.
• Talent and leadership development: Strong people leader and coach who can develop capability leaders and marketers across levels of seniority, build differentiated expertise, and create meaningful pathways for growth.
• Cross-functional influence: Ability to build trusted relationships with cross-functional leaders, navigate competing priorities, and align teams across a complex matrix without relying on formal authority.
• Business judgment: Ability to synthesize patient, market, portfolio, performance, and resource needs into clear decisions and practical recommendations.
• Change leadership: Ability to lead through growth, ambiguity, and organizational change, bringing clarity to new structures, capabilities, and ways of working.
• Communication and leadership presence: Strong communicator who can make complex issues clear, articulate trade-offs, and create alignment with senior leaders, teams, and partners.
• BA/BS required; advanced degree in business, marketing, healthcare, life sciences, or a related field preferred.
• Approximately 12–15+ years of progressive commercial or marketing experience, including significant leadership experience in complex, fast-paced organizations.
• Significant people leadership experience, including leading experienced marketers and/or functional leaders and developing senior talent.
• Demonstrated experience building, scaling, or evolving marketing capabilities, teams, or organizational models, rather than solely operating within established structures.
• Broad marketing experience across multiple disciplines, such as brand strategy, launch marketing, patient/customer engagement, omnichannel marketing, performance optimization, agency management, or related areas.
• Experience working across multiple brands, indications, therapeutic areas, lifecycle stages, or portfolio priorities and adapting capabilities and resources as business needs change.
• Demonstrated experience making resource and talent deployment decisions across competing priorities; experience leading a shared or flexible marketing model strongly preferred.
• Experience working with senior cross-functional leaders in a matrixed organization and leading work that spans organizational boundaries.
• Experience in patient marketing, patient engagement, patient support/adherence, or other patient-focused commercial disciplines strongly preferred.
• Pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, or another highly regulated industry experience strongly preferred.
• Travel based on business needs (30%).
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• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term and long-term incentive programs, subject to the terms and conditions of those plans and applicable policies. It also includes a comprehensive benefits package, including but not limited to retirement savings plans, health benefits and other benefits subject to the terms of the applicable plans and program guidelines.

• Retirement savings plans
• Health benefits