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Associate Director Global Trademark Development

Merck

$139,600 - $219,700
Dec 6, 2025
Rahway, NJ, US
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The Global Trademark Development (GTD) team in Human Health (HH) Marketing needs to drive, manage, and implement the end-to-end process for development of brand name trademarks to support critical launches, ensuring adherence to internal processes and regulatory guidelines.

Requirements

  • Minimum 8 years biopharmaceutical or equivalent experience.
  • A minimum of 2 years of experience in pharmaceutical brand name development including working knowledge of regulatory guidelines and trademark legal registration processes.
  • Experience interacting with internal regulatory colleagues in filing documents with health authorities.
  • Process optimization experience to best deliver work in accordance with timelines and regulations.
  • Ability to develop relationships with external vendors and industry experts.
  • Strong leadership, problem solving, teamwork, analytical, written, and verbal communication skills.
  • Proficient presentation skills.

Responsibilities

  • Leads the development of worldwide naming strategy for Human Health assets to optimize and obtain trademark approval in time for health authority submissions.
  • Leads regulatory submission and rejection strategies for global, regional, and local brand names to ensure timely approvals and partners with internal regulatory colleagues in preparing trademark submission documents to health authorities.
  • Manages the multi-year process for the generation, development, and evaluation of global trademark candidates for all Human Health pipeline and business development assets.
  • Partners with trademark attorneys to ensure brand names are legally viable.
  • Ensures patient safety-based principles are applied to all aspects of name development.
  • Synthesizes evaluation results to provide final name recommendations to the commercial team and upper management.
  • Builds knowledge of country-specific regulations related to trademark development to become a subject matter expert.

Other

  • Bachelor's degree (B.S/B.A)
  • Experience with collaborating, influencing without authority, and working successfully in building consensus with Marketing and other teams and the ability to successfully work across geographic boundaries.
  • Project management, including the ability to adapt to changing priorities and manage multiple projects simultaneously at various stages of completeness and complexity.
  • 10% Travel Requirements
  • Hybrid Work Model