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Reporting to the Head of Sarcoma Marketing, you’ll lead ongoing Brand planning, guide integrated marketing for healthcare professionals and patients, and develop talent within the Sarcoma Franchise. This full-time, permanent opportunity combines strategic ownership with hands-on execution and cross-functional leadership.\nYour Impact\nOwn brand strategy and competitive readiness: Align cross-functional partners around comprehensive pre-launch, launch, and promotional plans.\nConnect strategy to execution: Deliver integrated campaigns across audiences and platforms, mobilizing commercial teams around clear priorities and customer outreach.\nLead and develop talent: Oversee product marketing and coach one direct report to support commercial success and future franchise growth.\nShape lifecycle planning: Represent Commercial alongside the product program team and Medical Affairs, contributing to studies, publications, and key opinion leader engagement.\n What You Bring\nBachelor’s or Master’s degree with 12+ years of such experience.\nRequired rare disease and/or oncology and launch experience, with demonstrated commercial success and progressively greater responsibility.\nExtensive knowledge of the U.S. medical, regulatory, and legal review process.\nExcellent people-management skills and experience.\nPreferred: MBA strongly preferred; cross-functional commercial experience, such as sales or market access, is a plus.\n Deciphera is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Actual compensation packages will depend on various factors, including, but not limited to depth of experience, education, skillset, overall performance and/or location. The estimated base salary for this range is $235,000 - $260,000.\nDeciphera believes in providing a competitive compensation and benefits package to all employees. Our base salary is just one component of Deciphera’s competitive total rewards strategy that also includes annual performance bonus, a long-term incentive plan, full range of benefits and other incentive compensation plans (if applicable)\nBenefits:\nCompetitive salary and annual bonus.\nComprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan with company match, and more.\nGenerous parental leave and family planning benefits.\nOutstanding culture and opportunities for personal and professional growth.\nEQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY INFORMATION\nDeciphera is committed to equal employment opportunity and values diversity. To ensure that we comply with reporting requirements, we invite you complete the confidential survey at the end of this application. Providing this information is optional. It will not be accessible or used in the hiring process, and has no effect on your opportunity for employment. 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