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The Associate Director, Category Lead - Marketing & Sales Procurement is responsible for leading strategic sourcing, category management, supplier relationship management, and procurement initiatives across Alkermes' commercial organization. This role serves as the primary procurement business partner to Marketing, Sales, Market Access, Commercial Operations, Patient Services, and related functions, ensuring procurement strategies align with organizational priorities and commercial objectives.Â
The position is responsible for the development and execution of global category strategies across a broad portfolio of commercial spend, including advertising and creative agencies, media planning and buying, digital marketing, market research, data and analytics, conferences and events, promotional materials, patient support services, commercial outsourcing, sales enablement solutions, and related commercial services.Â
This role requires close collaboration with senior business stakeholders, Finance, Legal, Compliance, and external suppliers to identify opportunities, optimize investments, drive innovation, mitigate risk, and deliver measurable business value. The successful candidate will leverage deep category expertise, commercial acumen, and strategic sourcing capabilities to support Alkermes' commercialization goals and growth strategy.Â
Why join Team Alkermes?
Alkermes applies its decades of deep neuroscience expertise to develop medicines designed to help people living with complex and difficult-to-treat psychiatric and neurological disorders. A global biopharmaceutical company, headquartered in Ireland with U.S. locations in Massachusetts and Ohio, we seek to make a meaningful difference in the way people manage their diseases. We have a portfolio of proprietary commercial products for the treatment of alcohol dependence, opioid dependence, schizophrenia, bipolar I disorder and narcolepsy, and a pipeline of clinical and preclinical candidates in development for various psychiatric and neurological disorders.
We are proud to have been recognized as an employer of choice by many national organizations. In 2024 and 2025, we were certified as a Great Place to Work in the U.S. and named one of Massachusetts’ Top Places to Work by the Boston Globe, a Best Place to Work in Greater Cincinnati by the Cincinnati Business Courier and recognized as a Best Place to Work in BioPharma by Fortune Magazine.Â
Alkermes, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any qualified applicant or employee because of race, creed, color, age, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender expression and identity, disability, genetic information, veteran status, military status, application for military service or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal law. Alkermes also complies with all work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA.  Alkermes is an E-Verify employer.
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