Executive Director, Market Intelligence

About Us

Founded in 1908, Merz is a successful, family-owned specialty healthcare company with a rich history.

As a leading global aesthetics business, our award-winning portfolio of injectables, devices, and skincare products empowers healthcare professionals to enhance confidence through aesthetic medicine.

Our purpose is to fuel confidence by helping people look better, feel better, and live better.

We believe you do not have to choose between living life and making a living.

Live your best life with Merz Aesthetics.

A Brief Overview

The Executive Director, Market Intelligence is accountable for establishing and leading the global market intelligence agenda for Merz Aesthetics, integrating competitive intelligence, consumer and HCP insights, market research, forecasting, global pricing guidance, and external market trend interpretation into the Global Marketing strategy.

The role serves as an organization-wide expert and strategic advisor to the Chief Marketing Officer, Global Marketing, regional commercial leadership, and the Global Leadership Team by translating complex internal and external market signals into actionable strategic recommendations that guide long-term business direction, portfolio decisions, launch readiness, pricing governance, and performance management.The Executive Director is expected to anticipate market, competitive, customer, regulatory, and financial dynamics that may materially affect the business and to guide senior stakeholders through ambiguity, trade-offs, and enterprise-level decision points.

The role delivers broad, sustainable business impact by shaping functional strategy, and enabling major strategic choices.

What You Will Do


* Competitive Intelligence:
+ Establish and lead the global competitive intelligence strategy, including governance, standards, analytical frameworks, and executive-ready interpretation of competitor financial performance, product development activity, launches, commercial strategy, pricing behavior, market access developments, customer dynamics, and other external signals that may affect enterprise strategy.
+ Translate competitive developments into strategic scenarios, implications, and recommended actions for the Chief Marketing Officer, Global Marketing, regional commercial leadership, and the Global Leadership Team.
+ Own quarterly and ad hoc competitive briefings that identify material risks, opportunities, and choices requiring executive alignment.


* Strategic Preparation:
+ Own and institutionalize global strategic preparedness processes, including cross-functional war-gaming, scenario planning, launch threat assessment, and response planning for material competitive, market, portfolio, and customer shifts.

Lead senior cross-functional teams across regions, Medical Affairs, R&D, Innovation, Finance, and Marketing to evaluate strategic alternatives, quantify business implications, and recommend enterprise-level response o...