Director, Patient Strategy & Marketing, Alixorexton
Alkermes · Waltham
The Director, Patient Strategy & Marketing is a key member of the Alixorexton Brand Team, responsible for leading patient strategy, disease education, and patient marketing initiatives across narcolepsy and idiopathic hypersomnia (IH).
Reporting to the Senior Director, Alixorexton Brand Lead, this individual will develop and execute patient-focused strategies that increase disease awareness, support diagnosis and treatment readiness, enhance the patient experience, and help shape market readiness and support successful launch execution. This role will lead a patient marketing team and partner closely with Market Access, Patient Services, Patient Advocacy, Medical Affairs, Regulatory, Legal, Corporate Communications, and Commercial Operations to deliver integrated programs aligned with brand objectives.
Alkermes has a hybrid working environment to support and meet the needs of employees and this role will operate in a flexible environment with 60% of time in the office and 40% from home.
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.
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.