Markus Wagener

Pharma Marketing Leader (๐—˜๐˜… ๐—ฃ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐˜‡๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿด ๐˜†๐—ฟ๐˜€) Portfolio Management, Marketing Strategy & Execution | Brand Management and Strategy | Pharma & Dermo cosmetics Europe, Asia, Middle East & Africa

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

About

๐—˜๐˜…๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜‚๐˜๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—ฆ๐˜‚๐—บ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜† ๐˜ผ ๐™ข๐™–๐™ง๐™ ๐™š๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ก๐™š๐™–๐™™๐™š๐™ง ๐™ฌ๐™๐™ค ๐™๐™š๐™ก๐™ฅ๐™จ ๐™ฅ๐™๐™–๐™ง๐™ข๐™–๐™˜๐™š๐™ช๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™˜๐™–๐™ก ๐™˜๐™ค๐™ข๐™ฅ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™ž๐™š๐™จ ๐™™๐™ง๐™ž๐™ซ๐™š ๐™ฉ๐™ค๐™ฅ ๐™ก๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™š ๐™ฅ๐™ง๐™ค๐™›๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™จ ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™˜๐™ง๐™š๐™–๐™จ๐™š ๐™ข๐™–๐™ง๐™ ๐™š๐™ฉ ๐™จ๐™๐™–๐™ง๐™š, ๐™—๐™ฎ ๐™—๐™ช๐™ž๐™ก๐™™๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™š๐™ญ๐™˜๐™š๐™ฅ๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™–๐™ก ๐™—๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™๐™จ ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™™๐™š๐™ซ๐™š๐™ก๐™ค๐™ฅ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™™๐™š๐™ก๐™ž๐™ซ๐™š๐™ง๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ž๐™ข๐™ฅ๐™–๐™˜๐™ฉ๐™›๐™ช๐™ก ๐™ข๐™–๐™ง๐™ ๐™š๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™ง๐™–๐™ฉ๐™š๐™œ๐™ž๐™š๐™จ. An ambitious and passionate senior marketing and brand strategy executive, offering more than 19 years of specialist experience in supporting global pharmaceutical companies across the Middle East, Africa, and European markets. Holds a demonstrated track record of driving business results by creating customer value and empowering cross-functional teams to commercialize insights and increase performance. Specialist expertise includes Portfolio and Profitability strategy, P&L Management, Marketing & Brand Management, Product Launches & Activations, Business Planning and Execution, Market Access, Market Research and Customer Insights. Excels at building, leading, and developing high-performing cross-functional teams while delivering a positive financial impact on top line and improving the bottom line through improved operational efficiency. An inspiring strategic thinker, resilient, and known for effective leadership and interpersonal skills. ๐—”๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐˜€ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—˜๐˜…๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐Ÿ”ธ ๐–ฏ๐—๐–บ๐—‹๐—†๐–บ/๐–ก๐—‚๐—ˆ๐—๐–พ๐–ผ๐— ๐–ฌ๐–บ๐—‹๐—„๐–พ๐—๐—‚๐—‡๐—€ ๐–ค๐—‘๐—‰๐–พ๐—‹๐— ๐Ÿ”ธ ๐–ฏ๐—ˆ๐—‹๐—๐–ฟ๐—ˆ๐—…๐—‚๐—ˆ ๐–ฒ๐—๐—‹๐–บ๐—๐–พ๐—€๐—‚๐–พ๐—Œ ๐Ÿ”ธ ๐–ก๐—‹๐–บ๐—‡๐–ฝ ๐–ฌ๐–บ๐—‡๐–บ๐—€๐–พ๐—†๐–พ๐—‡๐— ๐Ÿ”ธ ๐–ญ๐–พ๐— ๐–ฏ๐—‹๐—ˆ๐–ฝ๐—Ž๐–ผ๐— ๐–ซ๐–บ๐—Ž๐—‡๐–ผ๐—๐–พ๐—Œ ๐Ÿ”ธ ๐–จ๐—‡๐—Œ๐—‚๐—€๐—๐—๐—Œ & ๐– ๐—‡๐–บ๐—…๐—’๐—๐—‚๐–ผ๐—Œ ๐Ÿ”ธ ๐–ฏ&๐–ซ ๐–ฌ๐–บ๐—‡๐–บ๐—€๐–พ๐—†๐–พ๐—‡๐— ๐Ÿ”ธ ๐–ฌ๐–บ๐—‹๐—„๐–พ๐— ๐– ๐–ผ๐–ผ๐–พ๐—Œ๐—Œ & ๐–ฑ๐–พ๐—Œ๐–พ๐–บ๐—‹๐–ผ๐— ๐Ÿ”ธ ๐–ฒ๐—๐—‹๐—ˆ๐—‡๐—€ ๐–ซ๐–พ๐–บ๐–ฝ๐–พ๐—‹๐—Œ๐—๐—‚๐—‰ ๐Ÿ”ธ ๐–ค๐—‘๐–ผ๐–พ๐—…๐—…๐–พ๐—‡๐— ๐–ข๐—ˆ๐—†๐—†๐—Ž๐—‡๐—‚๐–ผ๐–บ๐—๐—‚๐—ˆ๐—‡ ๐–ฒ๐—„๐—‚๐—…๐—…๐—Œ ๐—˜๐—ฑ๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐Ÿ”ธ BA Hons (Dual Degree) European Business and German Masters in European Business Administration International Marketing from the Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany; and Lord Ashcroft Business School, Cambridge, UK ๐—ฆ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—˜๐˜…๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ ๐Ÿ”ธ Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology ๐——๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ป๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€ ๐Ÿ”ธ Chief Marketing Officer, Head of Marketing, Marketing Director

Experience

  • Regional Head of Strategy and Project Development - MIAPAC_Middle East, India & Asia Pacific at NAOS (Bioderma - Institut Esthederm - Etat Pur)
    Aug 2023 - Present ยท 2 yrs 11 mos

    In this role. I am working across the various leading skin care brands from NAOS: Bioderma, Institut Esthederm and Etat Pur, in both prescription and retail, in the markets of Middle East and India, and since May 2024 also in the extended geographic region of Asia and Australia, for the new region of MIAPAC (Middle east, Inda, Asia, PACific). My focus is to identify and drive growth strategies and unlock new, innovative and disruptive growth opportunities across all areas and aspects of the business, such as category and customer strategy development, digitalization and optimization, and developing local manufactured products to address specific local and regional consumer needs and business opportunities, in a highly competitive skincare environment, to ensure we develop today the key strategic competitive advantage to implement in the coming years to create a competitive edge and gain market share.

  • Chief Public Affairs Officer / Executive Board Member at Fight Cancer Global
    Dec 2022 - Feb 2024 ยท 1 yr 3 mos

    This has been a marvelous experience supporting a very compelling cause and working with incredibly dedicated individuals at FCG. While I had to move on from FCG, I am now involved with other activities such as health and education in needed communities in India through NAOS village and with Friends of Cancer Patients in the UAE. With cancer patients at the center of the focus, my task at FCD was to drive better access of patients to healthcare and treatments through early detection, screening and partnerships with relevant stakeholders such as healthcare professionals, academic institutions, governments, patient advocacy and bio-tech and pharmaceutical companies. My focus was on designing and mobilizing sustainably developed solutions rooted in patient-centered interactions as we - Fight Cancer Global - connect, collaborate, and communicate with our partners. Fight Cancer Global is ONE global community, an organization dedicated to creating patient-centric solutions which unite all players to end the isolation for all patients globally.

  • Head of Marketing - AKI Pharma at Al Khayyat Investments (AKI)
    Nov 2020 - Sep 2021 ยท 11 mos

    ๐˜ˆ๐˜ญ ๐˜’๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜บ๐˜บ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜๐˜ฏ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ด ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ง๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜บ-๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜Ž๐˜Š๐˜Š ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฉ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ด ๐˜ข ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ด ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ญ๐˜ถ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜—๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ถ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ด & ๐˜๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ. ๐˜ข๐˜ฌ๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ฑ.๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ ๐Ÿ”น Leading a team of 50 people across Field Force and Marketing, with the primary goal to drive turnaround of declining revenue. Full P&L responsibility and overseeing Business Development activity with two new business partners from Europe with launches in 2021 and 2022. ๐Ÿ”น Driving the effectiveness of the marketing and sales teams within the Pharma division, through costumer focused re-organization and roles harmonization, and implementing a digital CRM platform to unlock segmentation and targeting efficiencies. ๐Ÿ”น P&L optimization through resource control management to achieve net profitability % targets. ๐Ÿ”น Partnering across functions and business units to leverage internal capabilities and maximize account, HCP and consumer access and engagement. ๐Ÿ”น Cultivating organic growth by recognizing growth drivers and identifying opportunities and executing effective market analytics and KPI implementation. ๐Ÿ”น Establishing a culture of inclusiveness, respect, accountability, collaboration, and transparency to develop high performance teams.

  • Pfizer (18 yrs)
    • Regional Portfolio Management Lead AfME
      Jan 2016 - Feb 2020 ยท 4 yrs 2 mos

      ๐˜—๐˜ง๐˜ช๐˜ป๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ญ๐˜ฅโ€™๐˜ด ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜จ๐˜บ ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฉ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ฑ๐˜บ ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ด ๐˜–๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜จ๐˜บ, ๐˜๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ค๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด, ๐˜™๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜‹๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ด, ๐˜๐˜ฎ๐˜ฎ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜จ๐˜บ & ๐˜ˆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ช-๐˜๐˜ฏ๐˜ง๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ด. ๐˜ธ๐˜ธ๐˜ธ.๐˜ฑ๐˜ง๐˜ช๐˜ป๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ.๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ ๐Ÿ”น Shaped the Pfizer Essential Health (PEH) and Pfizer Biopharmaceuticals (PBG) portfolios across the Africa and Middle East region by reducing the complexity of portfolio management, enhancing efficiency by optimizing resource allocation, as well as increasing profitability, to ultimately maximize enterprise value. ๐Ÿ”น Driving effective portfolio optimization and improving the agility of the organization to unlock growth potential. ๐Ÿ”น Operationalize growth opportunities triggering launches of line extensions and new markets penetration. ๐Ÿ”น Leading product rationalization workstreams to reduce complexity across functions in the organization, and to minimize low patient value, low revenues, and negative Gross Margin products. ๐Ÿ”น Project lead for Market Access and Pricing workstream in selected key markets in the Middle East. Designed to anticipate pricing strategy readiness to protect key products pricing in the near- and mid-term. ๐Ÿ”น Cultivating a new mindset and behavior about portfolio efficiency and sustainable growth.

    • Regional Therapeutic Area Lead, Menโ€™s and Womenโ€™s Health AfME
      Jan 2014 - Jan 2016 ยท 2 yrs 1 mo

      ๐Ÿ”น Launched and successfully established a dedicated Womenโ€™s Health portfolio CME platform through an overarching strategy addressing both HCPs and patientโ€™s journey. ๐Ÿ”น Developed a targeted and selective Oral contraceptive strategy for the region by modelling financial analysis matched to market potential to optimize the P&L. ๐Ÿ”น Amplified the Viagra retail strategy platform across all Therapeutic Areas including CV and Anti-Infectives to leverage the best practice and enhance retail impact. ๐Ÿ”น Create a team of marketers across countries in AfME, instilling the OWNIT culture, developing capabilities and creating a culture of best practice sharing, ideas generation and innovation execution.

    • Regional Marketing Director AfME
      Apr 2013 - Dec 2013 ยท 9 mos

      ๐Ÿ”น Regional Marketing Director Urology, Respiratory and HRT. ๐Ÿ”น Led the Therapeutic Area strategy and country brand marketers (shared P&L responsibility) to drive targeted growth opportunities. This included price optimization and retail strategy, crisis mangement as well as stabilizing the team following internal major re-organization.