Vertex Pharmaceuticals · 6 hours ago
Senior Director, Forecasting, Analytics & Insights (Kidney)
Boston, MA
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
$228K/yr - $342K/yr
10+ years expVertex Pharmaceuticals is a global biotechnology company that invests in scientific innovation. They are seeking an experienced individual to lead the Kidney Disease Area pillar within the North America Forecasting, Analytics & Insights team, responsible for strategy, design, and implementation of forecasting and analytics plans to drive strategic planning processes.
BiotechnologyHealth CareMedicalPharmaceutical
Responsibilities
Lead a high-performing, versatile, and cohesive team by hiring, leading, managing, and coaching experts and innovators with deep experience in pharmaceutical/biotech forecasting, analytics, and market research
Lead short/mid-range forecasting and performance tracking processes, by modeling numerous underlying demand and sales drivers, strategically working with stakeholders to define assumptions/parameters, communicating performance vs. forecast, and identifying critical scenarios/sensitivities and quantifying risks and opportunities
Lead design and execution of comprehensive analytics generation strategy/plans across areas including brand and strategic analytics, sub-national/field analytics, omnichannel/media analytics; actively drive recommendations to support critical BU decision making
Lead marketing sciences for Global and NA Kidney marketing teams; develop annual strategic insights generation plan, and manage team in the design, execution and interpretation of market research studies and employ a wide variety of secondary sources and analytical techniques that generate deep insights in support of brand success
Enable strategic planning and decision-making processes by proactively proposing insights and actions for NA and Global Kidney teams (i.e. launch planning, annual brand planning process, diagnosis of brand performance, etc.)
Define strategic roadmap for evaluation and implementation of leading and emerging technologies, tools, and methodologies (e.g., AI, advanced analytics methods, technology platforms, etc.) across forecasting, analytics and market research
Lead essential cross-functional teams and processes, such as LE process, launch tower, analytics POD, etc. and regularly collaborate for cross-functional partners, such as NA Marketing, NA IACO, US Market Access, US and Global Finance, Supply Chain, Strategic Sourcing, etc
Strategically curate vendor roster, to support and enable strategic coordination across multiple projects / workstreams
Ensure corporate standards of excellence and compliance are upheld and perform all Vertex business in accordance with all regulations, policies and procedures; demonstrates high ethical and professional standards at all times in order to maintain excellent reputation within the medical and pharmaceutical community
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in quantitative discipline required (Economics, Business, Finance, Sciences, Engineering, Statistics)
10+ years of pharmaceutical/biotech industry experience
5 years of leadership experience in Forecasting, Marketing Science or similar, and/or equivalent in relevant life sciences consulting role post MBA/PhD, with meaningful quantitative decision support experience
Proven leadership and management skills, and ability to attract, select, develop, mentor and retain a high-performing team
Experience with and ability to manage multiple capabilities, such as forecasting, performance reporting, brand/strategic analytics, market research, omnichannel analytics, etc
Excellent written and verbal presentation skills and interpersonal skills; able to communicate and present complex and/or new ideas with clarity and simplicity to senior management (e.g., BU VP, SVP North America Commercial, CCO)
Team player and collaborator with ability to develop rapport and credibility with a wide variety of stakeholders across different functions and at all levels
Strong analytical skills and business acumen; intellectual curiosity, motivation and ability to structure problems, diagnose issues and triangulate with multiple approaches while keeping sight of the 'big picture' and synthesize the key findings
Experience working with a range of data sets – specialty pharmacy/patient-level deidentified data, IQVIA data, payer/claims data, large unstructured data sets (e.g., social and digital media data, secondary data sources), etc
Proficiency with complex Excel modeling, and other advanced data manipulation/modeling tools, for the purposes of forecasting and/or data analytics
Experience in both primary and secondary market research approaches, techniques, and insight synthesis
Preferred
Master's degree or PhD preferred
Benefits
Medical, dental and vision benefits
Generous paid time off (including a week-long company shutdown in the Summer and the Winter)
Educational assistance programs including student loan repayment
A generous commuting subsidy
Matching charitable donations
401(k)
Company
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Vertex Pharmaceuticals is focused on the discovery and development of small molecule drugs for the treatment of serious diseases.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$657.31MKey Investors
Janssen Belgium
2024-07-10Post Ipo Secondary· $1.11M
2022-05-17Post Ipo Equity· $50M
2009-12-03Post Ipo Equity· $443M
Leadership Team
Reshma Kewalramani
CEO and President
Nina Devlin
Senior Vice President, Chief Communications Officer
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