Associate Director, Insights Partner for Oncology

SMPA is seeking an Associate Director, Insights Partner for Oncology to plays a vital role in the Oncology Commercial Organization. The primary responsibilities for this position include generating highly actionable insights that inform commercial brand strategy through both qualitative and quantitative market research, competitive intelligence, and secondary data analytics.  This position will collaborate and work closely with our alliance partner, Pfizer.

Key areas of focus for this role include: generating actionable market insights across physician, payer and patient audiences, developing comprehensive market research and competitive intelligence tactical plans, assimilating insights from multiple secondary data sources, overseeing vendor partners, and budget management.

This role will be a member of the Commercial Insights team and report to the VP, Commercial Insights & Analytics. The location for this position is remote.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Leads market research and competitive intelligence for ORGOVYX®, including planning, development, vendor selection, oversight, monitoring of data collection, data analysis, and interpretation of results to form actionable insights
• Plays a critical role in enhancing marketing, sales, and market access offerings by developing insights from information, and translating insights to shape commercial strategy and decisions
• Manages vendor partnerships including negotiating costs, on-boarding, ensuring accountability, and project execution
• Develops relevant and compelling presentation of insights for key stakeholders, including brand leadership, cross-functional partners, and senior management while adapting communication style based on audience
• Prepares key deliverables (e.g., situation analysis, market assessments) to keep stakeholders informed and identify knowledge gaps to be addressed with future market research
• Leads the development of deep dive analytic assimilating insights from multiple sources, both internal and external, to help provide a thorough understanding of brand performance
• Solid knowledge of secondary pharmaceutical data sources (i.e., Symphony, IQVIA, Directly-contracted SP data, MMIT/DRG formulary / market access data, etc.)
• Partners with key stakeholders to understand business priorities and the related reporting needs of the organization; design and create reports for high-impact analytics to make data actionable and facilitate decision making for business partners
• Leads competitive intelligence information gathering, analyses, and communication for ORGOVYX®
• Develops and prioritizes key business questions with the cross-functional support of medical, clinical, brand teams, and other partners in the organization
• Builds coverage plans and coordinates data collection and reporting for major conferences.
• Seeks out new information across disparate sources such as media, financial filings, publications, clinical data presentations, competitive promotional materials, and other sources
• Prepares and sends alerts and reports to communicate competitive developments
• Identifies and highlights risks, challenges, and opportunities for ORGOVYX®; recommends mitigation strategies and differentiation opportunities
• Organizes and facilitates competitive workshops with cross-functional team members with internal and external partners

Education and Experience:

• BS/BA with concentration in Life Sciences, Business, Public Health or related field experience; MBA or other advanced degree preferred
• 8+ years of relevant experience in biotech or pharmaceutical industry
• 3+ years experience in market research, competitive intelligence, and secondary data analytics required
• Oncology experience highly preferred
• Passion for helping patients
• Demonstrated success in leveraging data and insights to inform marketing decisions
• Strong leadership skills and sense of teamwork and collaboration required
• Strong planning and organization skills with the ability to set priorities effectively and efficiently
• Ability to partner across a broad group of internal and external partners
• Strong business skills to lead multiple project budgets, timelines, processes and procedures
• Prior co-promote or alliance experience preferred

Essential Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills, including ability to synthesize data and deliver a clear story and recommendations
• Strong leadership skills and proven ability to collaborate and influence without authority is required
• Excellent analytical and strategic thinking with proven ability to translate strategy and analysis to a tactical, executable deliverab