Associate Director, NA Cystic Fibrosis Analytics & Reporting

Job Description

General Summary:

Vertex is seeking to hire an Associate Director, NA Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Analytics & Reporting to join the North America Forecasting, Analytics, and Insights team in the Commercial organization. This role will provide analytics support for strategic commercial initiatives by identifying and quantifying market drivers, barriers, and opportunities using advanced analytical methods. Additionally, this role will provide support for ongoing analytics, quantitative tracking, and reporting of national and sub-national commercial performance of the NA CF business. This individual will work cross-functionally and lead requirement gathering, development, execution, and insight generation for performance analytics, dashboards, and present insights to stakeholders.

The ideal candidate must be a skilled, experienced individual contributor and demonstrate the ability to communicate complex concepts to a wide variety of stakeholders. This candidate must possess a high degree of attention to detail and accuracy in creating deliverables and must be self-directed in engaging with colleagues.  Additionally, this candidate must be able to strategize, collaborate, and manage relationships with our many cross-functional partners.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work with CF BU stakeholders to identify existing or planned initiatives that would benefit from additional analytics support, and collaboratively create and execute analytics plans to deliver actionable insights

• Design & operate an analytical engine to identify & quantify drivers, barriers, and opportunities in the market using advanced statistical / ML methodology

• Lead commercial KPI tracking, reporting, and analytics processes end-to-end, with primary focus on US CF (e.g., working with IT partners to develop Power BI dashboards, prepare PPT presentations, or other similar materials)

• Contribute to answering ad-hoc analytics questions as they arise from the BU and other stakeholders; work to understand questions and define appropriate data & analytics approaches

• Develop and leverage deep understanding of available data sets, and work with partners to ingest, process, and analyze data for reporting and analytics

• Generate and deliver actionable insights to key stakeholders, including collaborating with other analytical partners at Vertex

• Work collaboratively with cross-functional stakeholders, including but not limited to US Marketing, Global Marketing, US Market Access, US Finance, and Commercial Sales Operations

Knowledge and Skills:

• Proficiency with complex Excel modeling, and analyzing and developing insights from large data sets, leveraging relevant tools such as SQL, python, SAS, VBA, etc.

• Proficiency working with wide array of commercial pharma data sets, including data sets such as IQVIA (or equivalent from different data vendor), patient claims data, and internally generated sales / marketing data (e.g. field call data from CRM)

• Experience building and maintaining KPI reporting dashboards within the pharma/biotech industry, using tools such as Power BI

• Strong analytical 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”

• Experience working with senior leadership to support insights generation and communication, financial forecasting and analytics, and/or commercial launch planning

• Ability to quickly and thoughtfully adapt to new and evolving business and planning needs

Education and Experience:

• Master’s degree in a quantitative discipline required (Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Finance, Science) or equivalent experience

• 7-10 years in biotech/pharmaceuticals in a quantitative role in Commercial / Corporate Strategy / BD, and/or 4 years in a relevant consulting role (management, strategic or economic consulting) post-MBA/PhD, with meaningful biotech/pharmaceuticals and quantitative decision support experience.

Pay Range:

$157,800 - $236,700

Disclosure Statement:

The range provided is based on what we believe is a reasonable estimate for the base salary pay range for this job at the time of posting. This role is eligible for an annual bonus and annual equity awards. Some roles may also be eligible for overtime pay, in accordance with federal and state requirements. Actual base salary pay will be based on a number of factors, including skills, competencies, experience, and other job-related factors permitted by law.

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