Associate Director, Pain Strategic Brand Analytics

Job Description

General Summary:

Vertex is seeking to hire an Associate Director, Pain Strategic Brand Analytics to join the North America Forecasting, Analytics and Market Research team in the Commercial organization. This role will provide analytics support for strategic initiatives throughout the full evaluation, execution, and measurement lifecycle of the initiative. Additionally, this individual will support the ongoing analytics measuring execution pull-through of pain BU wins (payer, provider, etc.) and design & operate analytical approaches to identify & quantify drivers, barriers, and opportunities in the market using advanced methods. Analytics work will span functions within the BU including Marketing, Market Transformation, and Strategic Accounts, and will include collaboration with Market Access, Field, and Omnichannel Analytics.

The ideal candidate must be a skilled and experienced individual contributor, with a demonstrated ability to communicate complicated 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 the Director, Pain Performance Analytics & Forecasting and Pain BU stakeholders to identify existing or planned initiatives that would benefit from additional analytics support, and collaboratively create analytics plans to deliver required insights
• Develop & continuously improve framework for establishing goals and measuring execution pull-through of new wins (e.g. new hospital formulary approvals); present performance against goals during commercial performance meetings
• Design & operate an analytical engine to identify & quantify drivers, barriers, and opportunities in the market using advanced statistical / ML methodology; synthesize findings for business stakeholders on a regular basis for evaluation & action
• Contribute to answering ad-hoc analytics questions as they arise from the BU; work with BU stakeholders to understand their questions and most appropriate data & analytics approach
• Serve as an internal team SME to elevate analytics capabilities within the Forecasting, Analytics, and Market Research team through existing expertise and ongoing self-education of best-in-class approaches
• Work collaboratively with cross functional stakeholders including but not limited to US Marketing, Global Marketing, US Market Access, US Finance, Commercial Sales Operations, etc.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Proficiency with complex modeling and analyzing and developing insights from large data sets, leveraging relevant tools such as SQL, python, R, etc.
• Proficiency working with wide array of commercial pharma data sets, including data sets such as IQVIA (or equivalent from different data vendor) XPONENT PlanTrak, DDD, LAAD (patient claims data), and internally generated sales / marketing data (e.g. field call data from CRM)
• Experience with advanced analytics and machine learning modelling including time series modelling, XGBoost, predictive modelling, regression, and other statistical modelling algorithms 
• Experience working on products competing in large, complex markets and experience across both retail & hospital products
• 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, advanced analytics & modeling, and commercial launch planning
• Ability to quickly and thoughtfully adapt to new and evolving business and planning needs

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in quantitative discipline required (e.g., Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Finance, Business Analytics) or equivalent experience
• 7-10 years of experience in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry, 6+ years of insights, analytics and/or reporting is required.

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, c