Associate Director, Sales Analytics – Prostate Cancer

Sumitomo Pharma Co., Ltd., is a global pharmaceutical company based in Japan with operations in the U.S. (Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.), focused on addressing patient needs in oncology, urology, women's health, rare diseases, cell & gene therapies and CNS. With several marketed products and a diverse pipeline of early- to late-stage investigational assets, we aim to accelerate discovery, research, and development to bring novel therapies to patients sooner. For more information on SMPA, visit our website https://www.us.sumitomo-pharma.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

Job Overview

The Associate Director, Sales Analytics – Prostate Cancer position will lead business insights and field strategy for the commercial organization as it relates to the Prostate Cancer sales team.  This role will be required to operate with diverse data sources, vendors, stakeholders, in a rapidly changing business environment.

This position will report to the Director, Commercial Analytics – Oncology and will be an integral part of the Commercial Analytics team.  This position will partner with sales, finance, and market access leadership, along with other Commercial Analytics leaders to deliver accurate, timely, and reliable insights to stakeholders across the commercial organization.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Perform a critical role in enhancing sales and market access offerings by developing insights from data/information and translating insights to shape field strategy and decisions.
• Develop relevant and compelling insights presentations for key stakeholders while adapting communication style based on audience.
• Develop strategic partnership as the main point of contact for the Prostate Cancer field leadership team and support for the Market Access National Corporate Accounts and Strategic Account Management teams.
• Develop and prioritize key business questions with the cross-functional support of sales, finance, market access and other partners in the organization. 
• Manage development, delivery of strategic field KPIs and supporting metrics for the monthly field leadership business reviews.
• As part of the Orgovyx brand planning process, support the development brand-specific situational analysis, participate in tactical planning, and partner with sales and marketing to create meaningful KPIs.
• Oversee analytic ad hoc project requests related to Prostate Cancer sales team.
• Support the finance forecasting process by providing key insights and assumptions in partnership with commercial leadership.
• Lead alignment, targeting, call planning, and segmentation projects for Prostate Cancer field team, in partnership with other Commercial Analytics leaders.

Key Core Competencies

• Strategic thinker: can see big picture opportunities and translate into actionable plans.
• Excellent written and oral communications skills including executive presence in formal stakeholder presentations.
• Strong knowledge and experience with pharmaceutical data sources (i.e., IQVIA, SHA, MMIT/DRG formulary / market access data).
• Excellent team player and collaborative skills.
• Strong project management skills and managing external vendors/ deliverables within tight timelines.
• Strategic partner to multiple cross-functional stakeholders.
• Proven success in developing analyses with Business Intelligence tools and methods (e.g., Tableau, Qlikview, SQL).
• Ability to understand the commercial environment and business needs and translate to workable solutions.
• Highly motivated change agent that can push against the status quo and seed new ideas, new ways of thinking, and new ways of working.

Education and Experience

• Minimum 8 – 12 (w/o Master’s) or 6 – 8 years (with Master’s) years of relevant experience in biotech or pharmaceutical industry.
• Previous sales or marketing experience preferred.
• Previous sales analytics experience (with SQL) preferred.

The base salary range for this role is $150,640 to $188,300. Base salary is part of our total rewards package which also includes the opportunity for merit-based salary increases, short incentive plan participation, eligibility for our 401(k) plan, medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurances and leaves provided in line with your work state. Our robust time-off policy includes flexible paid time off, 11 paid holidays plus additional time off for a shut-down period during the last week of December, 80 hours of paid