Associate Director, Business Insights and Analytics

Crinetics Pharmaceuticals•San Diego, CA

6d•Onsite

About The Position

The Associate Director, Business Insights and Analytics, will leverage market knowledge and modeling expertise to generate in-depth, customer-focused analytical insights, articulate actionable recommendations, and drive critical business decisions. Working closely with Commercial, Marketing, Finance and Sales Analytics, this person will be responsible for designing and executing advanced statistical analyses and customized forecast models. This individual will also help identify key drivers and performance metrics to explain variance to performance, brand goals, and sales results. This position will have regular interaction with Commercial and Senior Leaders and require an ability to present sophisticated analysis to individuals with a wide variety of backgrounds.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Science, or related field.
12 years of professional experience with 7 years of related experience working in marketing sciences, forecasting, or business analytics function within a biotech/pharmaceutical company or consulting firm.
Applied experience in developing and maintaining robust forecasting models and thorough understanding of various time-series and patient-based forecasting techniques.
Deep expertise in generating commercial insights from large transactional data sets.
Possess a strong understanding of industry secondary data and syndicated sources and their strength and weaknesses.
Ability to analyze complex issues, distill information to essential knowledge, develop business-relevant strategic recommendations, and persuasively present to a range of stakeholders.
Ability to operate in ambiguous situations and determine focused objectives and a clear path forward in the face of open questions
Highly developed interpersonal skills with ability to lead, interact with, focus, resolve conflict and drive consensus among individuals from a variety of backgrounds.

Nice To Haves

A Master’s degree (MBA) is strongly preferred.
Experience with forecast and data analytic software like Flexicast, Forecast Pro, Crystal Ball, Tableau a plus.
Experience with launch brands highly desired.
Experience with longitudinal patient, specialty pharmacy/hub data preferred.
Biology and chemical laboratory environment experience needed.

Responsibilities

Perform advanced statistical analyses with market knowledge and modeling expertise to identify patterns within the data, uncover insights/brand opportunities and articulate actionable recommendations.
Maintain all forecasts for our commercial launch products including drug assets in Phase II & III.
Work with stakeholders to align on assumptions for multiple forecast scenarios.
Support brand planning and strategy through measuring KPIs, MCM & OMNI channel analysis.
Conduct secondary data and behavioral analyses of HCPs, Patients, and Payers to understand influences and drivers of business performance (e.g., HCP/Payer Targeting, Source of Business Analysis, etc.).
Enable senior management to make informed, data-based driven decisions by providing business analysis and analytical support, particularly in areas where data is difficult to assess/unreliable and a high level of analytical skill is required.
Partner with the Market Research lead to track and analyze Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that are aligned with strategy and partner to design and work to develop standard reports.
Partner with the head of Commercial Insights to articulate and present updates on commercial performance to Senior Leaders.
Contribute to the evaluation, analysis, and integration of available data sources such as secondary market audits (Symphony Health claims, etc.), epidemiology data/reports, sales analytics & financial data, competitive intelligence, and syndicated prescription and unit data (IQVIA, etc.).