About The Position
Ionis is seeking a market insights and analytics professional to join its Insights & Analytics team as Associate Director for HAE (Hereditary Angioedema). The role develops and maintains a holistic understanding of the market and its business implications through market research, data analytics, competitive intelligence, and data-backed forecasting. It creates cross-functional networks across Commercial, Finance, and R&D and partners with stakeholders at all levels. Working in partnership with the Director of Market Insights for HAE, the Associate Director deploys insights to inform brand strategies, marketing plans, tactics, and lifecycle opportunities. The role helps cross-functional teams track and diagnose brand health, identify business questions and priorities, design research plans, and translate findings into actionable recommendations for brand growth. The position is temporary.
Requirements
- Typically, at least 12 years of related pharmaceutical or biotechnology experience with a bachelor's degree; 8 years with a master's degree; or 5 years with a Ph.D.; equivalent experience may also qualify.
- Bachelor's degree required; a relevant advanced degree is preferred.
- Experience conducting market research across market-insights modalities and product lifecycle stages, including preclinical, pre-launch, launch, and post-launch, with marketed in-line brands and rare-disease stakeholders such as HCPs, patients, payors, and pharmacies.
- Fluency in tracking and brand-health diagnostics.
- U.S. market experience required; global market-insights experience preferred.
- Experience in rare-disease markets.
- Strong understanding of the design and implementation of cutting-edge market research.
- Experience leveraging complex quantitative data, such as claims and EHR data, and translating it into meaningful insights.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong collaboration and interpersonal skills, including the ability to partner with and influence data-driven cross-functional teams, often without direct authority.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, innovative, and evolving organization; prioritize efforts, solve problems, make tradeoffs and decisions, and manage stakeholder expectations.
- Ability to think strategically while remaining detail-oriented.
- Results-oriented approach, bias to act, and innovative approach to business challenges.
- Curiosity, strong personal drive, and entrepreneurial spirit.
Nice To Haves
- Relevant advanced degree.
- Global market-insights experience.
- Experience with marketed in-line brands.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to end-to-end market insights plans, determine critical business questions, set the long-term research roadmap for Dawnzera/HAE, and generate actionable recommendations.
- Serve as a strategic advisor on relevant projects and initiatives, driving evidence-based decision-making for HAE brand strategy and tactics.
- Lead end-to-end project management for tracking brand uptake and brand health; update KPIs and metrics for brand diagnostics.
- Identify and select external partners for market insights projects and manage delivery processes to ensure quality, cost-effectiveness, and efficiency.
- Leverage and synthesize qualitative and quantitative primary market research, data analysis, secondary research, and competitive intelligence.
- Pressure-test conclusions and implications from market insights initiatives to ensure assessments are objective, data-driven, and relevant.
- Partner with the forecasting team to develop and pressure-test forecast assumptions and models.
- Convey advanced information and persuade cross-functional stakeholders and leadership through actionable insights and recommendations.
- Reconcile differing views and use emotional intelligence to negotiate, persuade, and shift thinking in sensitive or complex situations to drive business results.
- Lead and contribute to broader disease-state strategy projects and initiatives, including new indication, product, and market evaluations.
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