Associate Director, Market Access Analytics

Alkermes

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Associate Director, Market Access Analytics, is responsible for collaborating, partnering, and developing analytics to support LUMRYZ and the Rare Disease – Sleep Medicine Business Unit at Alkermes. This position will be a key business partner to the Patient Services, Distribution, and Reimbursement Team and collaborate closely with Market Access, Commercial Finance, Commercial Data Management, Commercial IT, and Field Operations. The position will work with leaders across the commercial organization to align priorities, manage projects, and deliver high quality analytics. The position will report to the Senior Director, Market Access Analytics and will work a weekly hybrid office schedule.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in business, science or quantitative disciplines such as mathematics or statistics required.
Proven experience delivering analytics solutions to pharmaceutical or biotech organizations that address key business needs for promoted products
Minimum of 5-7 years in pharmaceutical industry
Experience with pharmaceutical data assets (including claims data) offered by external vendors (IQVIA, Symphony Health, DRG, Komodo, etc) and data generated by internal systems (Veeva)
Experience required working with large datasets and using relational databases.
Previous experience or understanding of SQL programming is required
Exceptional computer skills including fluency with Excel, PowerPoint
Strong quantitative abilities and problem-solving skills
Highly analytical, always looking for new ways to examine data
Strong attention to detail and process follow-through
Able to work both independently and cross-functionally
Ability to develop collaborative working relationships with key customers and Commercial Leadership; ability to understand business requirements, propose solutions, gain alignment, and execute
Strong communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written, including ability to synthesize information for and make recommendations to key customers and Commercial Leadership

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree preferred.
Experience with specialty markets or rare diseases preferred.
Tableau are a plus

Responsibilities

Collaborate and partner with key business stakeholders
Identify key business questions and gain agreement on data, reports, and analyses to address these questions
Manage and complete special projects and ad hoc analytic requests, including preparation and presentation of analyses, and providing actionable insights and recommendations based on findings
Provide ongoing, high-level strategic consulting to all internal stakeholders to ensure maximum leverage of insights
Primary analytic partner and support for Patient Services, Distribution, and Reimbursement Team
Working in collaboration with other commercial groups to provide support for operations related to LUMRYZ HUB activities
Develop and maintain new and existing dashboards providing actionable insights related to treatment providers, pilot programs, HUB activities, co-pay card utilization, and Patient Access Services
Support ongoing initiatives to increase fulfillment by providing detailed analyses related to pharmacy performance, opportunity, and tracking
Manage data, KPIs, and platform for Field Reimbursement Managers
Support pull-through initiatives, targeting exercises, and opportunity assessments for GPO and pharmacy accounts
Assist Pricing and Contracts and Market Access Strategy & Marketing with deal assessment support
Develop and implement QC processes to ensure accuracy of analytics and reporting
Provide Market Access content for quarterly briefing book
Develop and manage analysts to meet needs of the growing commercial organization
Support Market Access related launch activities for alixorexton