Associate Director, Market Research and Competitive Intelligence

Amylyx Pharmaceuticals•Cambridge, MA

2d•Remote

About The Position

The Associate Director, Market Research and Competitive Intelligence reports to the Senior Director, Market Insights and leads primary market research and competitive intelligence supporting commercialization of avexitide for post-bariatric hypoglycemia (PBH). This highly visible, hands-on role develops and executes an integrated insights plan spanning foundational, strategic, communications, and tracking research, including healthcare professional (HCP) and patient attitudes, trial, and usage (ATU) studies. It also leads competitive intelligence to provide timely, objective, and actionable perspectives on the PBH disease state, emerging treatment landscape, competitor activity, and market implications. The primary focus is PBH and avexitide commercialization, with fit-for-purpose support for New Products Planning (NPP), pipeline assets, and selected business-development needs. The role works across Forecasting, Analytics, Marketing, Market Access, Medical Affairs, and other stakeholders to build understanding of the patient journey and apply insights to market development, launch strategy, and execution. It oversees research and intelligence partners, budgets, timelines, quality, and compliance, and translates complex or conflicting evidence into concise, decision-oriented communications for senior leaders and cross-functional teams. The position supports remote work within the United States, except Amylyx is currently not considering applicants who reside in Alaska or Hawaii. The employee must be able to work remotely in a setting that supports privacy, reliable internet, phone access, and video conferencing. Travel to the corporate location in Cambridge, Massachusetts several times a year and attendance at other company-related events as requested are expected.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, market research, social sciences, public health, life sciences, statistics, or a related field.
10+ years of relevant experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, life sciences consulting, primary market research, competitive intelligence, commercial insights, or a related discipline.
Demonstrated experience leading qualitative and quantitative pharmaceutical market research across the project lifecycle, including business-question framing, research design, vendor management, analysis, synthesis, and stakeholder activation.
Ability to integrate primary research, secondary data, competitive intelligence, clinical evidence, and internal perspectives while clearly distinguishing facts, assumptions, and implications.
Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills, including the ability to distill complex findings into clear strategic choices and recommendations.
Strong vendor, project, and budget management skills, including the ability to manage concurrent studies, recurring intelligence activities, and urgent ad hoc requests.
High degree of curiosity, objectivity, judgment, and attention to detail, and comfort operating in a fast-paced environment with evolving priorities and incomplete information.
Ability to work remotely in a setting that enables privacy, reliable internet access, phone use, and video conferencing.
Ability to travel to the Cambridge, Massachusetts corporate location several times a year and attend other company-related events as requested.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree.
Experience with strategic and tracking research, including HCP or patient ATU studies.
Experience in patient journey, segmentation, demand, positioning, messaging, campaign, or launch-readiness research.
Experience developing or leading competitive intelligence programs, including secondary monitoring, landscape assessments, conference intelligence, synthesis of implications, and executive communication.
Experience supporting launch-stage brands, specialty or rare-disease markets, and pre-commercial assets.

Responsibilities

Serve as the primary market research and competitive intelligence partner for PBH commercialization, translating business questions into an integrated insights plan for market development, launch strategy, and execution.
Partner with Forecasting, Analytics, Marketing, Market Access, Medical Affairs, and other stakeholders to integrate research and secondary data and maintain a deep understanding of the patient journey.
Share key insights with the organization and contribute as a core member of the Central Insights Team; oversee updates to the Facts and Insights document.
Lead end-to-end qualitative and quantitative research with healthcare professionals, patients, caregivers, and other relevant stakeholders, from problem definition and study design through vendor oversight, analysis, synthesis, and action planning.
Lead HCP and patient ATU and other tracking research, including KPI definition, questionnaire evolution, wave-to-wave comparability, trend interpretation, and integration of findings into commercialization decisions and launch-readiness planning.
Establish and lead the PBH competitive intelligence process, covering competitor pipelines, clinical data, scientific activity, regulatory developments, business and investor activity, partnerships, market-entry signals, and disease-state developments.
Assess the potential impact of competitive developments, identify risks and opportunities, and recommend actions for brand, medical, market access, commercial, and corporate stakeholders.
Maintain competitor profiles, landscape assessments, timelines, trackers, SWOTs, source documentation, and recurring updates, with clear escalation criteria for high-impact developments.
Provide fit-for-purpose primary research and competitive intelligence for NPP and pipeline assets, including opportunity assessments, target product profile input, unmet-needs exploration, indication prioritization, differentiation, and commercial potential.
Select and manage market research and competitive intelligence partners, including RFPs, scopes of work, budgets, timelines, quality standards, compliance requirements, and performance expectations.
Translate complex and sometimes conflicting evidence into concise, objective, decision-oriented narratives and visual outputs for senior leadership and cross-functional teams.
Apply rigorous research standards, protect respondent confidentiality, support appropriate adverse-event and product-complaint reporting, and document methods, limitations, and sources.