Director, Managed Markets Analytics

Vera Therapeutics, Inc.•Brisbane, CA

10h

About The Position

Vera Therapeutics (Nasdaq: VERA), is a late clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing treatments for serious immunological diseases. Vera’s mission is to advance treatments that target the source of immunologic diseases in order to change the standard of care for patients. Vera’s lead product candidate is atacicept, a fusion protein self-administered at home as a subcutaneous once weekly injection that blocks both B-cell Activating Factor (BAFF) and A Proliferation Inducing Ligand (APRIL), which stimulate B cells to produce autoantibodies contributing to certain autoimmune diseases, including IgA nephropathy. Vera is also evaluating the role of atacicept in other immunologic disorders. Additionally, Vera is developing VT-109, a novel, next-generation dual BAFF/APRIL inhibitor in preclinical development, and MAU868, a monoclonal antibody designed to neutralize infection with BK virus, a polyomavirus that can have devastating consequences in certain settings such as kidney transplant. For more information, please visit: www.veratx.com. Our values are the cornerstone of our culture. Our values inspire us every day and guide everything we do—from how we hire great people, to advancing our mission together, to achieving our ultimate goal to improve medical treatment for patients suffering from immunological diseases. Position Summary: The Director Managed Market Analytics will support Vera’s Access and Value team to inform product strategies across the company's portfolio. This role will be tasked with supporting the development of analytical insights and transforming them into actionable recommendations and tactics that ensure commercial preparation and success. You will have responsibility for conducting business analysis to inform the Access and Value strategy, secondary data analytics, competitive intelligence, demand forecasting, and partnering with primary research. This cross-functional role collaborates with Sales, Brand Marketing, Medical, Patient Services, and Finance teams to generate key insights and recommendations that influence Value and Access strategy and execution. This person will need to be proficient at insight generation, data interpretation, data reporting and analysis, and proactively communicating key insights and recommendations from an array of data inputs. In addition, this role will support creating, measuring, and tracking key performance metrics for Vera products. Key components to this role will include developing and monitoring KPIs, highlighting issues, investigating and interpreting data, and communicating findings to leadership to drive decisions. This role will also be involved with validating effectiveness of commercial strategies and tactics and providing recommendations around new performance metrics to track.

Requirements

Minimum of 5-10+ years of experience within analytics, commercial operations, forecasting, management consulting, or related functional experience within the bio-pharmaceutical industry required
In-depth experience working with secondary syndicated health care data
Experience translating disparate and sometimes ambiguous data sets into actionable insights
Advanced skills with Excel and data mining/analysis; proficiency using data manipulation software and programming (e.g. Tableau, Python, SQL, R)
Solid conceptual thinking - ability to analyze large amounts of information and extract insights
High degree of emotional intelligence, displaying candor and integrity
Understanding of common qualitative and quantitative market research methodologies
Background in marketing analytics or a decision sciences function and experience with advanced quantitative methods (e.g. segmentation, predictive modeling)
Possess intellectual curiosity and strong analytical thinking skills to drive insights and strategic implications that lead to business decisions, and be willing to support building key analytical capabilities in a fast paced, start-up environment
Strong internal/external team management and proven ability to lead strategy around model optimization
Demonstrate a structured approach to solution-oriented thinking (i.e. - diagnosing the problem, analyzing alternatives, recommending and implementing best solutions, follow-through)
Ability to combine primary data sources and secondary market research insights to support sales and marketing strategies and forecasting
Exceptional organizational, time, and task management Ability to prioritize critical tasks and maintain a high degree of accuracy amid competing deadlines
Excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to regularly present concise executive summaries, structured syntheses of insights and business recommendations to senior leadership
Ability to effectively perform all functions in adherence with legal, compliance and regulatory guidelines in the pharmaceutical industry

Nice To Haves

Start-up and launch experience a plus

Responsibilities

Partner across commercial teams and leadership to identify and communicate insights, strategic business implications, and actionable recommendations in support of current inline and future pipeline assets
Integration of insight and analysis from a variety of sources such as primary market research, competitive intelligence, and secondary data to provide actionable opportunities, risks, and strategy assessments
Extract, mine, and synthesize secondary data analysis to discover insights focused on guiding strategic decisions and optimization opportunities by geography, payer, customer segments,
Deliver market, customer, and product insights that are actionable and support the achievement of Access and Value goals
Uncover business insights by asking challenging questions, developing hypotheses, and drawing analytical conclusions to provide actionable intelligence to relevant cross-functional stakeholders to support business performance and planning
Monitor market, environmental, and competitive activity to provide proactive analysis on the potential impact and implications are reflected and communicated in a timely manner
Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Operations to support the optimization of brand planning, go to market strategy, customer segmentation, targeting, alignment, call planning, resource allocation, and provide insight for current and potential product launches
Aid in the design, execution, and delivery of primary market research programs and activities
Analyze, interpret, and synthesize with secondary data & primary market research to provide a holistic analytical approach to commercial insights
Support the assessment of Commercial strategies and tactics to quantify ROI and make recommendations to optimize the use of existing/future resources
Partner with our payer team on contract analytics
Partner wit our finance team on GTN’s analysis and profitable access contracts