Director, Strategy & Insights - Pharma

Vi • Remote (EST/PST/CT),

8h

About The Position

The Director, Strategy & Insights is a senior individual contributor in Vi’s Pharma vertical, translating scientific, behavioral, and market information into executive-level insights, strategies, and action plans for biopharma clients. The role owns a dedicated book of accounts and serves as the senior strategic partner and expert voice across client interactions. It leads insight development from the strategic question through executive-level delivery, including decks, targeting strategies, and insight frameworks. The position partners with data, deployment, marketing, product/technology, and account management teams to embed insights in client relationships and the Vi platform, while identifying opportunities to grow accounts. The work spans therapeutic areas and drug modalities, including pre-approval activities such as clinical trial recruitment and disease-state education, and post-approval work such as precision marketing and HCP segmentation.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of relevant pharma experience in strategy consulting, insights, medical communications, or an agency.
• Track record of independently leading client-facing engagements.
• Deep scientific literacy across disease states, mechanisms of action (MOA), and clinical data, with the ability to engage credibly on complex scientific and strategic questions.
• Strong commercial instincts and understanding of how insights inform go-to-market decisions, HCP targeting, and patient engagement strategy.
• Hands-on experience with claims and intent data across HCP and patient audiences.
• Competitive intelligence experience across multiple therapeutic areas.
• Demonstrated ability to own client relationships and work end to end.
• Comfort working across disciplines and with non-pharma partners, including engineers, marketers, and data scientists.
• Entrepreneurial, comfortable with ambiguity and working without a playbook, and able to manage multiple accounts at speed.
• Collaborative, low-ego approach and strong focus on client outcomes.

Nice To Haves

• Primary market research experience.

Responsibilities

• Own a dedicated book of biopharma accounts as the senior strategic partner and expert voice across client interactions.
• Lead insight development from strategic question through executive-level client delivery, including decks, targeting strategies, and insight frameworks.
• Translate scientific, behavioral, and market dynamics into differentiated perspectives and action plans that inform client commercial decisions.
• Act as a trusted strategic partner to VP and C-suite stakeholders at Fortune 500 companies.
• Work across therapeutic areas and drug modalities, including pre-approval clinical trial recruitment and disease-state education, and post-approval precision marketing and HCP segmentation.
• Identify account growth opportunities and proactively bring forward strategic recommendations and expansion paths.
• Partner with data science, deployment, marketing, product/technology, and account management teams to embed insights across client relationships and the Vi platform.
• Own client relationships and work end to end, building, delivering, and iterating on the final product.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed