Executive Director, Field Operations Strategy & Excellence

Travere Therapeutics • San Diego, CA

9d • $246,000 - $332,000 • Remote

About The Position

The Executive Director, Field Operations Strategy & Excellence provides enterprise leadership for designing, deploying, and measuring the performance of Travere’s customer-facing commercial field organization. The role establishes the field model to support FILSPARI, pegtibatinase planning, and future portfolio growth, ensuring field investments lead to measurable business and patient impact.

The role owns field force strategy, structure and sizing, targeting, territory design, field performance analytics and reporting, incentive compensation strategy, sales force effectiveness initiatives, and launch deployment planning. It partners with Sales, Marketing, Omnichannel, Market Access, Patient Services, Forecasting, Commercial Analytics, Commercial Systems, Finance, Human Resources, Legal, and Compliance.

The Executive Director leads and develops teams across field operations, incentive compensation, field analytics, and patient and access analytics; serves as a senior Commercial Insights and Operations partner to Sales and other field leaders; and presents recommendations, performance insights, investment cases, and organizational tradeoffs to senior commercial and executive stakeholders. The position may require travel based on business needs and face-to-face work with customers and colleagues and/or onsite work in San Diego. The role is not 100% remote.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required; an equivalent combination of education and applicable job experience may be considered.
• 12 or more years of progressive experience in pharmaceutical or biotechnology commercial operations, field strategy, field force effectiveness, analytics, or a closely related function.
• Demonstrated leadership of field force sizing, structure, alignment, targeting, call planning, performance measurement, or incentive compensation strategy.
• Experience leading teams and influencing senior stakeholders across Sales, Marketing, Market Access, Finance, Human Resources, Legal, Compliance, and technology functions.
• Strong working knowledge of pharmaceutical commercial data, including CRM, claims, specialty pharmacy, hub or patient services, payer and access, and field activity data.
• Ability to translate complex analysis into clear business implications, decisions, and actions for executive and field audiences.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, executive presence, sound judgment, and ability to operate effectively in a rapidly changing environment.
• Ability to travel as business needs require.
• Ability to perform face-to-face work with customers and colleagues and/or work onsite in San Diego.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree in business, analytics, life sciences, or a related discipline.
• Experience supporting product launches and adapting field models as a company or portfolio grows.
• Rare disease, specialty, or nephrology experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a multi-year field strategy aligned with the commercial portfolio, brand priorities, customer needs, and expected launch sequence.
• Oversee field force sizing, role design, structure, coverage, territory alignment, and targeting across Sales, Access and Reimbursement Managers, Strategic Account Managers, Rare Kidney Disease Educators, Thought Leader Liaisons, and other customer-facing teams.
• Build deployment scenarios for pegtibatinase and future assets, including capability requirements, timing, resource implications, and organizational tradeoffs.
• Evaluate field investments and recommend changes to capacity, roles, territories, and customer coverage as business conditions evolve.
• Set the field performance measurement framework, including leading indicators, outcome measures, management reports, and executive-level performance reviews.
• Integrate field analytics, patient and access analytics, and business context to identify specific actions, owners, and expected outcomes.
• Partner with Commercial Analytics to align analytical methods, common definitions, measurement standards, and advanced analytics use cases.
• Ensure field dashboards and recurring reports answer priority business questions and reduce low-value reporting activity.
• Establish incentive compensation principles and provide strategic direction for plan design, goal setting, measurement, contests, awards, and plan evaluation.
• Provide senior oversight of the annual incentive compensation process.
• Chair or support incentive compensation governance and ensure plans align with business strategy, financial objectives, employee motivation, data quality, and applicable policies.
• Partner with Sales leadership, Finance, Human Resources, Legal, and Compliance on incentive plan recommendations and material changes.
• Provide strategic oversight of field operations, including alignment implementation, roster management, operational readiness, and process governance.
• Establish scalable operating standards that support additional indications, field roles, and future commercial assets without unnecessary complexity.
• Ensure field teams have clear roles, decision rights, data, tools, and operating processes before launches or major deployment changes.
• Identify operational risks early and coordinate cross-functional resolution of issues that could affect field execution or customer experience.
• Lead and develop a team spanning field operations, incentive compensation, field analytics, and patient and access analytics.
• Coach functional leaders to strengthen strategic thinking, analytical interpretation, executive communication, and succession readiness.
• Serve as the senior Commercial Insights and Operations partner to Sales and other field leadership teams.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to coordinate and integrate broader commercial initiatives with field-focused strategy and tools.
• Present recommendations, performance insights, investment cases, and organizational tradeoffs to senior commercial and executive stakeholders.
• Manage external partners and budgets, using internal and external capacity deliberately based on business need and required expertise.

Benefits

• Premium health, financial, work-life, and well-being offerings for eligible employees and dependents.
• Wellness and employee support programs.
• Life insurance.
• Disability benefits.
• Retirement plans with employer match.
• Generous paid time off.
• Cash compensation consisting of base pay and short-term incentive.
• Long-term incentive compensation in the form of company stock.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director