Senior Director, Commercial Analytics & Decision Science
About The Position
Travere Therapeutics is seeking a Senior Director, Commercial Analytics and Decision Science to build and lead a centralized commercial analytics capability that turns complex data into clear business decisions. This leader will shape how the company measures performance, identifies growth opportunities, evaluates commercial investments, and prepares for future launches across its growing rare disease portfolio. The role integrates patient, prescriber, account, access, promotional, and performance analytics; establishes an advanced analytics roadmap; and leads a small, growing team. The Senior Director reports to the Vice President, Commercial Insights and Operations and partners closely with Forecasting, Market Insights, Field Operations and Excellence, Commercial Systems and Data, Sales, Marketing, Patient Access, and Finance. The successful candidate combines analytical depth with commercial judgment and a practical, hands-on leadership style, constructively challenging unclear requests and focusing teams on important decisions while building scalable capabilities and meeting near-term business needs.
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 analytics, decision science, data science, business insights, or a related function, including people leadership.
- Demonstrated experience across several commercial analytics areas, such as brand performance, patient journeys, customer segmentation, promotional response, access, launch analytics, or field effectiveness.
- Strong knowledge of pharmaceutical commercial data, including claims, specialty pharmacy, hub or patient services, CRM and field activity, payer and access, laboratory, digital, and promotional data.
- Experience applying advanced analytical methods and translating technical work into practical business recommendations.
- Proven ability to prioritize competing needs, lead teams and partners, influence cross-functional stakeholders, and maintain analytical quality in a fast-moving environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, executive presence, intellectual curiosity, and sound commercial judgment.
- Ability to travel as needed.
- Ability to perform face-to-face work with customers and colleagues and/or work onsite in San Diego; the role is not 100% remote.
Nice To Haves
- Advanced degree in analytics, statistics, data science, economics, business, life sciences, or a related discipline.
- Experience supporting product launches and scaling analytics capabilities in a growing organization.
- Rare disease, specialty, or nephrology experience.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute the commercial analytics and decision science strategy for current brands, new indications, and future assets.
- Create an integrated view of commercial performance across demand generation, pull-through, patient identification, referrals, starts, access, conversion, persistence, prescriber behavior, accounts, promotion, and field execution.
- Lead analyses that explain performance drivers, quantify opportunities and risks, and translate findings into clear recommendations for commercial and executive leaders.
- Guide analytical support for business reviews, launch planning, annual planning, customer strategy, and post-launch performance evaluation.
- Build a practical advanced analytics roadmap spanning customer segmentation, patient journey analytics, promotional response, predictive modeling, next best action, and resource optimization.
- Establish a common intake and prioritization process that focuses analytics resources on the highest-value business questions and reduces duplicative or low-value work.
- Set standards for key performance indicators, analytical methods, business definitions, documentation, and quality, while simplifying recurring reports and dashboards.
- Partner with Forecasting, Market Insights, Field Operations and Excellence, and Commercial Systems and Data to connect insights, forecasts, field decisions, and data capabilities.
- Lead, coach, and develop the Commercial Analytics team and manage external analytics partners and investments.
- Communicate complex findings clearly and compellingly to support timely decisions and action.
Benefits
- Premium health, financial, work-life, and well-being offerings for eligible employees and dependents.
- Wellness and employee support programs.
- Life insurance and 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
