Senior Director, Market Insights

Amylyx Pharmaceuticals•Cambridge, MA

23h•$257,000 - $289,000•Remote

About The Position

Amylyx has an audacious mission to usher in a new era for treating diseases with high unmet needs. Where others see challenges, we see opportunities that we pursue with urgency, rigorous science, and unwavering commitment to the communities we serve. We are a clinical-stage company currently focused on post-bariatric hypoglycemia (PBH), Wolfram syndrome, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Our mission is powered by our people. Our core values – be audacious, be curious, be authentic, be engaged, and be accountable – creating a culture of caring. Amylyx has assembled an experienced team ready to take action because the communities we serve have no time to wait. If you share our passion and are determined to tackle some of medicine’s toughest problems, we encourage you to read the opportunity below and apply. The Opportunity The Senior Director, Market Insights is a highly visible, enterprise-level leadership role responsible for defining and driving the end-to-end insights strategy to support U.S. commercialization and global expansion. The Senior Director will serve as the strategic owner of the insights function, ensuring that market intelligence, analytics, and evidence generation are fully integrated into corporate decision-making across the product lifecycle. Reporting into the Vice President, Commercial Operations, the Senior Director will act as a key advisor to commercial and executive leadership, shaping commercial strategy through forward-looking insights that inform launch readiness, lifecycle management and portfolio prioritization. This role requires the ability to operate at both a strategy and operational level, building scalable capabilities and frameworks to support a multi-asset, multi-market organization.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree (PhD, MD, PharmD, or MBA) preferred
12+years of experience in pharmaceutical or biotech market research, insights, or analytics, with increasing levels of responsibility
Proven experience generating insights across the product lifecycle, including early-stage development, launch, and post-launch optimization
Demonstrated expertise in competitive intelligence, including conference coverage and strategic synthesis of competitor activity
Strong understanding of global market dynamics, including U.S. and ex-U.S. commercialization considerations
Experience building or scaling capabilities, functions, or operating models
Advanced analytical and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to translate complex data into actionable, enterprise-level decisions
Exceptional communication and executive presence
Strong vendor management, budget oversight, and project management skills
High degree of initiative, curiosity, and comfort with ambiguity in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment

Nice To Haves

Experience in endocrinology is preferred

Responsibilities

Define and own the enterprise-wide market insights strategy, aligning U.S. and ex-U.S. perspectives to support global commercialization and long-term portfolio growth, ensuring readiness across multiple markets and stakeholder groups
Lead and execute market research projects influencing key decisions related to product launch strategy, lifecycle planning, new product planning, and as necessary, key market access strategies; ensure project deliverables are actionable, archived, and accessible
Lead cross-functional integration of insight, ensuring alignment across Marketing, Medical, Market Access, Regulatory, R&D, and Executive Leadership to support decision-making
Build and scale the market insight’s function, including defining operating models, processes, tools, and governance to support increasing organizational complexity
Oversee and evolve global competitive intelligence strategy, ensuring proactive identification and ongoing communication of market shifts, competitive threats, and strategic opportunities
Partner with Business Development (BD) colleagues to rapidly build market assessments, competitive landscape modeling, value creation theses, and financial modeling to facilitate executive decision-making
Drive development of advanced analytics capabilities, including integration of primary research, real-world data, and secondary data sources into a cohesive insight ecosystem
Establish KPIs and measurement frameworks (customer engagement, brand tracking, etc.) to evaluate commercial effectiveness and inform ongoing strategic adjustments
Lead external partnerships and vendor strategy, including selection, governance, and optimization of research and analytics partners
Develop and mentor future capabilities, including team build-out as the organization scales
Lead insights efforts with a focus on post-bariatric hypoglycemia (PBH), Wolfram syndrome, progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)