Senior Manager, Competitive Intelligence

Nuvalent, Inc.•Cambridge, MA

About The Position

With deep expertise in chemistry, Nuvalent is working to create selective medicines designed with the goal to address the needs of patients with cancer. Nuvalent is an exciting early-stage company, bringing together experienced scientists and industry veterans with a proven track record in drug discovery, oncology drug development, and company building. The Role: Reporting to the Associate Director, Corporate Strategy, the Senior Manager, Competitive Intelligence (CI), will support CI activities across Nuvalent's portfolio. CI is a key function within Nuvalent, and this role is a great opportunity to have broad visibility across the organization. The key focus for this role is driver mutated solid tumors, particularly ALK+, ROS1+, and HER2m NSCLC. The role also includes monitoring of the strategies, programs, and capabilities of competitors in research, development, and promotional areas, as well as overall industry trends. Within this role, you will support decision making, foster a competitive mindset, and collaborate with a broad cross-functional group of therapeutic area partners (including Commercial, Medical Affairs, Clinical, Discovery, Regulatory, and Legal) as well as Senior Leadership. You will be responsible for collecting, synthesizing, and delivering key insights and implications to our business in the competitive environment, related to marketed products, pipeline assets, and external opportunities. These activities are structured around key strategic business questions that you will define in partnership with the Corporate Strategy team and relevant cross-functional stakeholders.

Requirements

Knowledge regarding the drug development and commercialization process in order to assess and contextualize competitive efforts, particularly in oncology
Ability to interpret and synthesize pre-clinical and clinical scientific data and identify broader implications for our programs and / or specific opportunities.
Strong relationship management skills with internal stakeholders and external contacts and resources.
Proven ability to present at and facilitate small-group and large-group meetings (with peers as well as superiors) to achieve pre-defined objectives.
History of effective written communication skills (including both PowerPoint and Word/email mediums).
Excellent task management skills (specifically project planning, prioritization, objective setting, meeting management and plan execution) are required.
Bachelor’s degree or related experience
3-5 years of experience in pharma/biotech/life sciences consulting
Experience in use of online data sources and scientific/market databases (e.g., PubMed, clinicaltrials.gov, TrialTrove, AlphaSense, etc.)
History of independence in researching, formulating, and delivering CI assessments (including basic information as well as strategic insights based on that information).

Responsibilities

Utilizing systematic processes to gather and summarize competitive information that is relevant to Nuvalent's business needs
Providing context and objective analysis of competitive (commercial, clinical, and scientific) information to enable actions and business decision-making
Building and updating databases on competitive landscape
Providing medical conference coverage, some travel may be required
Evaluating and making recommendations on CI tools, processes, and services, and as needed, manage third party agencies/projects to source relevant CI
Presenting key competitive information to teams and leadership throughout the organization through oral and written communication
Participate in the formulation of product/franchise strategies based on data and insights derived from CI, market research, and forecasting analyses.