Sr Director, Global Market Insights

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals•Cambridge, MA

31d•Remote

About The Position

Alnylam is seeking a Senior Director to lead Global Market Research across the portfolio. This leader will define the vision for market insights, shape the research agenda, and elevate how insights inform strategy and decisions across brands and development stages. The role is accountable for building a high-performing research team, advancing patient and customer understanding, and developing scalable enterprise research standards and capabilities. The Senior Director will partner closely with Global and Regional Marketing, Competitive Intelligence, Advanced Analytics, Medical Affairs, and other key stakeholders while maintaining clear ownership of the market research perspective. Alnylam is the leader in RNAi therapeutics, a revolutionary approach with the potential to transform the lives of people with rare and common diseases. Built on Nobel Prize-winning science, Alnylam has delivered the breakthroughs that made RNAi therapeutics possible and are just at the beginning of what’s possible. Their deep pipeline, late-stage programs, and bold vision reflect their core values: fierce innovation, passion for excellence, purposeful urgency, open culture and commitment to people. They are proud to be a globally recognized top employer, where an authentic, inclusive culture and breakthrough thinking fuel one another.

Requirements

Advanced degree in Business, Life Sciences, Economics, Psychology, or a related field.
10+ years of experience in global market research.
Experience supporting both in‑line brands and pipeline assets across multiple disease areas.
Demonstrated application of behavioral economics, decision science, or related approaches to understanding and influencing human behavior.
Experience building and scaling research standards, processes, and enterprise capabilities.
Familiarity operating in a product‑oriented model, including defining capabilities, iterating based on impact, and partnering cross‑functionally.
Proven success leading teams and operating effectively in complex, matrixed global organizations.

Nice To Haves

Experience within the consumer packaged goods, technology, or biopharmaceutical industries.

Responsibilities

Serve as a strategic thought partner to global and regional commercial leaders by synthesizing research into clear, actionable insights that guide priorities and decisions.
Define and prioritize the market research agenda based on business needs, strategic decisions, and lifecycle milestones.
Synthesize insights and provide global and regional summaries; partner with commercial teams to align on implications and the “so what” behind findings.
Advance Alnylam’s understanding of patients and customers across disease areas, including diagnosis journeys, treatment decisions, barriers, and unmet needs.
Apply behavioral economics, decision science, and related frameworks to explain how and why behaviors occur in complex healthcare contexts.
Serve as a thought partner to marketing and commercialization teams to ensure patient and customer insights meaningfully shape strategy and execution.
Champion innovative and emerging research methodologies that deliver deeper insight into human behavior and decision‑making.
Design and oversee high‑quality qualitative and quantitative research across patients, HCPs, payers, and other stakeholders.
Set clear standards for research design, vendor management, analysis, and interpretation across the enterprise.
Establish and evolve enterprise-wide standards, processes, and ways of working for market research that scale across brands and geographies.
Build a consistent, repeatable approach for planning, executing, and applying research while enabling flexibility for franchise-specific needs.
Operate with a product mindset, continuously improving market research capabilities based on user needs, impact, and feedback.
Build, lead, and develop a high-performing global market research team.
Foster a culture of intellectual rigor, curiosity, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Partner effectively with Competitive Intelligence, Advanced Analytics, and other functions to integrate complementary perspectives while maintaining clear ownership of market research outputs.
Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, bringing clarity and confidence to complex strategic questions.