Executive Director, Commercial Insights & Analytics - Neurology

Executive Director, Commercial Insights and Analytics (I&A), Neurology

Regeneron is seeking an Executive Director, Commercial Insights and Analytics (I&A), Neurology to join our organization!

In this role, a typical day might include:

The Executive Director, Commercial Insights and Analytics (I&A), Neurology, will report directly into the Vice President, Commercial Strategy and Insights & Analytics (CSI&A) within the CSI&A department. This role will lead the I&A team responsible for the Neurology Commercial Business Unit (CBU) to drive deeper insights that inform business decisions.

This role might be for you if you can:

Lead

• Lead and mentor the CSI&A Neurology team in providing business analytics, customer insights and competitive intelligence to deliver rich insights to solve key business problems
• Set the strategic I&A direction that aligns with CBU priorities and helps drive launch excellence
• Serve as a member of the Neurology CBU Leadership Team, providing I&A expertise
• Serve as a member of the CSI&A leadership team to drive cross-commercial innovation and best-in-class delivery

Develop

• Translate complex analyses into compelling insights and recommendations for business decision-making
• Develop people from both a functional skills and leadership perspective, with the goal of growing internal talent
• Assess and implement novel methodologies and frameworks to a) garner meaningful insights to inform upcoming launch plans; and b) enhance brand differentiation and impact at launch and beyond

Partnership and collaboration

• Collaborate with the Neurology CBU and other members of senior leadership to contribute to Commercialization roadmap, including long-term data, analytics and insights roadmap
• Develop and maintain a mutually beneficial partnership with CBU stakeholders; ensure insight generation and feedback are embraced; strike a balance between project rigor, timelines and ability to influence decisions
• Lead efforts to identify and crystalize insights that inform strategic plans for the Neurology CBU
• Work with other CSI&A leads to develop standardized adoption of capabilities such as marketing mix, promotional optimization, data science, market structure analyses, patient/treatment flow modeling, analog modeling and ML/AI methodologies across I&A

Execute

• Proactively communicate with the Neurology CBU and provide strategic recommendations and insights as well as anticipated future needs
• Construct and deliver integrated business reviews, I&A summary overviews with the Neurology CBU and with CSI&A leadership
• Manage third-party vendor relationships

To be considered for this opportunity, you must have the following:

• 20+ years of pharmaceutical/biotech commercial experience, in roles of increasing accountability; prior experience with launch brands in highly competitive markets is required
• Minimum Bachelor's degree in data science, public health, statistics, engineering, or a related field
• Functional expertise in business analytics, customer insights, analog forecast development, market access, and competitive intelligence
• Prior experience managing I&A groups with responsibility for analytics, customer insights, market access analytics, and competitive intelligence, preferably across both buy-and-bill and Rx environments
• Demonstrated knowledge of the legal and regulatory environment, as it relates to commercialization in the pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry
• Knowledge of data industry standards
• Proven ability to influence, communicate and negotiate with all levels of management across functional and business unit boundaries
• Extensive experience with managing numerous projects concurrently against stringent deadlines
• Prior experience working with I&A projects and initiatives where a balance between project rigor and timeliness was needed
• Ability to think strategy to execution with hands on experience in implementing large initiatives with cross-functional stakeholders
• Expertise in data visualization and data storytelling
• Strong interpersonal, facilitation and communication skills, with the ability to resolve conflict, drive consensus and work across multiple departments
• Strong organizational, project management, influencing and change management skills
• Proven ability to manage multiple project and priorities concurrently, while meeting stringent deadlines

Preferred skills:

• Master's (MBA, MPH, MS) preferred
• Neurology disease category experience is desired
• Experience with forecasting, especially the use of launch analogs