Executive Director, Head of Strategic Market Insights

Responsibilities Shape the end-to-end market insights agenda to inform brand, franchise, and portfolio decisions across the lifecycle. Serve as a trusted, consultative advisor to senior leadership and cross-functional teams. Translate market, patient, and customer insights into clear, actionable recommendations that drive competitive advantage and sustainable growth. Functional vision, strategy, and operating model Define and drive the long-range market insights vision, operating model, and ways of working aligned with brand, franchise, and corporate priorities. Establish and maintain enterprise-wide standards, governance, and operating principles for market insights. Design and execute the annual Market Insights functional plan; align resources and budgets with business needs. Build scalable capabilities, frameworks, and knowledge management systems to maximize impact on portfolio expansion and future product launches. Champion advanced analytics, digital, and AI-enabled approaches in partnership with Forecasting and cross-functional analytics partners. Leadership, talent, and culture Lead, develop, and inspire a high-performing market insights team; hire and onboard new talent. Coach and develop direct reports; elevate team capabilities through mentoring, training, and stretch assignments. Create a culture of accountability; set performance standards and elevate risks to quality and timelines. Drive rigorous, data-driven debate with senior stakeholders. Insights strategy and execution Own integrated, end-to-end market insights strategies and plans for brands and pipeline programs. Validate and maintain long-term insights roadmaps across the product lifecycle and key stakeholder groups. Ensure research quality and appropriate methodologies (qualitative/quantitative primary research, secondary data, analytics, competitive intelligence). Pressure test conclusions; translate findings into actionable strategic recommendations. Provide forward-looking analysis on macro shifts, policy changes, and competitive moves; proactively elevate risks and opportunities. Monitor KPIs for impact and operational excellence; drive continuous improvement. Identify and manage strategic partnerships with agencies, vendors, and experts. Synthesize complex information quickly into simple, actionable narratives and options. Connect non-obvious dots across markets, customers, internal data, and competitive moves to surface risks, opportunities, and inflection points. Cross-functional partnership and enterprise impact Oversee insights team as principal advisors and single points of contact from Insights & Analytics to assigned brands, franchises, and initiatives. Partner with Commercial, Medical Affairs, Market Access, Government Affairs, Supply, R&D, and others to pull insights into brand/lifecycle plans and portfolio strategy. Provide executive-level recommendations to senior leadership on market trends, customer dynamics, and competitive activity. Lead or co-lead strategic initiatives and ad hoc projects (e.g., new indication, product, or market evaluations, scenario analyses, go-to-market strategy questions). Reconcile dissenting views and negotiate or persuade on complex topics using high emotional intelligence. Partner with executives to shape policies, investment priorities, and resource allocation. Qualifications / Requirements Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred. 15+ years of pharma/biotech experience in market insights or related roles. Demonstrated success leading integrated market insights strategy for specialty and/or rare disease therapies. Experience in Neurology and Cardiology; broad and rare disease markets strongly preferred. Proven track record building and leading scalable, high-performing teams (including people leaders). Diverse commercial background (e.g., Marketing, Sales, Strategy, or Market Access) strongly preferred. Ability to lead through ambiguity; create structure; synthesize data into coherent, actionable narratives. Deep experience in U.S. market launches required; global market insights experience preferred. Strong executive presence; ability to influence VP/EVP-level decisions. High emotional intelligence; proven ability to reconcile views, negotiate tradeoffs, and balance enterprise, functional, and brand needs. Excellent judgment; willingness to take prudent risks grounded in objective data. Innate curiosity and entrepreneurial spirit; strong ownership. Proven ability to learn quickly on new therapeutic areas, markets, methods and to raise the bar. Ability to operate in a high-velocity, fast-changing environment. Exceptional conceptual thinking and pattern recognition. Benefits Pay scale: $230,000 to $265,000. #J-18808-Ljbffr Scorpion Therapeutics