Director, Forecasting & Customer Insights

DIRECTOR FORECASTING & CUSTOMER INSIGHTS

Location: Princeton NJ onsite 4x a week

About Summit:

Summit Therapeutics Inc. is a biopharmaceutical oncology company with a mission focused on improving quality of life increasing potential duration of life and resolving serious unmet medical needs. At Summit we believe in building a team of world class professionals who are passionate about this mission and it is our people who drive this mission to reality. Summits core values include integrity passion for excellence purposeful urgency collaboration and our commitment to people. Our employees are truly the heart and soul of our culture and they are invaluable in shaping our journey toward excellence.

Summits team is inspired to touch and help change lives through Summits clinical studies in the field of oncology. Summit has multiple global Phase 3 clinical studies including:

Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)

• HARMONi: Phase 3 clinical study which was intended to evaluate ivonescimab combined with chemotherapy compared to placebo plus chemotherapy in patients with EGFR-mutated locally advanced or metastatic non-squamous NSCLC who were previously treated with a 3rd generation EGFR TKI.

• HARMONi-3: Phase 3 clinical study which is intended to evaluate ivonescimab combined with chemotherapy compared to pembrolizumab combined with chemotherapy in patients with first-line metastatic NSCLC.

• HARMONi-7: Phase 3 clinical study which is intended to evaluate ivonescimab monotherapy compared to pembrolizumab monotherapy in patients with first-line metastatic NSCLC.

Colorectal Cancer (CRC)

• HARMONi-GI3: Phase 3 clinical study intended to evaluate ivonescimab in combination with chemotherapy compared with bevacizumab plus chemotherapy.

Ivonescimab is an investigational therapy not presently approved by any regulatory authority other than Chinas National Medical Products Administration (NMPA). Summit is headquartered in Miami Florida and has additional offices in California New Jersey the UK and Ireland.

Overview of Role:

The Director of Forecasting and Customer Insights will play a pivotal role in driving the success of our commercial strategies and ensuring operational excellence within our pharmaceutical company. This role will be responsible for various aspects of commercial including forecasting modeling both US and Global CMC vial modeling customer insights to inform forecast (Demand Studies) and other market research responsibilities directed towards the launch of ivonescimab.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Develop forecasting models in oncology by tumor for both US and Global eventually moving from an annualized strategic model to a month over month launch model.

• Translate the commercial forecast model into a CMC model providing insights to CMC for demand of vials and 3PL inventories.

• Conduct Market Research to gain customer insights to inform the forecast including Patient Journey Driver and Barriers and ATUs that will lead to Qual and Quant demand studies to more accurately predict the forecast.

• Conduct market analysis and assess the competitive landscape to identify opportunities & risks and collaborate with key stakeholders (CMC Marketing Finance Ops and Sr Management) on revising forecast and assumptions.

• Translate commercial questions into customer insight/market research plans to address critical questions

• Work with Operations to evaluate go to market models and optimizing field territories

• All other duties as assigned

Experience Education and Specialized Knowledge and Skills:

• Bachelors degree in business administration marketing or related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred.

• A minimum of 10 years of experience market research and forecasting expertise within the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry with a track record of success in strategic planning and execution

• Experience in oncology solid tumor forecasting is required with experience in forecasting IO products preferred.

• Strong analytical skills and ability to translate data into actionable insights.

• Experience working with Veeva/Veeva Compass IQVIA Medidata Salesforce or other analytical data bases and Microsoft Suite

• Excellent leadership and communication skills with the ability to effectively collaborate across functions and influence stakeholders at all levels especially CMC. Finance and Commercial (sales and marketing).

• In-depth knowledge of pharmaceutical sales processes market dynamics and regulatory environment.

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced dynamic environment and adapt to changing priorities

The pay range for this role is $200000-$240000 annually. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate including but not limited to skill set depth of experience certifications and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor. The total compensation package for this position may also include bonus stock benefits and/or other applicable variable compensation.

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