Associate Director, NA Cystic Fibrosis Analytics & Reporting

Job Description

General Summary:

Vertex is seeking to hire an Associate Director NA Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Analytics & Reporting to join the North America Forecasting Analytics and Insights team in the Commercial organization. This role will provide analytics support for strategic commercial initiatives by identifying and quantifying market drivers barriers and opportunities using advanced analytical methods. Additionally this role will provide support for ongoing analytics quantitative tracking and reporting of national and sub-national commercial performance of the NA CF business. This individual will work cross-functionally and lead requirement gathering development execution and insight generation for performance analytics dashboards and present insights to stakeholders.

The ideal candidate must be a skilled experienced individual contributor and demonstrate the ability to communicate complex concepts to a wide variety of stakeholders. This candidate must possess a high degree of attention to detail and accuracy in creating deliverables and must be self-directed in engaging with colleagues. Additionally this candidate must be able to strategize collaborate and manage relationships with our many cross-functional partners.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work with CF BU stakeholders to identify existing or planned initiatives that would benefit from additional analytics support and collaboratively create and execute analytics plans to deliver actionable insights

• Design & operate an analytical engine to identify & quantify drivers barriers and opportunities in the market using advanced statistical / ML methodology

• Lead commercial KPI tracking reporting and analytics processes end-to-end with primary focus on US CF (e.g. working with IT partners to develop Power BI dashboards prepare PPT presentations or other similar materials)

• Contribute to answering ad-hoc analytics questions as they arise from the BU and other stakeholders; work to understand questions and define appropriate data & analytics approaches

• Develop and leverage deep understanding of available data sets and work with partners to ingest process and analyze data for reporting and analytics

• Generate and deliver actionable insights to key stakeholders including collaborating with other analytical partners at Vertex

• Work collaboratively with cross-functional stakeholders including but not limited to US Marketing Global Marketing US Market Access US Finance and Commercial Sales Operations

Knowledge and Skills:

• Proficiency with complex Excel modeling and analyzing and developing insights from large data sets leveraging relevant tools such as SQL python SAS VBA etc.

• Proficiency working with wide array of commercial pharma data sets including data sets such as IQVIA (or equivalent from different data vendor) patient claims data and internally generated sales / marketing data (e.g. field call data from CRM)

• Experience building and maintaining KPI reporting dashboards within the pharma/biotech industry using tools such as Power BI

• Strong analytical and business acumen: intellectual curiosity motivation and ability to structure problems diagnose issues and triangulate with multiple approaches while keeping sight of the big picture

• Experience working with senior leadership to support insights generation and communication financial forecasting and analytics and/or commercial launch planning

• Ability to quickly and thoughtfully adapt to new and evolving business and planning needs

Education and Experience:

• Masters degree in a quantitative discipline required (Engineering Statistics Economics Finance Science) or equivalent experience

• 7-10 years in biotech/pharmaceuticals in a quantitative role in Commercial / Corporate Strategy / BD and/or 4 years in a relevant consulting role (management strategic or economic consulting) post-MBA/PhD with meaningful biotech/pharmaceuticals and quantitative decision support experience.

Pay Range:

Disclosure Statement:

Flex Designation:

Flex Eligibility Status:

In this Hybrid-Eligible role you can choose to be designated as:
1. Hybrid: work remotely up to two days per week; or select
2. On-Site: work five days per week on-site with ad hoc flexibility.

Note: The Flex status for this position is subject to Vertexs Policy on Flex @ Vertex Program and may be changed at any time.

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Company Information

Vertex is a global biotechnology company that invests in scientific innovation.

Vertex is committed to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a persons race color sex gender identity or expression age religion national origin ancestry ethnicity disability veteran status genetic information sexual orientation marital status or any characteristic protected under applicable law. Vertex is an E-Verify Employer in the United States. Vertex will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities in accordance with applicable law.

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