Position Summary:
The Associate Director, Competitive Intelligence generates timely, objective, actionable competitive intelligence to support organizational decision-making.
Responsibilities:
- Monitor external scientific, clinical, regulatory, commercial, financial, partnership, and competitive developments relevant to Travereβs portfolio.
- Develop and maintain competitive landscape assessments, competitor profiles, asset summaries, clinical trial trackers, timelines, and intelligence resources.
- Identify and communicate significant competitive developments, emerging trends, and industry changes.
- Gather, evaluate, and synthesize information from literature, trial databases, regulatory agencies, congress presentations, disclosures, and other public sources.
- Prepare competitive intelligence reports, presentations, executive summaries, trackers, and recurring updates.
- Lead planning and execution for scientific/medical congresses (pre-, during, and post-congress analyses).
- Maintain intelligence repositories, monitoring systems, and knowledge management resources.
- Partner with Commercial, Medical Affairs, Regulatory Affairs, Clinical Development, Research, and others.
- Respond to ad hoc requests and support cross-functional planning with evidence-based insights.
- Improve CI processes, workflows, templates, and reporting; evaluate AI-enabled tools.
- Manage relationships with external intelligence vendors/consultants; ensure activities follow policies and ethical standards.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Education/Experience Requirements:
- Bachelorβs in Life Sciences (advanced degree preferred); equivalent education/experience considered.
- At least 8 years in biotech/pharma/life sciences consulting, competitive intelligence, scientific/medical/commercial strategy, or related.
Additional/Required Skills:
- Strong drug development, clinical research, regulatory pathways, commercialization, and biotech industry knowledge.
- Ability to gather/evaluate/synthesize diverse information into clear insights.
- Experience leading CI projects and managing multiple workstreams under time pressure.
- Excellent analytical, writing, verbal, presentation, and organizational skills.
- Ability to communicate complex information to cross-functional stakeholders.
- Ability to travel up to 10% and work onsite in San Diego (not 100% remote).
Preferred Skills/Experience:
- Experience in rare disease, nephrology, rare metabolic diseases, or specialty pharmaceuticals.
- CI congress planning/execution; cross-functional support across the drug development lifecycle.
- Experience building competitive landscapes, asset/company profiles, clinical trial trackers, and recurring updates.
- Experience leveraging AI and emerging technologies.
Benefits:
- Premium health, financial, work-life/well-being offerings; wellness/support programs; life insurance; disability; retirement plans with match; generous paid time off.
Compensation:
- Target base pay range: $150,000β$195,000.
Application Instructions:
- Travere accepts applications on an ongoing basis until a candidate is selected.