Associate Director, Global Strategic Market Insights (Remote)

Role Summary

Location: Remote. The Associate Director, Global Strategic Market Insights is a key member of Jazz Pharmaceuticals' Global Commercial Development & Planning team. You will support decisions related to commercial assessments of pipeline products and market planning, including competitive readiness. The role requires experience with competitive intelligence, pipeline-related market research, and scenario planning/opportunity assessments, with the ability to develop and deliver a clear narrative to stakeholders and decision-makers.

Responsibilities

• Partner with key stakeholder groups to support strategic and tactical decision-making with high quality, insightful analysis that accurately and objectively reflect the voice of our customers and market dynamics to maximize the potential of Jazz’s current and future markets.
• Lead global insights and assessments to support market opportunities and readiness
  • Participate actively in global commercial development planning efforts by providing objective, in-depth analyses on current and future markets, customers, and competitors. May be an active member on various teams.
  • Provide high quality insights on the market environment for relevant disease areas based on publicly available brand and market information, non-publicly available market intelligence, and market research.
  • Reinforce market research best practices – develop proposals, identify market research sources, vendor options, and methodologies that address a business need. When appropriate, proactively challenges the design of research with internal team members and vendors to enhance strategic value.
  • Translate data and information into compelling insight stories. Frequently and proactively present research findings to promote awareness and action to drive business decisions, strategic plans.
  • Conduct commercial assessments and scenarios including researching key assumptions, uncertainties to support the forecast.
• Lead global competitive analysis and intelligence to support competitive readiness
  • Provide objective competitive assessments and analyses to align teams and enable effective and informed decision-making. This includes insights on dynamic market changes (shifting standard of care, emerging agents/trends, platforms, opportunities) and competition that impact business decisions and strategy.
  • Stay abreast of competitive landscapes and determine CI needs (threat assessments, benchmarking, timelines, reporting/alerts, primary, workshops, etc.) which may include leading a competitive readiness team and associated activities.
  • Drive competitive intelligence planning and reporting for key congress with internal partners.
  • Strategic thought partner and subject matter expert who will serve as the go-to for competitor insights. Frequently and proactively share knowledge of key competitors to promote awareness and readiness into business assumptions, strategic plans.
  • For all areas of this role, it is imperative to formulate an objective narrative and to communicate / adapt it for various audiences including executives.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across Global Product Commercialization, Commercial Development, Early/Late-Stage Development Teams, EU International groups, Commercial Regional Teams, Market Access, Medical Affairs, Forecasting, R&D, and Investor Relations.

Qualifications

• Required: Six years of relevant experience in biopharmaceutical business strategy, market or competitive intelligence, consulting, or combination. Oncology experience is preferred.
• Preferred: Experience operating in global markets and across the lifecycle of products (from early research through commercialization).
• Preferred: Track record functioning in a matrix environment and delivering results in market research, product analytics and/or forecasting, and competitive intelligence. Prior experience interacting with senior management highly preferred.
• Required: Fluency in understanding scientific and market data to identify patterns and opportunities. Broad experience in secondary and primary research methods and comfort with forecast and uncertainty modeling and methodologies.
• Required: Effective presenter and communicator.

Education

• BS/BA degree required; advanced degree in a life sciences related field strongly preferred (MS, MBA, PhD).

Additional Requirements

• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally as required by the role.