Associate Director, Pain Forecasting

Role Summary

Vertex is seeking to hire an Associate Director, Pain Forecasting to join the North America Forecasting, Analytics and Market Research team in the Commercial organization. This role provides forecasting support and associated analytics for the ongoing pain launch and any future launches in pain across North America. The ideal candidate is a skilled, experienced individual contributor with a demonstrated ability to develop and maintain complex models using both top-down and bottom-up forecasting techniques, strong attention to detail, and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional partners.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and continuously improve demand forecast models leveraging top-down and bottom-up approaches to provide an overall forecast and additional detail on depth and breadth of prescribing across customer segments
• Leverage all available research and analytics from within the team and cross-functionally to create and update forecasting assumptions
• Work cross-functionally to coordinate and integrate demand forecast models with gross-to-net, market access, and financial models to ensure alignment and consistency of assumptions
• Leverage forecast models to support demand and financial modeling for new opportunities under evaluation by the BU
• Ensure outputs of each forecasting period are clearly communicated to downstream processes (e.g., supply chain) and forecasting data is readily available to required stakeholders within the Pain BU
• Contribute to the advancement of forecasting capabilities at Vertex

Qualifications

• Proficiency with complex Excel forecast models, and experience integrating forecast models with other cross-functional models; experience pulling data from a data warehouse to support forecasting (e.g., SQL)
• Proficiency working with wide array of commercial pharma data sets, including data sets such as IQVIA (or equivalent from different data vendor) XPONENT PlanTrak, DDD, LAAD (patient claims data)
• Experience forecasting products competing in large, complex markets and experience across both retail and hospital products
• Strong analytical and business acumen: intellectual curiosity, motivation and ability to structure problems, diagnose issues and triangulate with multiple approaches
• Experience working with analytics and forecasting leadership to evaluate and pressure-test assumptions and communicate forecasting outputs to business leadership
• Ability to quickly and thoughtfully adapt to new and evolving business and planning needs

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative discipline required (e.g., Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Finance, Business Analytics) or equivalent experience
• 7–10 years of experience in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry, 6+ years of insights, forecasting, and/or analytics is required