Senior Director, Business Insights and Analytics

Role Summary

Senior Director, Business Insights and Analytics at Alumis Inc. Location preference: South San Francisco. Leads the analytics function to support launch readiness and long-term commercial strategy, collaborating across Commercial, Marketing, Sales, Medical Affairs, and R&D.

Responsibilities

• Analytics Strategy & Capability Building: Define and implement a scalable analytics strategy to support launch readiness, lifecycle management, and commercial excellence. Build and lead teams across forecasting, insights, market research, and advanced analytics. Drive adoption of analytics across the organization and elevate data-driven decision-making culture.
• Launch Insights & Market Research: Lead generation of actionable insights to inform launch strategy, including customer segmentation, market landscape assessments, and stakeholder research (HCP, patient, payer). Translate insights into strategic recommendations to guide clinical, marketing, and access decisions.
• Forecasting & Commercial Planning: Oversee forecasting for pipeline and in-line assets across multiple indications and geographies. Develop scenario models and sensitivity analyses to inform strategic planning and resource allocation.
• Advanced Analytics & AI: Leverage AI/ML and advanced analytics (e.g., predictive modeling, patient journey analytics) to generate forward-looking insights and optimize commercial performance.
• Data Infrastructure & BI: Lead design and implementation of scalable data infrastructure and governance to support real-time reporting, analytics, and insight generation. Integrate multiple data sources (market research, secondary, claims, RWE) to deliver executive-level dashboards and strategic insights.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Commercial, Market Access, Medical Affairs, R&D, Finance, and Supply Chain to align analytics with business strategy and priorities. Lead enterprise-level data initiatives including Master Data Management and cross-functional analytics platforms.
• Portfolio & Lifecycle Strategy: Inform portfolio decisions across development continuum‚ÄîTPP refinement, indication prioritization, launch planning, and post-launch optimization.
• Executive Leadership & Influence: Serve as strategic advisor to the CCO and executive leadership on key commercial and investment decisions; represent analytics in senior forums.

Qualifications

• Required: BA or BS with 10+ years of data analysis, decision support, market research, and forecasting experience in pharmaceutical, biotech, or healthcare; ability to think strategically and act tactically; strong project management and multi-initiative coordination; understanding of insights/data in Marketing, Market Access, Medical Affairs across the brand lifecycle; experience collaborating with Digital/Technology teams; practical experience implementing and optimizing AI technologies in biotech/pharma.
• Preferred: MS or MBA.

Skills

• Data analysis
• Forecasting and modeling
• Market research and insights
• Advanced analytics and AI/ML
• Data governance and infrastructure
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Strategic advisory and executive communication

Education

• BA/BS required; MS or MBA preferred.

Additional Requirements

• Location: South San Francisco, CA; onsite Tue‚ÄìThu; open to remote with monthly onsite.