Director, Managed Markets Analytics

Vera Therapeutics is a late clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing treatments for serious immunological diseases. The Director Managed Market Analytics will support the Access and Value team to inform product strategies, conduct business analysis, and generate insights that influence commercial success.

Responsibilities:

• Partner across commercial teams and leadership to identify and communicate insights, strategic business implications, and actionable recommendations in support of current inline and future pipeline assets
• Integration of insight and analysis from a variety of sources such as primary market research, competitive intelligence, and secondary data to provide actionable opportunities, risks, and strategy assessments
• Extract, mine, and synthesize secondary data analysis to discover insights focused on guiding strategic decisions and optimization opportunities by geography, payer, customer segments
• Deliver market, customer, and product insights that are actionable and support the achievement of Access and Value goals
• Uncover business insights by asking challenging questions, developing hypotheses, and drawing analytical conclusions to provide actionable intelligence to relevant cross-functional stakeholders to support business performance and planning
• Monitor market, environmental, and competitive activity to provide proactive analysis on the potential impact and implications are reflected and communicated in a timely manner
• Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Operations to support the optimization of brand planning, go to market strategy, customer segmentation, targeting, alignment, call planning, resource allocation, and provide insight for current and potential product launches
• Aid in the design, execution, and delivery of primary market research programs and activities
• Analyze, interpret, and synthesize with secondary data & primary market research to provide a holistic analytical approach to commercial insights
• Support the assessment of Commercial strategies and tactics to quantify ROI and make recommendations to optimize the use of existing/future resources
• Partner with our payer team on contract analytics
• Partner wit our finance team on GTN’s analysis and profitable access contracts

Requirements:

• Minimum of 5-10+ years of experience within analytics, commercial operations, forecasting, management consulting, or related functional experience within the bio-pharmaceutical industry required
• In-depth experience working with secondary syndicated health care data
• Experience translating disparate and sometimes ambiguous data sets into actionable insights
• Advanced skills with Excel and data mining/analysis; proficiency using data manipulation software and programming (e.g. Tableau, Python, SQL, R)
• Solid conceptual thinking - ability to analyze large amounts of information and extract insights
• High degree of emotional intelligence, displaying candor and integrity
• Understanding of common qualitative and quantitative market research methodologies
• Background in marketing analytics or a decision sciences function and experience with advanced quantitative methods (e.g. segmentation, predictive modeling)
• Possess intellectual curiosity and strong analytical thinking skills to drive insights and strategic implications that lead to business decisions, and be willing to support building key analytical capabilities in a fast paced, start-up environment
• Strong internal/external team management and proven ability to lead strategy around model optimization
• Demonstrate a structured approach to solution-oriented thinking (i.e. - diagnosing the problem, analyzing alternatives, recommending and implementing best solutions, follow-through)
• Ability to combine primary data sources and secondary market research insights to support sales and marketing strategies and forecasting
• Exceptional organizational, time, and task management Ability to prioritize critical tasks and maintain a high degree of accuracy amid competing deadlines
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to regularly present concise executive summaries, structured syntheses of insights and business recommendations to senior leadership
• Ability to effectively perform all functions in adherence with legal, compliance and regulatory guidelines in the pharmaceutical industry
• Start-up and launch experience a plus