Director, Product Planning; NPP

Job Description

This position offers a candidate the opportunity to significantly contribute to the long-term commercial success of the portfolio. This position is responsible for providing commercially oriented guidance to early stage product opportunities through deep understanding of markets and ability to influence in matrixed organization.

This position offers a candidate the opportunity to significantly contribute to the long-term commercial success of the portfolio. This position is responsible for providing commercially oriented guidance to early stage product opportunities through deep understanding of markets and ability to influence in matrixed organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop forward-looking strategies, market positioning and product profiles for pipeline products by synthesizing primary and secondary inputs that will inform the development and lifecycle plan
• Co-lead (with development colleague) product teams through clinical development phases, working in conjunction with internal business partners (e.g. clinical, translational medicine, regulatory, research, commercial, CMC) to optimize the market value of asset
• Drive completion of NPP and market research initiatives, working closely with market research colleagues and the project teams
• Proactively monitor and generate insights from market developments and competitive landscape and incorporate insights across multiple perspectives (e.g. commercial, managed markets, clinical, and scientific)
• Generate market assessments, TPPs, and early forecasts to prioritize commercial indications for products in key therapeutic areas

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent; advanced science degree preferred
• 8 to 10+ years of pharmaceutical industry and/or consulting experience with extensive experience in commercially oriented roles, e.g. NPP, specialty pharmaceutical marketing strategy, market research.
• Experience in neuroscience preferred
• Extensive knowledge of new product development and planning/commercialization, including understanding of therapeutic markets from multiple customer perspectives (e.g., HCP, Payers, Patients) and different business perspectives (e.g., clinical, R&D, marketing)

• Strong ability to work, influence, and gain consensus across multiple functions (e.g. research, clinical, regulatory, translational medicine)
• Leadership presence and ability to interact effectively with multiple levels of the organization
• Significant analytic skills, able to clearly interpret and distill scientific, clinical and commercial information
• Understanding of key marketing and market research principles
• Proficiency with secondary research and databases
• Ability to effectively plan, prioritize, execute, follow up and anticipate challenges
• Excellent organization, communication (written and oral) and facilitation skills
• Self-motivated, builds trust easily and operates with integrity and ethics
• Demonstrated learning agility
• Strong history of delivering high quality, sustainable results using skills and capabilities

• Occasional travel 10%

Alkermes applies its decades of deep neuroscience expertise to develop medicines designed to help people living with complex and difficult-to-treat psychiatric and neurological disorders. A global biopharmaceutical company, headquartered in Ireland with U.S. locations in Massachusetts and Ohio, we seek to make a meaningful difference in the way people manage their diseases. We have a portfolio of proprietary commercial products for the treatment of alcohol dependence, opioid dependence, schizophrenia, bipolar I disorder and narcolepsy, and a pipeline of clinical and preclinical candidates in development for various psychiatric and neurological disorders.

We are proud to have been recognized as an employer of choice by many national organizations. In 2024 and 2025, we were certified as a Great Place to Work in the U.S. and named one of Massachusetts’ Top Places to Work by the Boston Globe, a Best Place to Work in Greater Cincinnati by the Cincinnati Business Courier and recognized as a Best Place to Work in Bio Pharma by Fortune Magazine.

Alkermes, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any qualified applicant or employee because of race, creed, color, age, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender expression and identity, disability, genetic information, veteran status,…