Director, Integrated Insights & Analytics - Rare Disease

About This Role

This is a hybrid position that requires in-person workdays weekly at our headquarters in Cambridge, MA. The Director, Integrated Insights & Analytics Lead - Rare Disease is a therapeutic area‑facing role that enables data‑driven decisions and proactively delivers actionable insights. The position allows you to shape the Rare Disease cross‑functional team, a top priority for Biogen North America, laying the groundwork for processes that can be scaled across other brand teams.

• Lead and manage the relationship with the Franchise Leadership Team in support of the insights lead.
• Drive the insights agenda: scope, lead, and deliver brand projects across core insights functions, including market research, forecasting support, competitive intelligence, brand analytics, and field analytics.
• Be a subject‑matter expert in forecasting, patient analytics, market research, and behavioral science, disrupting the thinking and introspection of brand performance.
• Deliver high quality ad hoc analyses that offer clear recommendations to drive brand strategy.
• Provide actionable insights to key stakeholders for short‑term resource allocation decisions and long‑term strategy development.
• Collaborate with Advanced Analytics, Orchestration, Business Intelligence and Operations teams to support brand execution initiatives.
• Lead Integrated Customer Plan (ICP) and Annual Operating Plan (AOP) to provide commercial teams with comprehensive performance, target‑audience, and market insights.
• Cultivate strong relationships and effective ways of working within the MS Marketing team.
• Pursue novel research methodologies that offer new capabilities and ways to optimize project efficiency.
• Partner with leadership to ensure key business decisions are data/fact‑based and to drive innovation in analytics and business execution.

• Exceptional leader and contributor passionate about being part of a high‑performance team that prioritizes and delivers on the needs of core partnering functions.
• High analytical horsepower: comfortable sourcing, manipulating, analyzing, displaying data; effective presenter and defender of analyses.
• Strong ability to use data and research to diagnose issues and test hypotheses for the commercial team.
• Project and deliverable management expertise: proficiency with gathering and synthesizing qualitative and quantitative inputs into actionable insights.
• Advanced strategic thinking and innovation: design and identify the ideal approach to complex business questions, anticipate next questions from management.
• Excellent communication: deliver information succinctly in verbal and written communication for executive audiences.
• High partner‑function orientation: acts as a thought partner to marketing, sales and other functional teams.
• Collaboration:
  
  gather required information for analyses and act as a value‑added cross‑functional partner.
• Deals well with ambiguity and intensity: operates in fast‑paced, senior‑leadership‑driven environment.
• Independence: manage workload with limited guidance and scope priorities independently.

• 10+ years of relevant experience with a life sciences company or consulting firm supporting the healthcare industry; consulting background strongly preferred.
• Rare Disease experience highly preferred.
• Solid understanding of commercial business and industry standard datasets (IQVIA, Symphony, Specialty Pharmacies, Managed Care).
• Master’s degree preferred.
• Job level: management.

Base compensation range: $196,000 – $270,000. Regular employees eligible for short‑term and long‑term incentives, including cash bonus and equity.

Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life insurance; fitness & wellness program; short‑ and long‑term disability; minimum 15 days paid vacation + end‑of‑year shutdown; up to 12 company paid holidays + 3 personal days; 80 hours sick time; paid maternity and parental leave; 401(k) with company match; employee stock purchase plan; tuition reimbursement up to $10,000; employee resource groups.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, race, color, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. Biogen is an E‑Verify Employer in the United States.