Associate Director, Business Integrated Insights, Neuroscience

The Associate Director, Business Integrated Insights, Neuroscience serves as a strategic partner to the Neuroscience Business Unit and Brand Teams by generating customer, market, and product insights derived from primary market research, secondary data analytics, and competitive intelligence. This position will report to the Director, Integrated Insights, Neuroscience.

The person in this role will identify, prioritize, execute, and present the analyses and corresponding insights needed to make strategic decisions that improve the performance of aligned brands. The role will also measure brand performance, support brand planning, and act as a key stakeholder in developing and executing brand strategy.

This is a critical role in helping the Integrated Insights team to deliver on its mission to provide not only facts and data, but insights and implications that drive growth. This role will directly contribute to the performance of the inline business and pre-launch activities for Dysport and represent the voices of our stakeholders (patients and HCPs) in making critical business decisions.

This is an exciting opportunity for an individual to work across a brand at different lifecycle stages and actively participate in a potential launch.

• Define and manage scope of work and budget for primary market research and CI
• Track the Neuroscience learning agenda to ensure research and analytics needs are executed in a timely manner
• Lead projects and coordinate project logistics, timelines, research materials development, and deliverable creation
• Deliver effective presentations of findings and recommendations to multiple levels of leadership, creating visual displays of quantitative and qualitative information
• Collaborate with and influence internal stakeholders to process and prioritize new insights and analytics requests, and provide feedback on vendor performance
• Participate as a key thought partner to the brand team by challenging assumptions and identifying key risks and opportunities
• Collaborate closely with the Integrated Insights team and cross-functional partners across the brand and business
• Develop and maintain a market intelligence repository to serve as a single source of truth for the Neuroscience team

• Ability to transition easily from data and observations to insights and practical business considerations
• Ability to anticipate internal and external business challenges and recommend process, product, or service improvements
• High degree of creativity and innovation in developing new approaches, processes, and methodologies
• Clear understanding of the changing healthcare marketplace
• Ability to effectively perform all functions in adherence with legal, compliance, and regulatory guidelines in the pharmaceutical industry
• Ability to contribute to the development of functional strategy to assist business areas in defining their information strategy
• Experience in leading cross functional, matrixed project teams to achieve milestones and objectives
• Strong oral and written communication, interpersonal, public relations, facilitation, management, decision making, collaboration, and organizational skills
• Ability to work in a hybrid structure, including working from our Cambridge, MA office multiple days per week

Knowledge & Experience (essential):

• Minimum 8+ years of pharmaceutical and/or life sciences experience,
• At least 3 years of client-side (or in-house) experience in data analytics / forecasting, primary market research, and/or competitive intelligence
• Demonstrated success using research to drive insights and strategic implications that lead to business decisions
• Thorough understanding of the commercialization of…