Senior Director, Market Research, HIV Prevention Integrated Insights

* Lead, manage, develop, coach, and grow a high performing team that demonstrates strong market research competencies with healthcare providers and consumers and delivers results.
* Lead market research strategy, planning, vendor contracts and manage the functional budget.
* Engages with key US marketing and cross-functional stakeholders to develop and execute market research to shape the strategies and tactics critical to successfully meet business objectives.
* Demonstrate experience generating superior customer market research insights, individually and through direct reports, to provide a competitive advantage.
* Ensure team provides HIV Prevention expertise and consulting advice in areas of critical business need including identification of optimal pre- and post-launch brand strategies and marketing tactics.
* Demonstrates broad cross functional leadership. Manage cross-functional collaboration processes to ensure development of insightful market research plans that systematically and holistically address brands’ strategic objectives and tactical requirements.
* Represent HIV Prevention Integrated Insights function at appropriate senior level meetings and make recommendations to advance the portfolio based on a sound knowledge of the marketplace.
* Shares best practices across market research and brand marketing teams and fosters agility and continuous improvement within the group to address emerging and shifting priorities of the commercial business.
* Direct activities to support the professional development of the HIV Prevention Market Research team and support recruitment and employee retention to achieve best in industry capabilities.
* Ensure compliance with company policies, standards and procedures in every interaction. Enforce compliance with guidelines and policies on marketing research interactions with physicians.
* Bachelor’s Degree required, Masters/PhD preferred
* Experience in Pharmaceutical, Biotech or related industry experience dependent on experience and education level.
* Foundation of experience in HIV or virology therapy areas and experience with provider-administered (e.g. buy-and-bill) products is desired.
* 10+ years of relevant experience in market research field
* Demonstrated successful leadership, management, and development of teams responsible for market research. Strong judge of talent with the ability to make tough talent decisions.
* Thorough understanding of pharmaceutical sales and marketing practices, product lifecycle management and regulatory environment.
* Demonstrated ability to drive large cross-functional initiatives, as well as influence laterally and vertically.
* Ability to manage multiple priorities based on changing business needs, as well as ability to work in a team-based, fast-paced environment.
* Strong organizational, planning, communication and project management skills.
* Strong understanding of primary qualitative and quantitative market research techniques and their optimal uses to inform business decisions.
* Proven experience in storytelling and data visualization to communicate complicated analytics clearly for cross-functional stakeholders and senior management.
* Persuasive written and verbal communication skills, ability to lead, influence, resolve conflict and drive consensus among diverse cross functional stakeholders.
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