US Insights and Strategy Partner

Do you want to be part of an inclusive team that works to develop innovative therapies for patients? Every day, we are driven to develop and deliver innovative and effective new medicines to patients and physicians. If you want to be part of this exciting work, you belong at Astellas!

Astellas Pharma Inc. is a pharmaceutical company conducting business in more than 70 countries around the world. We are committed to turning innovative science into medical solutions that bring value and hope to patients and their families. Keeping our focus on addressing unmet medical needs and conducting our business with ethics and integrity enables us to improve the health of people throughout the world.

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This position is based in Northbrook, Illinois. Hybrid work from certain states may be permitted in accordance with Astellas’ Responsible Flexibility Guidelines. Candidates interested in hybrid work are encouraged to apply.

The US Insights and Strategy Partner role will be responsible for developing and maintaining an accurate view of the Commercial Division market conditions for the assigned product(s) and therapeutic area(s). This individual will help lead the development and execution of primary and secondary market research, while providing input to forecasting, competitive intelligence and analytics plans (to be conducted by separate teams).

This individual will also be responsible for helping their regional business partners infuse insight and analytics into commercial decision‑making and brand strategy development. This position is also responsible for maintaining an accurate picture of assigned product performance along with the risks and opportunities.

This role will require close collaboration with Commercial Insights (CI) counterparts, when appropriate, to ensure global alignment and consistency.

• Delivery and execution of Insights plans that are aligned with global counterparts and address regional specific strategic objectives, tactical requirements, and decision‑making needs. Includes annual business planning activities and additional strategic exercises.
• Develop deep understanding of the market landscape which includes market potential, market trends, unmet medical and patient needs, market access challenges and competitors’ trend for each of the assigned products.
• Partner with marketing to identify business‑critical information needs and lead development of market research plans, execution of research activities, and communication of actionable insights for assigned product(s).
• Provide assumptions and inputs to inform regional analytics plans (executed by separate team) to drive market and response models, identification of data sources, and other secondary research.
• Coordinate across Commercial Division Insights & Strategy teams, Data Strategy, Advanced, Analytics & Reporting and Commercial Forecasting functions to ensure integrated and consistent communication of insights and implications, tied back to brand strategies and objectives.
• Synthesize marketing intelligence learnings to provide thought leadership and insight to inform business decisions and outcomes.
• Drive strong cross‑functional stakeholder communication to promote brand‑level knowledge sharing and integration of key learnings.
• Prioritize team resources and projects to effectively and efficiently deliver I&S support to commercial stakeholders and align to global CI roadmap.
• Develop requests for proposals, solicit competitive bids, award contracts to outside market research agencies; manage the activities of these partners and review their performance against proposal and budget.

• Minimum 6 years’ experience, primarily in the pharmaceutical/health care industry with broad experience in strategy development, market research, strategic forecasting or related fields.
• Experience in identifying, evaluating, and translating primary and secondary data sources and analysis to provide unbiased, objective, in‑depth understanding of the market, product performance, customers, and competitors and support global franchise strategy.
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