Executive Director, Commercial Insights & Advanced Analytics

About the Role:

Provides strategic leadership for Neurocrine's Commercial Insights and Analytics function, enabling enterprise decision-making through advanced analytics, AI-enabled insights, commercial forecasting, and competitive intelligence. Accountable for developing the long-term strategy for commercial forecasting and analytics, modernizing commercial decision capabilities, and ensuring the organization leverages data to optimize portfolio, brand, and customer decisions. Serves as a strategic partner across Marketing, Field Sales, Market Access, Medical Affairs, Finance, IT, and New Product Commercialization to shape commercial strategy, guide investment decisions, support portfolio and financial planning through robust forecasting, and build scalable analytical capabilities supporting current and future product launches.

Leads a high-performing organization and establishes the vision, operating model, governance, and talent strategy for Commercial Insights, Analytics, and Forecasting while fostering an innovative, insight-driven culture that accelerates business performance.

• Establishes and executes the long-term vision, strategy, and operating model for the Commercial Insights and Analytics function, ensuring alignment with enterprise, commercial, and brand strategies while advancing the organization's AI-enabled analytics capabilities

• Leads and develops a high-performing organization responsible for commercial forecasting, market research, competitive intelligence, performance analytics, advanced analytics, commercial measurement, and AI-enabled decision intelligence, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, continuous learning, and leadership development

• Partners with Commercial and cross-functional leadership to identify business opportunities, anticipate evolving analytical needs, and deliver actionable insights and forecasts that shape commercial strategy, optimize portfolio and investment decisions, and drive successful commercialization

• Champions evidence-based decision making by delivering clear, objective, and actionable recommendations that influence commercial strategy, portfolio prioritization, commercialization planning, resource allocation, investment decisions, and go-to-market execution

• Provides strategic oversight of commercial forecasting activities, ensuring forecasts are transparent, assumption-driven, analytically sound, and reflective of evolving market dynamics, competitive activity, customer behavior, and business strategy to support executive decision making and long-range planning

• Leads the design, implementation, and continuous evolution of enterprise commercial measurement and optimization capabilities, including Marketing Mix Modeling (MMx), Key Driver Analysis (KDA), scenario planning, causal inference, experimentation, predictive analytics, and AI-enabled decision support and other advanced analytical methodologies

• Drives marketing and commercial investment optimization by translating marketing investments into measurable business impact through advanced measurement, performance evaluation, budget optimization, and channel effectiveness analyses

• Modernizes the organization's analytics ecosystem by advancing scalable AI-enabled platforms, automated insights, self-service analytics, standardized data products, and decision intelligence capabilities that improve the speed, quality, and consistency of business decisions

• Partners closely with IT, Data Engineering, and Data Management to establish scalable data, technology, automation, and AI capabilities that enable efficient, repeatable, and enterprise-ready analytical solutions

• Establishes and maintain enterprise standards for forecasting, analytics methodologies, key performance indicators, data quality, governance, visualization, and executive storytelling to ensure analytical rigor, consistency, transparency, and actionability across the organization

• Builds organizational capability by developing future leaders, strengthening talent pipelines, and fostering a high-performing, inclusive culture that enables innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement

• Other duties as assigned

• BS/BA degree in business, science or quantitative disciplines such as mathematics or statistics AND 16+ years of pharmaceutical/biotech Commercial experience, in roles of increasing accountability. OR

• Master's degree in similar disciplines or MBA preferred AND 14+ years of…