Head of Commercial Analytics & Insights

Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities

• Drive commercial decision-making, performance management, and business planning across argenx US Commercialization by leveraging data management, AI enablement, and self-serve analytics capabilities as critical enablers.
• Inspire, coach, manage and develop employees to achieve and grow as individuals and a cohesive team.
• Effectively manage external vendor relationships to ensure high-quality, actionable deliverables that support US Commercialization priorities.
• Establish an innovative culture that advances objective, data-driven decision-making by embedding trusted data, scalable analytics, AI-enabled methods, and self-serve insight tools into commercial business routines.
• Deliver integrated commercial, customer, patient, product, and performance insights that are actionable for teams and support achievement of Commercial goals.
• Translate US Commercialization business needs into high-value analytics, reporting, and AI use cases that support existing and future assets.
• Analyze, synthesize, and interpret data across sources to generate timely, meaningful reports, dashboards, and executive-ready recommendations for brand and leadership teams.
• Support senior management readiness for key investor calls and meetings, including earnings calls, JPM, and other external engagements, by providing timely data facts, insights, and executive-ready briefing materials.
• Serve as a senior commercial analytics partner to business leaders, helping teams interpret data, apply AI-enabled insights, and make faster, more informed decisions across provider, patient, payor, and performance domains.
• Ensure US Commercial teams can access, understand, and confidently use trusted data, analytics, and AI-enabled insights within brand, launch, performance, and pipeline planning processes.
• Accelerate AI usage across US Commercialization by identifying decision points where AI-enabled analytics can improve planning, execution, and performance management, and by championing adoption of scalable solutions.
• Support assessment of Commercial strategies and tactics through performance measurement, ROI analytics, predictive insights, and recommendations that optimize the use of existing and future resources.
• Partner with Finance to manage the department budget including vendor agreements and contracts.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Highly skilled in influencing cross-functional teams, including interfacing with key internal and external stakeholders and with scientific and commercial teams.
• Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills.
• Adaptive and motivated to build and lead while "rolling up their sleeves" to get it done.
• Solid business, planning and budget management acumen.
• Demonstrated experience managing commercial vendors and service providers to deliver actionable analytics, insights, and business support.
• Ability to motivate and lead teams.
• Record of attracting and developing strong talent both internally and externally.
• Proven ability to grow and develop others.
• Ability to translate US Commercialization priorities into practical data, AI, and self-serve analytics requirements and adoption plans.
• Good understanding of regulatory and legal requirements to pharmaceutical commercial operations.

Education and Qualifications

• BA or BS required, MBA preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in commercial functions within the biopharmaceutical industry with 5-7 years in commercial analytics, business intelligence, performance analytics, forecasting, or AI-enabled decision support.
• Comprehensive understanding of commercial data sources, reporting, segmentation, forecasting, performance analytics, advanced analytics methodologies, and the application of AI to improve business decision-making.
• Strong analytical skills with the capability to effectively define business issues and recommendations.
• Start-up and Launch experience a plus.
• Familiarity with leading pharma industry commercial vendors.