Senior Director, Global Disease Area Insights

The Opportunity

Reporting to the Executive Director, Global Disease Area Insights, the Senior Director, Global Disease Area Insights role requires strategic thinking and expertise to provide broad-level critical contributions to disease area strategy, life-cycle planning and product and portfolio decisions. The individual in this role will lead the global team responsible for integrated market research and competitive intelligence to support the development and commercialization of the RevMed portfolio for a given disease area.

Responsibilities

• Leads Market Research and Competitive Strategy team members to develop an integrated, continuously updated view of the external environment for a given disease area, inclusive of competitor pipelines, emerging science, clinical data, commercial activities, market developments, and stakeholder insights.
• Initiates and facilitates market research to deepen understanding of market opportunity, unmet needs, stakeholder behaviors, and gaps or barriers in the marketplace.
• Pressure-tests assumptions about the nature and importance of these gaps and evaluates proposed commercial strategies, solutions, and approaches.
• Leads systematic, ongoing tracking and synthesis of competitive information across medical conferences, earnings calls and investor events, scientific publications, clinical and regulatory updates, and commercial activities.
• Coordinates congress coverage and delivers timely alerts, integrated summaries, and implications tailored to stakeholder needs.
• Benchmarks competitor clinical data, messaging, positioning, commercial strategies and execution, business models, and capabilities.
• Anticipates potential competitive moves and assesses their implications for differentiation, disease area strategy, and commercial planning.
• Collaborates with key stakeholders to identify and prioritize intelligence and research needs, translate business questions into learning objectives, and generate insights.
• Communicates and aligns key internal stakeholders around market research and competitive intelligence objectives and outputs.
• Develops and presents actionable recommendations to key stakeholders and senior leadership.
• Synthesizes and communicates insights across geographies to inform global clinical development plans and commercial strategies.
• Collaborates closely with Global and Regional Insights and Analytics functions, including Data Analytics and Forecasting.
• Works closely with Global Commercial Development, regional commercial teams, Clinical Development, Portfolio Strategy, and Medical Affairs.
• Reinforces market research and competitive intelligence best practices, selecting data sources, vendors, and methodologies.
• Manages third parties and ensures research and intelligence activities follow applicable policies and ethical standards.
• Leads and develops a team of direct reports, building market research, competitive intelligence, and strategic synthesis capabilities.
• Travel domestically and internationally as needed, typically up to 25–30%.

Required Skills, Experience and Education

• Bachelor's degree required (MBA preferred) with 12+ years of progressive experience in a pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or strategic consulting role with 8+ years of experience in a strategic analytics role.
• Deep expertise supporting pipeline and portfolio decision making and leading executional strategy for pipeline analytics and insights.
• Extensive primary research and secondary analytical skills required.
• Experience conducting and strategically coordinating market research across geographies, including regions outside the U.S.
• Experience leading comprehensive competitive intelligence activities across scientific, clinical, corporate, and commercial sources.
• Track record of being a highly effective team player, and adaptive to meet the needs of a growing business.
• Strong problem solver with experience selecting fit-for-purpose research designs and analytical approaches.
• Demonstrated ability to influence executive management and cross functional business partners.
• Excellent organizational skills and an ability to prioritize effectively.
• Strong interpersonal skills including verbal and written communication.
• Entrepreneurial mindset, with a tolerance for ambiguity, and a passion for helping cancer patients.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with targeted Oncolytics.
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize complex information and influence decision-making at the executive level.
• Experience working with Global teams.