Director US Pain Performance Tracking

Job Description

General Summary:

Vertex is seeking to hire a Director US Acute Pain Performance Tracking & Analysis (Dir. Pain Perf.) to join the North America Forecasting, Analytics and Market Research team in the Commercial organization. The Dir. Pain Perf. will provide comprehensive support for quantitative and qualitative tracking and reporting of commercial KPI (key performance indicators), with primary focus on US Acute Pain. This individual will not only lead the development, generation, maintenance, and regular synthesis and presentation of all dashboards and KPI-related information, but also perform relevant analytics and deliver insights to appropriate stakeholders.

The ideal candidate must be a skilled and experienced individual contributor, as well a thoughtful and collaborative leader who can competently communicate complicated concepts to a wide variety of stakeholders. This candidate must possess a high degree of attention to detail and accuracy in creating deliverables and must be self-directed in engaging with colleagues. Additionally, this candidate must be a thought leader who can effectively strategize, collaborate, and manage relationships with our many cross-functional partners.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead the commercial KPI tracking, reporting and analytics processes end-to-end, with primary focus on US Acute Pain
• Develop and leverage deep understanding of all available data sets, and work with partners to ingest, process, and analyze data for reporting and analytics
• Build, own, maintain, and update KPI tracking dashboards / frameworks; may include integrated work within Vertex systems, such as Power BI linked to Snowflake, or alternatively may entail preparation of custom PPT decks and other similar materials
• Leverage available data and reporting outputs to evaluate trends, and regularly synthesize and present performance tracking analytics (generally shown vs. forecast), to support updates to the commercial LE (latest estimate) revenue forecasts
• Generate and deliver actionable insights to key stakeholders during launch, and post-launch periods
• Work collaboratively with cross functional stakeholders including but not limited to US Marketing, Global Marketing, US Market Access, US Finance, Commercial Sales Operations, etc.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Experience building and maintaining KPI reporting dashboards within the pharma/biotech industry, using tools such as Power BI
• Proficiency with complex Excel modeling, and analyzing and developing insights from large data sets, leveraging relevant tools such as snowflake, SQL, python, SAS, VBA, etc.
• Proficiency working with wide array of data set, including but not limited to Xponent, DDD, MMIT, LAAD, patient-level transactional data, and broader claims data
• Strong analytical and business acumen: intellectual curiosity, motivation and ability to structure problems, diagnose issues and triangulate with multiple approaches while keeping sight of the "big picture"
• Experience working with senior leadership to support insights generation and communication, financial forecasting and analytics, and/or commercial launch planning
• Ability to quickly and thoughtfully adapt to new and evolving business and planning needs

Education and Experience:

• Master's degree in a quantitative discipline required (Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Finance, Science)
• 10+ years in biotech/pharmaceuticals in a quantitative role in Commercial / Finance / Corporate Strategy / BD, and/or 6 years in a relevant consulting role (management, strategic or economic consulting) post-MBA/PhD, with meaningful biotech/pharmaceuticals and quantitative decision support experience.

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