AD, Commercial Analytics (Immunology – RA/Gout)

Company Description

Statistics show that women and underrepresented groups tend to apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Sobi encourages you to change that statistic and apply. Rarely do candidates meet 100% of the qualifications. We look forward to your application!

At Sobi, each person brings their unique talents to work as a team and make a difference. We are dedicated to developing and delivering innovative therapies to improve the lives of people who live with a rare disease. Our edge comes from our team of people and our commitment to patients.

Our mission and culture at Sobi North America get us excited to come to work every day, but here are a few more reasons to join our team:

• Competitive compensation for your work
• Generous time off policy
• Summer Fridays
• Opportunity to broaden your horizons by attending popular conferences
• Emphasis on work/life balance
• Collaborative and team-oriented environment
• Making a positive impact to help ultra-rare disease patients who are in need of life saving treatments

Job Description

The Associate Director, Immunology Insights (RA/Gout) will help commercial teams understand the factors that drive anakinra and uricase use.  They will develop comprehensive performance narratives and present them to leadership.  They will work closely with cross functional partners to integrate perspectives and develop tactics. They will inform data strategy in collaboration with our Commercial Data Management team.  They will perform ad-hoc analyses against raw data and build dashboards for field and sales executives.  They will maintain relationships across sales, marketing, finance, and market access pulling insights from these critical functions into their overall narrative.  They will support the launch of a new gout asset and manage a mature Rheumatoid Arthritis asset. 

The role will report to the Associate Director, Commercial Intelligence and Analytics as part of the Customer Experience Insights & Operations (CxI&O) team for North America. The CxI&O team is focused on ensuring we elevate the experience for our customers internally and externally through integration across sales, marketing, and market access. The Commercial Intelligence and Analytics team is responsible for performance reporting, competitive intelligence, and forecasting across all brands/therapeutic areas in North America.

**Please note this is a hybrid remote position with occasional travel.  The ideal candidate will live in the Boston area, coming into the Waltham office 1-2 days per week and working remotely otherwise. 

Key Responsibilities

• Demonstrated ability to think creatively and strategically, to build alliances cross-functionally, and the flexibility to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
• Communicate complex ideas clearly and concisely to all levels of the organization
• Design and improve business visualization dashboards to facilitate a single view of performance
• Lead thinking for data needs, KPI definition, and data mart requirements
• Produce regular reports, presentations, and executive summaries to communicate findings, recommendations, and implications for the organization
• Construct and present cohesive performance narratives to leadership, clearly articulating trends in the context of potential root causes and counter-measures  
• Proactively reach out to cross functional colleagues for their observations and ideas to generate meaningful insights that incorporate sales, marketing, competitive intelligence, primary research, and market access factors 
• Provide forward thinking leadership and vision to the insights function … in addition to understanding what has happened in the past, consider what questions we should be asking to shape the future and what we as an insights function can do to foster those changes.
• Incorporate Competitive Intelligence dynamics in Situational Assessment readouts and proactively alert commercial leadership to changes and their implications 
• Partner with franchise teams to guide market research efforts, including providing results associated with strategic implications to the key internal stakeholders.  Incorporate findings into performance narratives.
• Conduct in-depth analyses for key issues that may impact the key Franchise strategies and decisions, such as defining patient segmentation, patient journey, demand studies, brand positioning and messaging, etc.
• Own brand forecasting models with an understanding of rationale behind current assumptions for both short term and long-term forecasts
• Conduct ad-hoc analytics using raw and transformed data sets

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required
• 7+ years of experience in the pharma/biotech industry in a commercial or consulting role
• 3+ years working with pharmaceutical data sets including claims, DDD, and 867/852 data
• Mature SQL and data analytics skills, with comfort accessing data across a variety of platforms
• Experience with Tableau or similar BI tool
• Analytical reasoning abilities, intellectual curiosity, strong business acumen, and creativity in problem solving
• Aptitude and interest in CI, primary research, and forecasting in the pharmaceutical space
• Excellent strategy, planning and execution skills with proven ability to prioritize work to drive results
• Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional colleagues and leadership teams to drive results in a matrixed management operating environment
• Highly developed commercial and business acumen; an ability to recognize growth and profitability opportunities and capitalize on them
• Ability to understand, analyze and assimilate complex issues, draw correct conclusions and formulate clear strategy and policies
• Ability to interact effectively with, and present verbally and in writing to, all levels of the organization

The base salary pay range for this role is $150,000-$190,000 annually. Actual pay for this position will take into account factors such as experience and location. In addition to a base salary, this position is also eligible for a competitive 401k match, short and long-term incentives, medical, dental, vision, STD/LTD and life insurance benefits, in addition to other health and wellness programs and offerings. 

Additional Information

All Sobi employees need to demonstrate behaviors in line with Sobi's core values: Care, Ambition, Urgency, Ownership and Partnership. Are you ready to be on the Sobi team? Come join a culture that empowers every person to be the person that makes a difference for rare disease.

Why Join Us?

We are a global company with over 1,700 employees in more than 30 countries and are committed to the societies where we operate. With a deeply skilled management team directing our day-to-day wins, and a Board with a stellar track record, we’re ready to take on the world’s diseases, ailments and adversity. Our people believe they have the power to make a positive impact in others’ lives because that’s exactly what we do here. If you’re seeking a career that taps into your talents in a way that makes the world a better, healthier place, we just may have a job for you.

We know our employees are our most valuable asset, and our culture conveys that. We offer a competitive benefits package, to support the health and happiness of our staff.

Sobi Culture

At Sobi, we refuse to accept the status quo. This is because we have witnessed first-hand the challenges facing those affected by rare diseases, and have used this knowledge to shape our business to find new ways of helping them.

As a specialized biopharmaceutical company, we are dedicated to rare diseases. And we see this focus as a strength. By effectively turning our research into ground-breaking treatments, we help make medicine more accessible and open up more possibilities for patients and more opportunities for those caring for them. This has been our approach since day one, but we know we can’t change the world of rare diseases on our own. Accomplishing this requires strong partnerships with patients, partners and stakeholders across the entire value chain. Together, we define how our business can create solutions that serve the needs of those affected by rare diseases while facilitating sustainable growth.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

Sobi is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. All employment decisions at Sobi are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veterans and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status or protected groups by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.

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COVID-19 Policy

For the safety of our employees and all individuals with whom we interact professionally, Sobi North America requires all new hires in the U.S. to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 with proof of vaccination status. We will consider requests for reasonable medical or religious accommodations, as well as any state-specific exemptions, as required by applicable law.