Director of Portfolio Strategy & Competitive Intelligence at Summit Therapeutics Sub, Inc.

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Director of Portfolio Strategy & Competitive Intelligence

The Director of Portfolio Strategy & Competitive Intelligence position reports to the Executive Director, Head of Market Planning and Strategy to support strategic planning activities by providing actionable recommendations based on assessments of markets and competitors, both existing and potential.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Provide comprehensive market and competitive intelligence insights, strategies, scenarios and impact based on in-depth research through presentations and reports to the Executive Director of Market Planning and Strategy and various internal management teams to allow effective strategic and tactical decision-making and implementation.
• Supply the market and competitive intelligence component of strategic planning, and proactively makes recommendations to Executive Director of Market Planning and Strategy concerning key intelligence items that require further consideration.
• Work with internal business stakeholders to enhance their use of strategic analysis, market insights, and competitor intelligence—ensuring a strong working knowledge of which factors, data points, and other inputs meaningfully impact commercial results in solid tumor oncology markets.
• Lead development of product revenue forecasting modelling.
• Develop market research plan to inform business strategy, including qualitative, quantitative research and competitive intelligence projects to drive high quality insights and recommendations to inform strategy.
• Communicate and align key internal stakeholders around market research objectives and outputs.
• Select appropriate research methodology to address business objectives.
• Lead market research projects, including vendor selection, design, execution and interpretation of market research results to deliver insights.
• Manage vendor partnerships including negotiating costs, on-boarding, ensuring accountability, and timely project execution.
• Participate in strategic planning including situation analysis, market access plans, brand plans, market assessments and present strategic plan to internal teams.
• Collect data on consumers, competitors and marketplace and consolidate information into actionable items, reports and presentations.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of data sources, evaluating their credibility and potential utility, and leverages them across the company where appropriate.
• Maintain an in-depth knowledge of designated markets and trends through synthesis of reports, market research, data manipulation and financial modeling and analysis.
• Compile and analyze market, epidemiology and statistical data using modern and traditional methods.
• Monitor customer trends and share the implications throughout the company.
• Provide analytical support to R&D, Commercial, Market Access, Corporate Strategy and BD on an adhoc basis to solve problems and inform strategy.
• Develop and maintain relationships with key internal stakeholders to identify emerging needs and business challenges.
• Collaborate with Commercial, Operations, Corporate Strategy, IT, and Legal to ensure that the needs of the business is addressed.
• All other duties as assigned.

Experience, Education and Specialized Knowledge and Skills:

• Advanced Degree (Ph.D., MBA, or applicable master’s degree) with at least 10+ years of pharmaceutical / biotech industry experience.
• Director (minimum of 10+ years) experience working with both qualitative and quantitative research in oncology/pharma market with emphasis on Non-small Cell Lung cancer and other Solid Tumors.
• Candidate should have extensive knowledge in the Solid Tumor Oncology field, Market Planning, Competitive intelligence, forecasting, and Lung cancer.
• Experienced with developing and executing primary and secondary market research.
• Experience in Global market research is preferred.
• Proven experience leading and managing end-to-end research: designing research plans, synthesizing findings/insights, presenting, etc.
• Experience with advanced spreadsheets, patient-based forecast modeling including dynamic patient models.
• Good communication and presentation skills.
• Advanced skill level with Powerpoint, Excel and similar data tools.
• Ability to travel.

This full-time position may require relocation to the Miami office. Employee must be able to travel to the Miami, FL and Menlo Park, CA offices on an ongoing basis.

The pay range for this role is $194,000 to $224,000 annually. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.