Associate Director, Commercial Analytics

The Associate Director, Commercial Analytics drives promotional effectiveness analytics for TRUTAKNA — measuring whether Vera’s promotional investment is working and shaping where it goes next. Reporting to the Senior Director, Commercial Forecasting and Advanced Analytics, the role also carries opportunities to flex into support for commercial forecasting as business needs and the individual’s interests align.

This is a hands-on, high-visibility individual contributor role in a lean commercial team. The person in this seat builds the models, forms a view on what they mean, and brings that thinking to commercial leadership. Partners include Business Operations, Marketing, Market Access, Sales, Patient Services, Launch Excellence, Finance, and Supply.

• Advanced degree (MS, MPH, PhD, or MBA) in a quantitative, scientific, or business discipline preferred; a bachelor’s degree in a quantitative or scientific field with commensurate depth of experience will also be considered.
• 5+ years of commercial analytics, business insights, or commercial data experience on biotech or pharmaceutical commercial teams.
• Demonstrated ownership of promotional effectiveness work, including promotional response modeling, program ROI, and channel or campaign measurement; exposure to marketing mix modeling or promotional sequence optimization a plus.
• Experience supporting patient-based demand forecasting, including funnel or patient flow models.
• Hands-on experience with real-world data assets, including anonymized patient-level data, claims, lab data, specialty pharmacy or HUB data, and syndicated prescription or shipment data.
• Experience working with internal business data sources, including CRM and field activity data, patient services data, and market access or channel data.
• Advanced Excel; proficiency with BI and visualization tools such as Tableau or Power BI; Python, SQL, R a plus.
• Practical, current proficiency with AI tools applied to biotechnology commercial work, with specific examples of where they changed the speed or quality of an output.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with a track record of presenting to and influencing executive audiences.
• Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities across a broad stakeholder set with limited direction.

• Depth in forecasting methodology, including scenario modeling, long-range forecasting, and analog-based assumption development.
• Experience commissioning primary market research and integrating it with secondary and internal data.