Our client is a clinical-stage biotechnology company. They have asked us to assist them in a search for a Head of Commercial Operations & Analytics.

  Major tasks and responsibilities include:

Provides commercial operations and analytics leadership that shapes the foundation of the business.
• Builds and operates commercial data management systems, including CDE, MDM, CRM, field reporting, field incentive compensation, promotional review, and business analytics.
• Works cross-functionally, considering the needs of the various commercialization, and operational teams in the U.S. and EU to select and deploy appropriate hardware, technology platforms and software/apps that maximize commercial effectiveness.
• Develops commercial dashboard, data analytics and reporting capabilities that provide marketplace insights for Sales, Marketing, Market Access, Finance, and other management.
• Owns and communicates the demand forecast to support the company’s different stakeholders, including Commercial, Manufacturing and Finance.
• Designs, executes, and analyzes market research in collaboration with Marketing. Develop and communicate competitive intelligence.
• Ensures commercial compliance operating procedures, and corresponding fulfillment of local, state and national regulations.

We seek candidates with the following qualifications:

• At Bachelor’s degree with minimum of eight years of biopharma commercial operations experience is required. An advanced degree in a relevant discipline is preferred.
• Must have a comprehensive understanding of, and experience building and integrating, the end-to-end data flows across Sales, Market Access, and Patient Support.
• Requires extensive technical ability and experience leading CDE/CRM systems, and implementing and managing tools like Salesforce, Veeva, Tableau and Qlik.
• Hands-on data analytics experience is required.
• Must have a strong understanding of U.S. federal data reporting requirements.
• Experience with administration of sales incentive compensation programs is required.
• Requires experience quantitatively and qualitatively analyzing sales, market access, patient support and marketing data.
• A strong understanding of a wide range of secondary data sources and technical data tracking systems is required.
• The ability to synthesize complex information and identify key insights is required.
• Must have excellent project management ability.
• A track record of effective collaboration with IT and commercial functions is required.
• Must have high attention to detail, diligence, and reliability.
• Requires the ability to communicate data via clear visuals.
• Must have superior modeling and analytical capabilities using multiple platforms.
• Vendor management experience is desired.
• Start-up experience is highly preferred.
• Product launch experience is required.
• Must have basic programming ability to perform simple data analytics without relying on an outside vendor.
• Must have experience leading competitive intelligence.
• Substantial experience designing and executing market research across stakeholder groups and methodologies is preferred.
• Finance experience is desired.
• Global experience is desired.
• Rare disease experience is ideal.
• Requires a flexible schedule with frequent calls across Israel, North America, and Europe time zones.
• Must be willing to travel up to 20%, including international.

If interested, please apply directly to this job posting. No calls please. Include your daytime phone number and we will contact you confidentially or reply to your email.

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