Corcept Therapeutics

Associate Director, Pipeline & Portfolio Market Planning

Corcept Therapeutics$215K — $253K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred (MBA, MSc, PhD, PharmD)
  • 8+ years of new product planning experience in oncology
  • Proven ability to lead strategic planning by integrating various perspectives
  • Strong market research and analytical skills
  • Experience in dynamic, matrixed environments influencing diverse stakeholders

Responsibilities

  • Lead strategy initiatives to define product vision and drive business impact
  • Provide integrated perspectives in clinical strategy and new product planning
  • Design and refine competitive intelligence and market analysis frameworks
  • Support cross-functional teams to ensure strategic continuity
  • Develop long-range revenue forecasts to support program planning

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment
  • Opportunity to make a significant impact in oncology
  • Potential for involvement in global expansion initiatives
  • Commitment to developing novel treatments for unmet medical needs
Full Job Description
The Associate Director, Pipeline and Portfolio Market Planning is accountable for developing product strategies across Corcept's oncology portfolio. This individual will guide indication selection and sequencing, competitive landscape assessments, target product profiles (TPPs), product proposition, and long-range financial forecasting to inform program-level decision-making.

Responsibilities:
  • Lead program-level strategy initiatives to define product vision, optimize lifecycle value, and drive business impact
  • Provide integrated physician, patient, and payer perspective in clinical strategy and new product planning initiatives
  • Own the design, implementation, and continuous refinement of competitive intelligence and market analysis frameworks that proactively inform program, investment, and governance decisions
  • Support cross-functional teams, including Commercial, Medical, Development, and Research, to ensure alignment and strategic continuity across the product lifecycle
  • Develop, maintain, and communicate long-range revenue forecasts and valuation models to support program planning and resource allocation
  • Synthesize market research, competitive intelligence, and secondary data sources into clear, actionable insights to guide cross-functional and leadership decision-making
  • Lead asset assessments and contribute to due diligence for potential business development opportunities
  • Manage ad hoc strategic projects, including global expansion initiatives in partnership with Emerging Markets team
  • Model Corcept's key principles: collaborating effectively, embracing possibilities, following the data, and leading by doing

Preferred Skills, Qualifications and Technical Proficiencies:
  • Proven ability to lead and influence strategic planning efforts integrating scientific, clinical, commercial, and regulatory perspectives
  • Deep understanding of the drug development process, spanning early through late-stage programs, with experience translating clinical insights into commercial strategy
  • Strong market research and analytical acumen with the ability to translate data into compelling executive-ready strategic recommendations
  • Experience operating effectively in a dynamic, matrixed environment, influencing stakeholders across R&D, Commercial, Medical, Finance, and Executive functions
  • Proven ability to rapidly synthesize information from multiple internal and external sources
  • Occasional travel required for corporate and industry events

Preferred Education and Experience:
  • Bachelor's degree required. Advanced degree preferred (MBA, MSc, PhD, PharmD)
  • 8+ years of experience in new product planning, with relevant roles in market planning, business development, corporate strategy, investment banking and/or healthcare strategy consulting considered
  • Industry experience within oncology required
  • Prior experience working as part of or leading cross-functional drug development teams preferred

The pay range that the Company reasonably expects to pay for this headquarters-based position is $215,300 - $253,200; the pay ultimately offered may vary based on legitimate considerations, including geographic location, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and education.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

For information on how Corcept collects, uses, discloses, protects, and otherwise processes personal information and an explanation of the rights and choices available to you with respect to your personal information, please refer to our Privacy Notice link.

Corcept appreciates the commitment and hard work of all our team members as we strive to discover and develop novel treatments for patients with serious unmet medical needs.

Please visit our website at: https://www.corcept.com/

Corcept will not conduct interviews via text message or messaging platforms and will not ask you to download anything as part of your interview. Though we use third-party tools to help with advertising our jobs, please be vigilant in checking that the communication is in fact coming from Corcept.

About Corcept Therapeutics

Corcept Therapeutics is a commercial-stage pharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery and development of drugs for the treatment of severe metabolic, oncologic and psychiatric disorders. The company's lead product, Korlym, is a cortisol receptor blocker that modulates the effects of cortisol, a hormone produced by the adrenal gland. Korlym is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of patients with Cushing's syndrome who have type 2 diabetes or glucose intolerance. The company is also developing other cortisol modulators, including CORT125134, which is in Phase II clinical trials for the treatment of patients with Cushing's syndrome and solid-tumor cancers. Corcept Therapeutics was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.
Learn more about Corcept Therapeutics
Size
238 employees
Market Cap
$2.1 billion
Industry
Net Income
$106 million
Founded
1998
5 Year Trend
+35.1%
Revenue
$353.8 million
NASDAQ

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