Summary of Position:The Director, reporting to the Senior Director, Market Insights, will be a member of the Business Operations and Analytics team, accountable for insight generation and competitive intelligence for a newly launched neuromuscular treatment with potential expansion into new indications. This role will serve as an organizational, strategic thought partner, enabling high-quality, data driven, evidence-based decision making. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role within a fast-growing organization and an opportunity to contribute to the Global commercial foundation of Scholar Rock's first marketed product.
Position Responsibilities:- Leverage your prior in-market, launch, and pipeline experience to support commercial team in building and executing on a robust Global market insights and analytics plan
- Primary Market Research Execution: Lead robust insight generation initiatives compliantly to impact the creation of global commercial and brand strategies
- Competitive Intelligence: Manage external competitive intelligence (CI) vendors and oversee delivery of key CI outputs, including market landscapes, global congress monitoring, and clinical-stage intelligence, to identify competitive threats, opportunities, and emerging market dynamics
- Partner with key commercial stakeholders to plan priorities and execute deliverables for the annual brand planning process (e.g., Situational Assessment, Global Market Outlook, Market Map etc.)
- Stakeholder Engagement: Build key relationships with affiliate and cross-functional experts, define problems, design research, and synthesize insights to support commercial team decision making with clear crisp communication
- Utilize your communication and strategic skills to partner with cross-functional stakeholders to synthesize insights into frameworks from which the organization can align on strategies for launch optimization
Candidate Requirements:- 10+ years of experience in market insights and analytics, market research or competitive intelligence supporting the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries
- Project management expertise with the ability to effectively manage concurrent projects, meet critical deadlines, and deliver high-quality outcomes on time and within budget.
- Expertise in primary and secondary research methodologies, including study design, data collection, analysis, and interpretation.
- US and Global Market Research experience preferred
- Strong strategic thinking and analytical skills, with the ability to translate market research and competitive intelligence into actionable insights and recommendations.
- Proven ability to identify, select, and manage external research vendors while building strong, collaborative partnerships.
- Demonstrated ability to adapt to evolving organizational needs and effectively reprioritize work in a dynamic environment.
- Demonstrated commitment to organizational values, with a strong work ethic and high standards of professionalism and integrity.
- Experience generating market insights to inform successful product launches, with rare disease experience preferred.
- BS / BA in business, management or science required. Graduate degree (MBA) and / or equivalent experience and education in strategic leadership and business preferred.
- Role has flexibility to be remote or local depending on successful candidate preference. Travel required for onsite competitive intelligence congress coverage and ad-hoc corporate meetings.
