Please note that this position is based in San Diego, CA, San Francisco, CA, or Princeton, NJ. Acadia's hybrid model requires this role to work in our office three days per week on average.
The Manager, Commercial Analytics will be responsible for analyzing the commercial brand performance of Acadia’s Rare Disease franchise, for delivering actionable insights to inform business decisions and data-driven recommendations to optimize commercial strategy in support of both inline and pipeline products. This role partners closely with IT, Marketing, Sales, Market Access and Finance teams. The position requires strong analytical skills, business acumen, and experience in pharmaceutical data sources and tools.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Reports brand performance metrics and insights on an ongoing basis and ensures all reports are delivered on time and with accuracy
- Conducts robust analyses to understand drivers of performance and trends as well as to answer specific business questions from the brand team and senior leadership
- Proactively analyzes brand and market metrics to expand business understanding and identify areas of opportunity
- Partners with IT to build and maintain brand performance dashboards in PowerBI
- Implements processes to validate and ensure that data being reported is accurate
- Prepares slide decks and presents brand performance updates to cross-functional partners during monthly/quarterly meetings
- Supports slide creation for Board of Director meetings
- Partners with Patient Support Services to perform in-depth analyses on specific trends, ensure key metrics are captured in the data-warehouse and troubleshoot identified data anomalies
- Conducts analyses to help inform business strategy and optimal investment decisions using advanced analytical techniques (e.g. regression analysis, predictive analytics) and a broad range of data assets
- Evaluates measurement and effectiveness/ROI of promotional investments and campaigns
- Provides analytical support to multiple cross-functional partners including Sales, Marketing, Finance, Patient Support Services, IT and Market Access teams
- Other responsibilities as assigned
Education/Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field; engineering, math, science, economics, statistics, business administration or related field; Master’s degree preferred. Targeting 5 years’ experience with knowledge of pharmaceutical and/or healthcare industry with Commercial experience in-market products. An equivalent combination of relevant education and experience may be considered.
- Familiarity with pharmaceutical sales data strongly preferred.
Key Skills:
- Ability to program in SQL (or Snowflake) and PowerBI (or similar program) strongly preferred.
- Preferred experience with analysis of data from Patient Hub and Specialty Pharmacy as well Anonymized Patient Level data from Pharmaceutical Syndicated Datasets (e.g. IQVIA, Symphony, KOMODO, etc.)
- Proficiency in advanced Excel as well as Statistical Programing Languages (e.g Python, R or other).
- Potential for role to support AI and Machine Learning for Predictive Analysis (e.g. Patient Finding, Next Best Action, HCP Adoption).
- Solid understanding of relationship database management to connect multiple data sources into master databases/dashboards (e.g. AZURE, Microsoft SQL Server, Snowflake, etc.) .
- Ability to utilize and leverage one or more business intelligence toolsets (e,g, PowerBI, IQ2020, Tableu, etc.)
- Advanced computer skills, including MS Office business applications and tools, including PowerPoint.
- Ability to work independently with minimal work direction.
- Ability to effectively communicate in verbal, written, and presentation form.
- Must be able to travel on occasion.
Physical Requirements
This role involves regular standing, walking, sitting, and the use of hands for handling or operating equipment. The employee may also need to reach, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, and maintain visual, verbal, and auditory communication in a standard office environment and while working independently from remote locations. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds. This position requires the ability to travel independently overnight and/or work after hours as required by travel schedules or business needs.
In addition to a competitive base salary, this position is also eligible for discretionary bonus and equity awards based on factors such as individual and organizational performance. Actual amounts will vary depending on experience, performance, and location.
What we offer US-based Employees:
- Competitive base, bonus, new hire and ongoing equity packages
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Employer-paid life, disability, business travel and EAP coverage
- 401(k) Plan with a fully vested company match 1:1 up to 5%
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a 2-year purchase price lock-in
- 15+ vacation days
- 13 -15 paid holidays, including office closure between December 24th and January 1st
- 10 days of paid sick time
- Paid parental leave benefit
- Tuition assistance
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