Associate Director, Business Insights & Analytics

Associate Director, Business Insights & Analytics

Location: Cambridge, MA

Requisition Number: 507

How will your role help us transform hope into reality?

The Associate Director, Business Insights & Analytics will be the eyes and ears of Blueprint Medicines' commercial organization. In this role, you will develop a comprehensive understanding of our in-line therapeutic areas, their competitive landscapes, and our position therein. You will understand our products, how they are perceived, and how they are used in exquisite detail. You will develop a rich understanding of our patients and their journeys. You will synthesize disparate sources of information (qualitative, quantitative, analytics) into a unified narrative to generate actionable hypotheses. You will become a trusted source of truth and will improve upon the market insights and the analytic sophistication of the organization more broadly. In this opportunity you will report to the Director, Forecasting & Advanced Analytics.

What will you do?

• In conjunction with key collaborators (e.g., Marketing, Commercial Operations) find opportunities to use data to bring to light market opportunities, define and implement analytics approaches to address key challenges, and support customer-facing initiatives such as non-personal promotion and multi-channel marketing
• Become a subject matter expert in developing & utilizing key commercial datasets (e.g., distribution data, HCP engagement data, healthcare claims data)
• Define, track, and communicate Key Performance Indicators. Deliver sales and marketing tracking tools to provide actionable insights to key partners. 
• Lead / contribute to forecasting and analytics activities as well as market research and competitive intelligence to bring key data-driven business insights to leaders within the commercial organization in a proactive manner
• Collaborate with commercial and finance leadership to define and quantify the impact of market opportunities and threats across the portfolio
• Support the commercial operations function with insights and data to support territory alignment, physician segmentation, and other key decisions
• Develop processes, manage vendors, and generate results to effectively assess business performance and potential, and inform key stakeholder engagement
• Perform ad hoc analyses to address pressing business questions
• Participate in broader commercial team initiatives based on business need and development interest 
• Ensure reporting of accurate information. Manage and adhere to all Blueprint Medicines policies, ensuring compliance with corporate rules and governmental regulations

What minimum qualifications do we require? 

• BA / BS degree required; an advanced degree in a scientific, quantitative, or technical field (e.g., PhD., MS, MBA, MPH) is preferred
• At least 5 years of consulting and/or biopharmaceutical experience

What additional qualifications will make you a stronger candidate? 

• Sophisticated user of Microsoft Excel
• Experience in rare disease (preferred) or oncology / allergy (also highly valued)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and attention to detail
• Ability to quickly synthesize information and communicate it concisely & effectively 
• Demonstrated track record showing high business impact
• Consulting experience (life sciences focus or generalist)
• Prior experience in a business insights and analytics role, or similar 
• Experience with tableau, SQL, python and other data analytics tools 
• Experience analyzing large healthcare datasets (e.g., healthcare claims, distribution & sales data)
• Experience developing patient, volume & revenue forecasts for the pharmaceutical industry
• Experience developing and/or leading market research projects
• Commitment to our Core Values: Patients First, Thoughtfulness, Urgency, Trust, Optimism

Why Blueprint?

At Blueprint Medicines, we achieve impactful results because of our global crew of compassionate innovators – the Blue Crew. Through authentic relationships and our collective entrepreneurial spirit and action, we are each empowered to take ownership and execute with strategic prioritization. We put trust in our people to break through norms and conventions using their individual strengths and insights, which drives our success.

This is the place where the extraordinary becomes reality, and you could be part of it. Patients are waiting. Are you ready to make the leap?

COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement

As a biotechnology organization, it is our responsibility to do everything we can to safeguard the health and safety of our workforce, our communities, and the patients we serve.  That is why, prior to their start date, new hires must provide confirmation that they are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, or receive approval by Blueprint for an exemption for health reasons contraindicating the vaccines or sincerely held religious beliefs.  Accommodation requests for either of these reasons should be made to TotalRewards@blueprintmedicines.com.

Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Affirmative Action

At Blueprint Medicines, we foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion.  A proud Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer, we consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law. We are also an E-Verify Employer. We will make reasonable accommodations, absent undue hardship, for qualified individuals with known disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability in need of an accommodation with the application or recruiting process, please reach out to TotalRewards@blueprintmedicines.com. 

For more information, please see our EEO-AA Policy Statement, the EEO Know Your Rights Poster, as well as our Pay Transparency Statement. 

Blueprint Medicines is a global precision therapy company that invents life-changing therapies for people with cancer and blood disorders. Applying an approach that is both precise and agile, we create medicines that selectively target genetic drivers, with the goal of staying one step ahead across stages of disease. Since 2011, we have leveraged our research platform, including expertise in molecular targeting and world-class drug design capabilities, to rapidly and reproducibly translate science into a broad pipeline of precision therapies. Today, we are delivering approved medicines directly to patients in the United States and Europe, and we are globally advancing multiple programs for systemic mastocytosis, lung cancer and other genomically defined cancers, and cancer immunotherapy. For more information, visit www.BlueprintMedicines.com and follow us on Twitter (@BlueprintMeds) and LinkedIn.