Associate Director, Market Research & Competitive Intelligence, Pipeline & Early Assets

About the role

You will recommend, design, and execute qualitative and quantitative primary market research to provide actionable information and insights that support Alkermes' early-stage pipeline. The role works closely with the New Product Planning (NPP) group and interfaces with clinical and commercial functions to inform pipeline-product development by understanding treatment-provider, consumer, and payer perceptions.

Responsibilities

• Work with NPP stakeholders to identify knowledge gaps that can be addressed with market research and competitive intelligence.
• Leverage in-house data and analyses to identify need for primary research, inform approaches, and ensure results complement existing data, competitive intelligence, and forecasts.
• Design and execute primary market research projects, including defining business question(s), developing methodologies, managing vendors, analyzing study data, and communicating results, interpretations, and recommendations to cross-functional stakeholders.
• Design and field primary competitive-intelligence investigations to inform pipeline development decisions; collaborate with the Alkermes CI team as needed.
• Integrate data sources from a wide variety of studies, analyze data, and communicate insights and recommendations.
• Quickly become an expert in assigned market(s), related commercial products, and any potential new markets.
• Build a strong strategic partnership with NPP and serve as a key thought partner to maximize insight leverage and business impact.

Qualifications

Basic qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, science, or quantitative disciplines such as mathematics or statistics.
• Minimum of 8 years in the pharmaceutical industry with at least 5 years in market research or consulting.
• Demonstrated success leading market research to support advancement of early-stage pipeline products.
• Experience gathering insights and assessing business opportunities across global markets.

Skills

• Strong understanding of market research tools and techniques.
• Experience with HCP, patient, and payer market research.
• Strong foundation in science and drug development as appropriate to support pipeline products.
• Understanding of pharmaceutical marketing and market access.
• Knowledge of pharmaceutical sales/marketing databases and secondary data sources.
• Strong analytical, organization, and planning skills.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate study results and recommendations to diverse audiences.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office applications including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

Preferred qualifications

• Ability to proactively work with commercial stakeholders, take full ownership of market research projects, and meticulously manage market research vendors.
• Ability to coordinate and influence the efforts of cross-functional teams.
• Ability to make frank, well-supported recommendations to internal stakeholders.
• Ability to see the big picture from disparate information and present complex data in a clear and concise manner.
• Ability to synthesize data from multiple sources to address complex business questions.
• Ability to work on multiple simultaneous projects with tight, changing deadlines.

Schedule

Hybrid working environment requiring work onsite at the Waltham, MA office at least 3 days per week (60% in-office, 40% from home). This role is not eligible for fully remote work.

Pay

Annual base salary range: $161,000 to $186,000. Eligible for an annual performance pay bonus.

Benefits

Alkermes offers a competitive benefits package. Additional details can be found on the Alkermes careers website.

About Us

Alkermes applies its decades of deep neuroscience expertise to develop medicines designed to help people living with complex and difficult-to-treat psychiatric and neurological disorders. A global biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Ireland with U.S. locations in Massachusetts and Ohio, Alkermes has a portfolio of proprietary commercial products for the treatment of alcohol dependence, opioid dependence, schizophrenia, bipolar I disorder, and narcolepsy, and a pipeline of clinical and preclinical candidates in development for various psychiatric and neurological disorders.

Alkermes has been recognized as an employer of choice by many national organizations, including certification as a Great Place to Work in the U.S. (2024 and 2025), one of Massachusetts’ Top Places to Work by the Boston Globe, a Best Place to Work in Greater Cincinnati by the Cincinnati Business Courier, and a Best Place to Work in BioPharma by Fortune Magazine.