Global Commercial Insights Manager, Obesity

Global Commercial Insights Manager, Obesity

Supports insights generation activities and builds market research capabilities within the obesity insights group.

• Provide deep market understanding to recommend concrete inputs using primary market research (qualitative and quantitative), strategic secondary analytics, and synthesis of internal knowledge.
• Solve ambiguous problems with a consulting-type mindset and integrate multiple sources to provide strategic partnership to support product strategy, brand building, and/or milestones for internal governance.
• Work on-site 3 days a week in Thousand Oaks, CA.

Integrate insights from a variety of sources (market research, competitive intelligence, secondary data) to address business needs.

• Plan, design, and conduct primary market research and translate findings into strategic and tactical recommendations to enable decision making.
• Turn unstructured business issues / requests into appropriate action plans and projects that result in high quality, important and concrete deliverables.
• Clearly communicate ideas and insights via written or verbal presentation in the form of compelling stories that deepen customer understanding.
• Set priorities, develop and manage multiple projects and timelines simultaneously.

Basic Qualifications

• Doctorate degree OR Masters degree and 2 years of commercial insights or consulting experience OR Bachelors degree and 4 years of commercial insights or consulting experience OR Associates degree and 8 years of commercial insights or consulting experience OR High school diploma / GED and 10 years of commercial insights or consulting experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to extract, analyze, treat, and consolidate data from different sources in clear and concise formats with rigor and high level of accuracy.
• Strong knowledge of drug development the pharmaceutical industry.
• Experience leading primary market research.
• Strategic thinking to support key business decisions.
• Collaborative team-based environment across different functional groups.
• Excellent presentation skills with ability to explain complex concepts and controversial findings clearly to a variety of audiences, including senior management.
• Skilled in prioritizing multiple responsibilities, priorities, tasks, and projects simultaneously.