Manager, Data Analytics & Business Intelligence

Responsibilities

• Support the design, build-out, and ongoing management of Orca Bio's enterprise data and reporting infrastructure, establishing a single, trusted source of truth for organizational performance.
• Define the organization's key performance indicators (KPIs) and performance measurement frameworks in partnership with functional leaders, spanning commercial, supply, clinical, and other functions.
• Lead the end-to-end process for data collection, validation, analytics, and reporting, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant information across the organization.
• Develop and maintain dashboards and reporting tools spanning field activity, onboarding progress, incentive compensation performance, product ordering trends, and cross-functional KPIs.
• Identify key business trends and performance drivers and translate complex data into actionable insights for leadership.

Market Research

• Lead end-to-end execution of HCP, patient, and payer primary market research, including both qualitative and quantitative methodologies.
• Design study protocols, develop discussion guides and questionnaires, select and manage research vendors, oversee fielding, and synthesize findings.
• Develop research briefs and present findings to leadership and cross-functional partners with clear strategic recommendations.
• Build and maintain a centralized research repository to preserve institutional knowledge and enable insights reuse across functions.

Competitive Intelligence

• Build and maintain a systematic CI monitoring framework covering allogeneic cell therapy, CAR-Ts, and emerging competitors in hematologic malignancies.
• Track conference activity (ASH, ASCO, EHA, EBMT, TCT), clinical trial registries, FDA/EMA label and REMS changes, pricing and coverage signals, and competitor activity.
• Develop monthly CI briefings and ad-hoc competitive alerts; aggregate field-sourced intelligence and triangulate against secondary data.
• Identify and surface competitive risks and opportunities that may impact commercial strategy.

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Serve as the organization's data, analytics, and insights subject-matter expert and primary point of contact across Commercial, Supply, Clinical, Medical Affairs, Market Access, and Business Development.
• Support forecasting, scenario modeling, business planning cycles, and launch-readiness tracking with rigorous analytics and research-based input.
• Coordinate external vendors and research/data partners to ensure quality, consistency, and cost efficiency; drive standardization and vendor consolidation.
• Build trusted relationships with functional leaders and serve as a strategic thought partner on measurement, research design, and prioritization.
• Recommend and implement improvements to analytics workflows, reporting processes, and data visualization tools.