Remote Position
Manager, Competitive Intelligence
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
About the position The Manager, Competitive Intelligence will be part of a growing innovative team responsible for delivering actionable competitive insights to support strategic decision-making for both inline products and a late-stage pipeline asset. This person will be responsible for gathering, analyzing, and communicating timely intelligence on competitors, industry trends, and market dynamics. They will partner closely with cross-functional teams, including Commercial, Medical, and R&D to anticipate market shifts, assess competitor actions, reduce decision risk, and inform portfolio and product strategy.
Responsibilities
- Competitive Monitoring & Research Track key competitors and industry developments through secondary research using syndicated databases, publications, conference coverage, and public filings.
- Develop and maintain competitive trackers, timelines, and profiles to support commercial and R&D teams.
- Monitor clinical trial activity, regulatory filings, and market events that may impact company strategy.
- Maintain CI dashboards and work with teams to develop additional dashboards
- Support CI deliverables such as competitor landscape assessments, market overviews, SWOT analyses, and conference debriefs.
- Partner with senior CI team members to analyze data and translate findings into concise insights for internal stakeholders.
- Assist in developing executive summaries and slide decks for cross-functional reviews.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders including Commercial, Medical, and R&D to address intelligence needs.
- Support ad hoc CI requests and special projects across therapeutic areas or product life stages.
- Contribute to preparation and execution of CI initiatives such as congress surveillance, war games, scenario analysis planning, and strategic workshops.
- Work with vendors and consultants to coordinate secondary and primary CI projects.
- Maintain knowledge of CI tools and databases relevant to the pharmaceutical industry and ensure effective utilization.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business, life sciences, public health, business, or a related field.
- Minimum of 5 years in pharmaceutical or healthcare industry with at least 2 years in a CI, strategic insights, or related function.
- Proven success conducting CI to support advancement of early-stage pipeline and inline products.
- Experience working in cross-functional teams and supporting commercial or clinical functions is a plus.
- Experience gathering insights and assessing business opportunities.
- Proficiency with secondary research tools
- An understanding of the pharmaceutical market and clinical development and regulatory milestones.
- A basic understanding of CI frameworks and techniques
- Effective written and verbal communication skills; experience preparing presentation materials a plus.
- Ability to work independently while managing multiple tasks and deadlines.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office applications including Excel, Word and PowerPoint. Nice-to-haves
- Strong attention to detail, intellectually curious, and an ability to synthesize large amounts of data into concise outputs.
- Ability to present insights and intelligence in a clear and concise manner.
- Collaborative mindset and willingness to learn and grow within a CI function.
- Ability to travel 20%.
- Ability to work a weekly hybrid office schedule in our Waltham location.
Benefits
- In addition, this position is eligible for an annual performance pay bonus.
- Alkermes offers a competitive benefits package.
- Additional details can be found on our careers website: www.alkermes.com/careers#working-here Apply tot his job