Director, New Product Strategy
$195,000–$275,000 year
On-siteWatertown, Massachusetts, United States
Job Summary
Own early commercial strategy for assigned programs by developing disease and market landscapes that cover patient journeys, treatment paradigms, and unmet needs. Partner with Clinical Development, Medical, Regulatory, Research, and Program Leadership to shape target product profiles and evidence-generation priorities. Lead indication prioritization and sequencing while weighing scientific rationale, epidemiology, competitive intensity, and market access. Build market models, revenue forecasts, and risk-adjusted assessments to inform portfolio planning and investment decisions. Design and run primary and secondary market research with physicians, payers, and patients to translate findings into decision-ready recommendations. Deliver concise news-flow updates and landscape syntheses to program teams and leadership, interpreting what changed and what should follow. Attend key medical and scientific meetings to capture competitive data and produce post-congress readouts. Serve as a trusted strategic partner to program teams and functional leaders, bringing an external market and competitor lens into development decisions. Contribute to Corporate Strategy priorities including portfolio strategy, long-range planning, and investor analyses.
Required Qualifications
- 6+ years of relevant experience in biopharma strategy, new product planning, commercial strategy, competitive intelligence, market research, or life-sciences consulting
- Demonstrated ability to rapidly understand complex biology, mechanisms of action, clinical trial design, endpoints, and therapeutic landscapes and connect them to strategic and commercial implications
- Fluency in primary and secondary market research and comfort managing external vendors and expert interviews
- Experience building or critically evaluating patient-based forecasts, epidemiology models, scenario analyses, and commercial opportunity assessments
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to create concise, executive-ready PowerPoint materials and communicate effectively with scientific and senior business audiences
- High level of proficiency with Excel and PowerPoint
- Strong comfort adopting AI-enabled research, synthesis, and knowledge-management tools and using them responsibly
- Highly analytical, intellectually curious, organized, and proactive, with strong judgment and the ability to manage multiple evolving priorities in a small, fast-moving organization
Desired Qualifications
- Advanced degree in a scientific or engineering discipline strongly preferred (e.g., PhD or MS in biology, immunology, pharmacology, biomedical engineering, bioengineering, chemical engineering, or a related field)
- Strong preference for experience at a boutique life-sciences strategy consultancy, with hands-on responsibility for new product planning, indication strategy, market opportunity assessment, competitive intelligence, forecasting, and/or portfolio strategy engagements
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