Senior Director, Competitive Intelligence & Market Research

Why Sarepta? Why Now?

The promise of genetic medicine has arrived, and Sarepta is at the forefront. We hold a leadership position in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (Duchenne) and are building a robust portfolio of programs across muscle, central nervous system, and cardiac diseases. In 2023, we launched our fourth therapy and the first ever gene therapy to treat Duchenne.

We're looking for people who see unlimited potential in themselves and who are motivated by an unwavering commitment to patients.

What Sarepta Offers

At Sarepta, we care deeply about all the people in our community and believe in the importance of supporting them in all aspects of their lives. We aspire to maintain a culture that acknowledges people bring their whole selves to work, and we will strive to help everyone in our community integrate their work and personal lives while maintaining productivity. We are committed to offering a range of benefits and work-life resources designed to support people in the following areas:

• Physical and Emotional Wellness
• Financial Wellness
• Support for Caregivers

Job Summary

• Job Title: Sr. Director, Competitive Intelligence & Market Research
• Department: Commercial Operations
• Reports to: Mike Shellman
• Location: Cambridge, MA/ Remote
• Why Sarepta? Why Now?

Sarepta is on an urgent mission: engineer precision genetic medicine for rare diseases that devastate lives and cut futures short. We hold a leadership position in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and are building a robust portfolio of programs across muscle, central nervous system, and cardiac diseases. Our next-generation siRNA platform is focused on chronically administered therapies for neurodegenerative and pulmonary diseases.

What Sarepta Offers

• Physical and Emotional Wellness
• Financial Wellness
• Support for Caregivers

Benefits

For a full list of our comprehensive benefits, see our website:

The Position

The Senior Director, Competitive Intelligence & Market Research role is responsible for ensuring actionable recommendations and solutions that support the commercial success of Sarepta's current portfolio of DMD products and, in time, our siRNA pipeline.

The role involves maintaining timelines, industry knowledge, market alerts, conference coverage, primary market research, and leadership briefings on competitive events as they occur. It will be critical for the individual in this role to build upon our current competitive intelligence capabilities and expand them to address the needs of the company in increasingly competitive markets.

This position partners with brand teams to ensure effective and impactful leverage of market research, competitive intelligence, and analytics initiatives. This position also partners with several functions throughout the organization to ensure consistency and awareness, including Medical Affairs, Corporate Strategy, New Product Strategy & Commercialization and Business Performance & Forecasting.

Primary Responsibilities Include

• Shape the strategy of the Gene Therapy and RNA business by developing a robust, cross-functional insights generation program, in collaboration with internal partners.
• Develop, execute and disseminate primary and secondary market research supporting commercial brand planning, demand forecasting, and insights generation.
• Utilize multiple and creative sources of market research to form the groundwork for strategy to better understand and anticipate customer needs.
• Develop strong cross-functional relationships with other team members (marketing, sales, analytics, market access, medical affairs, business performance, forecasting, patient services).
• Lead the Competitive Intelligence function for the Customer organization - synthesizing sources, information, and points of view into an aligned, clear repository.
• Manage relationships with external market research, competitive intelligence, and analytics suppliers.
• Manage the collection and dissemination of competitive intelligence across multiple platforms partnering with external suppliers and internal stakeholders.
• Develop new capabilities for the CI function building off the company's current capabilities
• Ensures Sarepta's adherence and compliance with all appropriate industry and company standards as it relates to Competitive Intelligence.
• Leads ongoing forum for competitive intelligence sharing across the organization.
• Maintains process of alerting key stakeholders to market events and developments.
• Manage brand-level Insights budget and project plan.

Other related duties as required.

Desired Education and Skills

• Bachelor's Degree required, Master's Degree strongly preferred.
• 15+ years' experience in some combination of the following; Brand marketing/strategy, Market research, Business analytics, Competitive intelligence with at least 5+ years of experience in the biopharmaceuticals industry. Rare Disease market experience is a plus.
• Strong project management experience with the ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Excellent communication and analytical skills.

Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Pay and benefits

Sarepta Therapeutics offers a competitive compensation and benefit package.

What Now?

We're always looking for solution-oriented, critical thinkers.

So, if you're comfortable with ambiguity and candor, relish challenging yourself, and place kindness and integrity at the forefront of how you approach your peers and work, then we encourage you to apply.

#LI-Hybrid

This position is hybrid, you will be expected to work on site at one of Sarepta's facilities in the United States and/or attend Company-sponsored in-person events from time to time.

The targeted salary range for this position is $222,400 - $278,000 per year. Sarepta is making a good faith effort to be transparent and accurate around our hiring ranges. The salary offer is commensurate with Sarepta's compensation philosophy and considers factors including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, external market conditions, criticality of role, and internal equity.