Senior Manager, Brand Analytics & Insights, Rare Disease

About the role

The Senior Manager, Brand Analytics & Insights, Rare Disease serves as a trusted analytics partner across multiple U.S. Rare Disease brand teams, providing leadership in the generation, interpretation, and communication of data-driven insights that inform key business decisions and commercial priorities. This role leads complex analytics initiatives, owns projects from end-to-end, translating diverse data sources into meaningful business insights that support brand performance and organizational objectives.

The Senior Manager is responsible for driving analytical excellence through the design and execution of advanced analyses and dashboards, performance measurement frameworks, and reporting solutions that enhance business understanding and decision-making.

The role partners cross-functionally with Commercial, Marketing, Forecasting, Data Management, Operations, and external vendors to enhance analytics capabilities, optimize performance, and ensure insights are effectively integrated into strategic planning and execution.

The role requires strong analytical expertise, project leadership skills, and effective communication skills to translate between business requirements and analytical specifications.

Main Responsibilities & Technical Competencies

• Lead the development, enhancement, and governance of key performance metrics and dashboards supporting U.S. RDBU brands
• Manage and execute complex analytical projects utilizing claims, prescription, specialty pharmacy/specialty distributor, sales, and customer engagement (CRM) datasets to identify trends, opportunities, and business performance drivers.
• Translate complex analytical findings into clear, actionable insights through impactful presentations and executive-ready summaries for business stakeholders.
• Serve as a trusted analytics leader to Rare Disease brand teams, providing data-driven recommendations that support commercial and marketing objectives.
• Proactively partner with Data Management, Data Operations, MDM, and external vendors to ensure high-quality, timely reporting and continuous process improvement.
• Champion continuous improvement efforts by identifying opportunities to streamline reporting, automate processes, and improve efficiency across analytics workflows.
• Provide analytical leadership and insights to support business reviews, forecasting, brand planning, launch readiness activities, and commercial performance assessments.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Commercial, Marketing, Operations, and other key stakeholders to align analytics deliverables with evolving business priorities.
• Leverage analytics tools, data assets, and industry best practices to advance reporting capabilities and support informed decision making across the Rare Disease Business Unit.

Knowledge & Experience

Knowledge & Experience (essential)

• 5-7 years in pharmaceutical/biotech analytics, insights, commercial analytics, or life sciences consultancy roles.
• Proficient technical skills in modern analytics tech stack, such as SQL, advanced excel modelling, cloud-based analytics platforms, programming languages (python/R), visualization tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
• Deep experience with pharmaceutical secondary data, claims, RWD, specialty pharmacy/distributor data, sales performance analytics, CRM/call data analysis, MDM.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong project management skills to thrive in a fast-paced environment; agile mindset to pivot priorities to best service evolving business needs.

Education / Certifications

• Bachelor's Degree required in relevant field

Language(s) (essential)

• English

Additional information

This role offers a hybrid work schedule in accordance with the Ipsen Hybrid Working Policy, with employees working onsite in Cambridge, MA, 3 days per week, and may require up to 20% travel to support business needs.

Visa Sponsorship: This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future employer-sponsored work authorization.

Pay and benefits

The annual base salary range for this position is $112,500-$165,000. This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentives program.

At Ipsen we are proud to offer a comprehensive employee benefits package, including 401(k) with company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, short- and long-term disability insurance, as well as flexible spending accounts. Ipsen also provides parental leave, paid time off, a discretionary winter shutdown, well-being allowance, commuter benefits, and much more.

The pay range displayed above is the range of base pay compensation within which Ipsen expects to pay for this role at the time of this posting. Individual compensation within this range depends on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, prior education and experience, job-related knowledge and demonstrated skills.

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