Vice President, Insights & Analytics

The role

The Vice President, Insights & Analytics will build Vaxcyte's commercial insights, analytics, and forecasting capabilities. This leader will oversee the Market Research and Competitive Intelligence team and establish new commercial analytics functions to inform strategic and operational decision-making.

What you will do

• Define and execute the I&A strategy, operating model, and phased capability build
• Build and lead a team spanning market research, competitive intelligence, forecasting, and commercial analytics
• Establish data acquisition, governance, and utilization priorities
• Lead market research and competitive intelligence to understand healthcare professionals, patients, and payers
• Oversee commercial forecasting
• Establish the commercial measurement and reporting framework
• Deliver actionable analyses and recommendations across sales, marketing, and market access
• Partner with commercial leaders to align research, forecasting, and analytics priorities
• Serve as a trusted advisor to the Chief Commercial Officer and executive leadership

Required qualifications

• BA/BS degree in a scientific discipline, business, or a quantitative field
• Minimum of 15+ years of industry-related experience
• 7+ years in insights, analytics, forecasting, or market research leadership roles within pharmaceutical, biotech, or vaccine organizations
• Direct exposure to vaccine product launch
• Demonstrated experience building an Insights & Analytics function from the ground up, or serving as one of the first I&A hires in a pre-launch or early-launch commercial-stage company
• Deep understanding of vaccine commercial data and analytics ecosystem including syndicated sales and claims data, primary and secondary market research methodologies, forecasting methodologies for com
• Working familiarity with AI-enabled analytics tools
• Familiarity with GPO, P&T committee, and payor contracting timelines
• Proven ability to translate complex data into a clear, decision-ready narrative for commercial and executive leadership
• Ability to travel 20% of the time

Nice to have

• MBA or other advanced degree
• Experience launching U.S. vaccines and/or specialty biologics

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits
• Equity component

About the company

Vaxcyte is a clinical-stage vaccine innovation company engineering high-fidelity vaccines to protect humankind from the consequences of bacterial diseases.