Associate Director, Commercial Analytics

The role

The Associate Director, Commercial Analytics drives promotional effectiveness analytics for TRUTAKNA. This individual contributor role builds models, interprets data, and provides forecasting support to commercial leadership.

What you will do

• Drive promotional effectiveness analytics for TRUTAKNA
• Build and interpret promotional response models, program ROI analyses, and channel and campaign measurement
• Estimate sales impact of personal and non-personal channels using statistical and predictive modeling
• Support field sizing, deployment, territory alignment, goal setting, and incentive compensation design
• Analyze field activity and territory performance
• Support development and maintenance of patient-based demand forecasts
• Pressure-test forecast assumptions using analog launch benchmarks, real-world data, and primary market research
• Provide analytics to reconcile demand signals with financial forecasts and supply planning
• Build reusable, well-documented analytics assets
• Apply AI and generative AI tools to accelerate analysis and automate reporting

Required qualifications

• Advanced degree (MS, MPH, PhD, or MBA) preferred or a bachelor’s degree in a quantitative or scientific field with commensurate depth of experience
• 5+ years of commercial analytics, business insights, or commercial data experience on biotech or pharmaceutical commercial teams
• Demonstrated ownership of promotional effectiveness work, including promotional response modeling, program ROI, and channel or campaign measurement
• Experience supporting patient-based demand forecasting, including funnel or patient flow models
• Hands-on experience with real-world data assets, including anonymized patient-level data, claims, lab data, specialty pharmacy or HUB data, and syndicated prescription or shipment data
• Experience working with internal business data sources, including CRM and field activity data, patient services data, and market access or channel data
• Advanced Excel
• Proficiency with BI and visualization tools such as Tableau or Power BI
• Practical, current proficiency with AI tools applied to biotechnology commercial work
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities across a broad stakeholder set with limited direction

Nice to have

• exposure to marketing mix modeling or promotional sequence optimization
• Python, SQL, R
• Depth in forecasting methodology, including scenario modeling, long-range forecasting, and analog-based assumption development
• Experience commissioning primary market research and integrating it with secondary and internal data
• Product launch experience in a specialty, rare disease, or nephrology, immunology, or autoimmune setting
• Experience in a small or mid-sized biotech where the analytics function is being built rather than inherited
• Experience managing analytics vendors, agencies, or offshore delivery teams

Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401k match
• flexible time off
• paid holidays

About the company

Vera Therapeutics is a commercial-stage biotechnology company focused on the pursuit of truth in science to transform medicine in autoimmune disease, starting with the kidney. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Brisbane, California.