Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Executive Director, Strategic Market Insights

Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Massachusetts • United States

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Salary

💰 $230,000 - $265,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Shape the end-to-end market insights agenda to inform brand, franchise, and portfolio decisions across the lifecycle.
  • Serve as a trusted, consultative advisor to senior leadership and cross-functional teams across Commercial, Medical, Supply, R&D, Communications, Investor Relations and other functions.
  • Ensure that market, patient, and customer insights are translated into clear, actionable recommendations that drive competitive advantage and sustainable growth.
  • Your team will act as the single point of contact from Insights & Analytics (I&A) to cross‑functional partners, coordinating strategy and execution across Market Insights, Competitive Intelligence, Forecasting, and Portfolio Planning.
  • Reporting to the VP, Insights & Analytics, this role operates with significant autonomy and executive visibility.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree required, advanced degree preferred
  • 15+ years of Pharma / biotech experience in market insights or related roles
  • Demonstrated success leading integrated market insights strategy for specialty and/or rare disease therapies
  • Experience in Neurology, Cardiology, as well as broad and rare disease markets strongly preferred
  • Proven track record building and leading scalable, high‑performing teams, including people leaders
  • Diverse commercial background (e.g., prior roles in Marketing, Sales, Strategy, or Market Access) with mastery of how insights inform P&L, investment decisions, and resource allocation, strongly preferred.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity, create structure, synthesize multiple data sources into coherent, actionable narratives and recommendations, driving alignment on complex, cross functional issues
  • Deep experience in the U.S. market launches required, global market insights experience preferred
  • Strong executive presence with a proven ability to influence cross‑functional and enterprise‑level decisions, including VP/EVP‑level stakeholders
  • High emotional intelligence, with a track record of reconciling dissenting views, negotiating tradeoffs, and driving to outcomes that balance enterprise, functional, and brand needs
  • Excellent judgment and willingness to take prudent risks, grounded in objective data and market realities
  • Innate curiosity and entrepreneurial spirit, with strong personal drive and ownership
  • Insatiable learner with demonstrated ability to rapidly get smart on new therapeutic areas, markets, and methods, and to continuously raise the bar for the function
  • Proven ability to operate in a high-velocity, fast-changing environment, setting pace and priorities for others while maintaining composure and sound judgment
  • Exceptional conceptual thinking and pattern recognition skills, with a track record of spotting connections and implications that are not obvious to others.
Benefits
  • highly competitive benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
market insightscompetitive intelligenceforecastingportfolio planningdata synthesisP&L managementinvestment decisionsresource allocationU.S. market launchesglobal market insights
Soft Skills
executive presenceinfluenceemotional intelligencenegotiationjudgmentcuriosityentrepreneurial spiritpersonal driveconceptual thinkingpattern recognition
Certifications
Bachelor's degreeadvanced degree