Manager, Competitive Intelligence

Responsibilities:

• Excellent employment opportunity for a Manager, Competitive Intelligence in the Santa Monica, CA area.
• The Manager, Competitive Intelligence supports global Competitive Intelligence (CI) activities in support of Company's cell therapy business.
• The role is focused on collaborating with a broad cross-functional group of stakeholders to collect, synthesize and deliver key insights about the competitive environment and the implications to Company's business related to pipeline compounds.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, including Commercial, Medical Affairs, Clinical, Research, Regulatory, Corporate Development and Legal, to define objectives and research needs
  • Define key strategic business questions
  • Determine specific research needs and appropriate collection and synthesis methods
  • Evaluate and make recommendations on CI tools, processes and services such as information dashboards, submission capturing and standardized reporting

• Develop and present key Competitive Intelligence deliverables
  • Synthesis and communication of scientific and commercial insights from medical research conferences
  • Maintain select competitor product profiles and competitive analyses
  • Manage vendors to source relevant CI
  • Ad hoc analysis of key business questions
• Manage collection of field intelligence through compliant engagement with internal sources
• Follow predefined standards to ensure legal and ethical approaches to CI, protecting business interests and confidentiality in select situations and work to improve processes
  

Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree with a concentration in Life Sciences, Marketing, or Business
• Understanding of the Hematology / Oncology Clinical Landscape (3+ years of experience)
• Strong knowledge regarding the drug development and commercialization process to assess and contextualize competitive efforts
• Demonstrated ability to perform competitive analyses and extract business insights
• Ability to interpret and synthesize pre-clinical and clinical scientific data and identify broader implications for our programs and / or specific opportunities
• History of independence in researching, formulating and delivering CI assessments (including basic information as well as strategic insights based on that information)
• Experienced with using online data sources and scientific / market databases (e.g., Pubmed, clinicaltrials.gov, TrialTrove, Evaluate Pharma, etc.)
• Proven ability to present at and facilitate small group and large group meetings (with peers as well as superiors) to achieve pre-defined objectives
• Excellent task management skills (specifically project planning, prioritization, objective setting, meeting management and plan execution) are required
• Business travel is required
• Preferred Qualifications
  • Prior cell therapy and/or solid tumor experience
  • Competitive Intelligence work experience preferred