Global Head of Insights, Analytics and Competitive Intelligence

Join us as we transform immunology and deliver medicines that help autoimmune patients get their lives back. argenx is preparing for multi-dimensional expansion to reach more patients through a rich pipeline of differentiated assets, led by VYVGART, our first-in-class neonatal Fc receptor blocker approved for the treatment of gMG, and with the potential to treat patients across dozens of severe autoimmune diseases.

We are building a new kind of biotech company, one that maintains its roots as a science-based start-up and pushes our commitment to innovate across all corners of our business. We strive to inspire and grow our company, our partnerships, our science, and our people, because when we do, we deliver more for patients. 

The Global Head of Insights, Analytics and Competitive Intelligence is responsible for all market research and competitive intelligence activities to support the both in-line indication and the pipeline.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Partner with the commercialization community and select regions to garner key customer, market and competitive insights
• Build and lead a team of insights, analytics and CI colleagues
• Develop global insights, analytics and CI capabilities for the organization

• Establish and maintain appropriate competitive intelligence process to support company, brand, and pipeline planning processes globally
• Develop systematic performance and analytics dashboards and tracking
• Effectively manage multiple external vendor/partner relationships to ensure high quality and insightful deliverables to help manage the business
• Provide leadership on data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning methods, predictive analytics, validation, and tools to drive impactful business decisions
• Lead the proposal, design and execution of qualitative and quantitative market research and analytics initiatives to support existing and future assets

• Analyse and interpret results from research in context of collective insights, prepare meaningful, timely reports and presentations for the brand and leadership team

• Partner with Finance to manage the department budget including vendor agreements and contracts
   

Skills and Competencies:

• Technical expertise in insights, analytics and competitive intelligence
• Ability to cut through extensive data to garner key actionable insights
• Highly skilled in influencing cross-functional teams, including interfacing with key internal and external stakeholders and with scientific and commercial teams
• Compliantly track and monitor key competitor activity. Help translate the findings into key implications and strategy
• Strong leader focused on colleague development
• Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills
• Adaptive and motivated to build and lead while "rolling up their sleeves" to get it done
• Ability to manage partner relationships
• Ability to influence without authority
• Ability to partner with Business Information Systems (BIS) to define systems requirements
• Ability to travel up to 30% of the time

Education, Experience and Qualifications:

• BA or BS, Advanced Degree Preferred
• 15+ years in market research, analytics and competitive intelligence.
• Comprehensive understanding of common qualitative and quantitative market research methodologies
• Strong analytical skills with the capability to effectively define business issues and recommendations
• Start-up and Launch experience a plus
• Familiarity with leading pharma industry commercial vendors and data sources