Associate Director - Market Research and Competitive Intelligence

The Opportunity

Reporting to the Senior Director, Market Insights, the Associate Director, Market Research & Competitive Intelligence will lead primary market research and competitive intelligence to support commercialization of avexitide in post-bariatric hypoglycemia (PBH). This highly visible, hands-on role will develop and execute an integrated insights plan spanning foundational, strategic, communications, and tracking research, including HCP and patient attitudes, trial, and usage (ATU) studies.

The role will also lead competitive intelligence efforts that provide timely, objective, and actionable perspectives on the PBH disease state, emerging treatment landscape, competitor activity, and market implications. While PBH and avexitide commercialization will be the primary focus, this individual will provide fit-for-purpose market research and competitive intelligence support for New Products Planning (NPP), pipeline assets, and selected business-development needs.

Responsibilities

• PBH insights leadership: Serve as the primary market research and competitive intelligence partner for PBH commercialization, translating business questions into an integrated insights plan that informs market development, launch strategy, and execution.
• Patient Journey: Partner with Forecasting, Analytics, Marketing, Market Access, Medical Affairs and other stakeholders to integrate research and secondary data to maintain a deep understanding of the Patient Journey.
• Integrated Insights: Share key insights with the organization as needed and as a core team member to the Central Insights Team. Oversee updates to the Facts and Insights document so that it provides an accurate view of insights to the organization
• Primary market research: Lead end-to-end qualitative and quantitative research with healthcare professionals, patients, caregivers, and other relevant stakeholders, from problem definition and study design through vendor oversight, analysis, synthesis, and action planning.
• Tracking and ATU research: Lead HCP and patient ATU and other tracking research, including KPI definition, questionnaire evolution, wave-to-wave comparability, trend interpretation, and integration of findings into commercialization decisions and launch-readiness planning.
• Competitive intelligence leadership: Establish and lead the PBH competitive intelligence process, covering competitor pipelines, clinical data, scientific activity, regulatory developments, business and investor activity, partnerships, market-entry signals, and relevant disease-state developments.
• Strategic implications: Move beyond news reporting to assess potential impact, identify risks and opportunities, and recommend actions for brand, medical, market access, commercial, and corporate stakeholders.
• CI communication and governance: Maintain competitor profiles, landscape assessments, timelines, trackers, SWOTs, source documentation, and recurring updates, with clear escalation criteria for high-impact developments.
• NPP and pipeline support: Provide fit-for-purpose primary research and competitive intelligence for NPP and pipeline assets, including opportunity assessments, target product profile input, unmet-needs exploration, indication prioritization, differentiation, and commercial potential.
• Vendor and budget management: Select and manage market research and CI partners, including RFPs, scopes of work, budgets, timelines, quality standards, compliance requirements, and performance expectations.
• Executive communication: Translate complex and sometimes conflicting evidence into concise, objective, decision-oriented narratives and visual outputs for senior leadership and cross-functional teams.
• Research excellence and compliance: Apply rigorous research standards, protect respondent confidentiality, support appropriate adverse-event and product-complaint reporting, and document methods, limitations, and sources.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required in business, marketing, market research, social sciences, public health, life sciences, statistics, or a related field; advanced degree is a plus.
• 10+ of relevant experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, life sciences consulting, primary market research, competitive intelligence, commercial insights, or related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience leading qualitative and quantitative pharmaceutical market research across the project lifecycle, including business-question framing, research design, vendor management, analysis, synthesis, and stakeholder activation.
• Experience with strategic and tracking research, including HCP or patient ATU studies; patient journey, segmentation, demand, positioning, messaging, campaign, or launch-readiness research strongly preferred.
• Experience developing or leading competitive intelligence programs, including secondary monitoring, landscape assessments, conference intelligence, synthesis of implications, and executive communication.
• Experience supporting launch-stage brands, specialty or rare-disease markets, and pre-commercial assets strongly preferred.
• Ability to integrate primary research, secondary data, competitive intelligence, clinical evidence, and internal perspectives while clearly distinguishing facts, assumptions, and implications.
• Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills, including the ability to distill complex findings into clear strategic choices and recommendations.
• Strong vendor, project, and budget management skills, with the ability to manage concurrent studies, recurring intelligence activities, and urgent ad hoc requests.
• High degree of curiosity, objectivity, judgment, attention to detail, and comfort operating in a fast-paced environment with evolving priorities and incomplete information.

Work Location and Conditions

• At Amylyx, we proudly support remote work opportunities within the United States. However, due to business considerations related to health insurance coverage and state tax regulations, we are unable to hire employees who reside and/or work in certain states. Currently, we are not considering applicants from Alaska and Hawaii.
• You will be expected to travel to our corporate location in Cambridge, MA several times a year and attend other company-related events as necessary and requested.
• You must have access to work in setting which enables meeting all requirements of the role (including privacy, reliable internet access, phone, ability to video conference, etc.) at your remote location.

Estimated Pay Range 195000 - 219000 USD