Director, Insights & Analytics

Position Overview:

Beam is looking for a highly motivated and experienced Insights & Analytics leader to expand our commercial capabilities as we advance our portfolio toward potential commercialization.  The Director, Insights & Analytics will lead the development and execution of market insights, forecasting, and competitive intelligence capabilities across Beam’s portfolio. This role will serve as a strategic partner to Marketing, Market Access, Patient Operations, Medical Affairs, and Portfolio Strategy to translate key business questions into actionable insights that inform decision-making across the product lifecycle.  In addition, the Director, Insights & Analytics will directly support early pipeline assets, e.g. provide market sizing, competitive landscape analyses, drivers for therapy and brand choice.

This position requires both strategic thinking and hands-on execution in a fast-moving, cross-functional environment.

Responsibilities:

Market Insights & Research Leadership

• Build and lead market research capability across the portfolio.
• Partner with Marketing, Market Access, Medical Affairs, and Portfolio Strategy to define key business questions.
• Recommend appropriate market research methodologies and lead RFP processes and vendor selection for market research projects.
• Manage external research partners and ensure high-quality execution.
• Develop initial discussion guides, surveys, and stimuli in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Synthesize research findings into clear, actionable insights and facilitate cross-functional sharing.

Forecasting & Analytical Support

• Lead forecasting processes across the portfolio, including:
• Patient flow and demand models
• Market uptake scenarios
• Sensitivity analyses and risk scenarios
• Develop and maintain analytical tools and models to support asset-level and portfolio-level decision making.

Competitive Intelligence

• Establish and lead competitive intelligence processes across the portfolio.
• Monitor competitive clinical, regulatory, and commercial developments.
• Manage external CI vendors and spearhead CI strategy and coverage for conferences.
• Synthesize competitive insights into implications for strategy, positioning, and planning.
• Support scenario planning and strategic trade-off discussions.

Early Pipeline & Portfolio Analyses

• Support early-stage assets with:
• Epidemiology and market sizing
• Competitive landscape assessments
• Unmet need and treatment paradigm analyses
• Possibly facilitate early asset TPP generation.

Qualifications:

• BS/BA in a relevant academic field; MBA, MD, PhD, or other graduate degree strongly preferred.
• 15+ years business experience within the pharma/biotech/biopharma space or consulting.
• Strong understanding of primary and secondary market research methodologies.
• Proven experience leading vendor selection and managing research partners.
• Must be capable of managing and prioritizing multiple activities.
• Hands-on forecasting experience, including scenario planning, strongly preferred.
• Ability to synthesize complex data into clear strategic insights.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building new processes from scratch.
• Excellent communication and executive presentation skills.
• Experience in rare disease, specialty, or cell and gene therapy is a plus.
• Role is based in Cambridge, MA, or hybrid.
• Ability to travel 25% as needed.