US Brand Insights Director - R&I
Wilmington, DE (Unknown)
Salary Not AvailableDirector/Executive5+ years exp
Posted 2 weeks ago
Job Summary
Owns brand strategy and analytics programs, turning market signals into positioning, messaging, and demand plans while coordinating cross-functional insights, forecasting, and executive storytelling.
- Lead competitive intelligence and lifecycle analytics to inform strategy.
- Partner with Sales Ops, Finance, Market Access, and Global teams to translate insights into execution.
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Brand Strategy Insights: Partner with the Brand team to translate qualitative and quantitative market signals into focused strategies for positioning, messaging, segmentation, and demand estimation that drive performance.
- Marketing Mix Performance: Guide performance analytics for personal and non-personal promotion, ensuring materials and tactics are shaped by evidence and optimized for impact.
- Foresight and Lifecycle Analytics: Build a forward-looking insight and analytics plan that anticipates market shifts and brand lifecycle needs, enabling agile adjustments and sustained growth.
- Competitive Intelligence: Lead continuous competitive assessment and synthesize external analyses into implications that inform brand strategy and forecast assumptions.
- Forecast Leadership: Align and pressure-test the product forecast and key drivers, collaborating closely with Forecasting and Analytics to ensure a single, trusted view of performance.
- Cross-Functional Alignment: Collaborate with Sales Operations, Finance, Market Access, and Global partners to ensure insights translate into coherent commercial strategies and field execution.
- Executive Influence: Present compelling narratives to senior leadership that clarify choices, quantify trade-offs, and guide decisive action.
- Resource Planning: Co-design the insight and research plan with senior insight leadership to focus budgets and talent where they create the most value.
- Conduct Market research, analysis and insights.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree (scientific or commercial related field) is required
- Experience in conducting qualitative and quantitative market research across different stakeholder groups (e.g. HCPs, patients and payers)
- 5+ years experience in the pharmaceutical industry
- Proven ability to conduct analytics using secondary data sources key to the pharmaceutical industry (IQVIA, Prognos, Decision Resources, patient level data) and performance tracking
- Good business acumen, strategic thinking and understanding of sales and marketing business practices
- Ability to influence laterally and vertically
- High emotional intelligence
- Ability to lead projects
- Ability to manage multiple tasks/assignments to demanding deadlines with minimal supervision
- Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills as well as teamwork abilities
Preferred
- High degree of creativity and innovation in developing new approaches, processes and methodologies
- Experience conducting pre-product launch market research (e.g., positioning, segmentation)
- In depth knowledge of respiratory market dynamics
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Founded in 1999
Cambridge, England, GBR
77K employees (4,201 in marketing)
78% recommend to a friend
89% CEO approval
Marketing Team
Marketing Team Size
3,642 (5% of company)
Median Career Experience
15 years
Median Tenure
5.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
15
People
Marketing Leadership

Nadia Al-Aydi
Head US Marketing, Oncology Business Unit, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals
At the company for 2 years 3 months

Stephen Borboroglu
Global Head of Marketing, baxdrostat / dapagliflozin
At the company for 6 years 1 month

Robert Hillman
Head of US Marketing Immunology
At the company for 2 years 6 months

Mike Hill
Global Head of Marketing & Market Access | Oncology Diagnostics
At the company for 3 years
Funding
Total Funding
$7.3B
Last Raise
$2B
Post IPO Debt, 19 days ago
Funding History
- Feb 2026Post IPO Debt • $2B
- Jul 2024Post IPO Debt • $1.5B
- Feb 2023Post IPO Debt • $2.3B
Traffic Signals
Monthly Visitors
1.3M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$3.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
45.1%
Direct
42%
Referral
9.3%
Social
2.6%
Paid
0.9%
Headcount Trend
Current headcount: ~76.8K




































