Director, Insights & Analytics

About this role

Company Overview:

Beam Therapeutics is a biotechnology company committed to establishing the leading, fully integrated platform for precision genetic medicines. To achieve this vision, Beam has assembled a platform with integrated gene editing, delivery and internal manufacturing capabilities. Beam’s suite of gene editing technologies is anchored by base editing, a proprietary technology that is designed to enable precise, predictable and efficient single base changes, at targeted genomic sequences, without making double-stranded breaks in the DNA. This has the potential to enable a wide range of therapeutic editing strategies that Beam is using to advance a diversified portfolio of base editing programs. Beam is a values-driven organization committed to its people, cutting-edge science, and a vision of providing life-long cures to patients suffering from serious diseases.

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

• Experience in cell and gene therapy is strongly preferred.

• 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.

• Role is based in Cambridge, MA.

• Onsite requirements: Candidates are expected to come onsite 1-3 days per week.

• Ability to travel 25% as needed.

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