About Summit:
Summit Therapeutics Inc. is a biopharmaceutical oncology company with a mission focused on improving quality of life, increasing potential duration of life, and resolving serious unmet medical needs. At Summit, we believe in building a team of world class professionals who are passionate about this mission, and it is our people who drive this mission to reality. Summit’s core values include integrity, passion for excellence, purposeful urgency, collaboration, and our commitment to people. Our employees are truly the heart and soul of our culture, and they are invaluable in shaping our journey toward excellence.
Summit’s team is inspired to touch and help change lives through Summit’s clinical studies in the field of oncology. Summit has multiple global Phase 3 clinical studies, including:
Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)
HARMONi: Phase 3 clinical study which was intended to evaluate ivonescimab combined with chemotherapy compared to placebo plus chemotherapy in patients with EGFR-mutated, locally advanced or metastatic non-squamous NSCLC who were previously treated with a 3rd generation EGFR TKI.
HARMONi-3: Phase 3 clinical study which is intended to evaluate ivonescimab combined with chemotherapy compared to pembrolizumab combined with chemotherapy in patients with first-line metastatic NSCLC.
HARMONi-7: Phase 3 clinical study which is intended to evaluate ivonescimab monotherapy compared to pembrolizumab monotherapy in patients with first-line metastatic NSCLC.
Colorectal Cancer (CRC)
HARMONi-GI3: Phase 3 clinical study intended to evaluate ivonescimab in combination with chemotherapy compared with bevacizumab plus chemotherapy.
Ivonescimab is an investigational therapy not presently approved by any regulatory authority other than China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA). Summit is headquartered in Miami, Florida, and has additional offices in California, New Jersey, the UK, and Ireland.
Overview of Role:
The Director, Competitive Intelligence position reports to the Executive Director, Oncology Market Planning to support strategic planning activities by providing actionable recommendations based on assessments of markets and competitors, both existing and potential.
Role and Responsibilities:
- Provide comprehensive market and competitive intelligence insights, strategies, scenarios and impact based on in-depth research through presentations and reports to the Director of Portfolio Strategy and various internal management teams to allow effective strategic and tactical decision-making and implementation
- Collaborate with brand teams to plan for competitor launches by co-planning strategic wargames and supporting rigorous competitive readiness plans.
- Provide situational analysis and CI inputs to support new indication planning, brand planning, launch readiness reviews, and other strategic forums.
- Conduct competitive threat assessments for key competitors (scientific rationale, MoA, clinical data, timing, messaging/positioning, field force, access dynamics) to develop rigorous assumptions and actionable scenarios; align assumptions and implications with cross-functional stakeholders.
- Ensure up-to-date competitive intelligence and implications are shared with internal stakeholders (includes news alert, congress coverage, pipeline updates, disease are landscape reviews).
- Design and execute compliant primary intelligence plans to address prioritized intelligence questions; synthesize insights into implications, scenarios, and recommendations to inform competitive readiness and brand strategy.
- Responsible for understanding real-time changes to the competitive and market landscape and communicating the impacts of these changes to the organization
- Select appropriate research methodology to address business objectives
- Manage vendor partnerships including negotiating costs, on-boarding, ensuring accountability, and timely project execution
- Conduct in depth opportunity assessment on new indications, including market viability, competitive landscape, drivers and barriers, and financial projections
- Support target product profile (TPP) development and conduct primary market research to guide cross-functional development and business strategy.
- Provide analytical support to Commercial, Clinical, Regulatory and BD on an ad hoc basis to solve problems and inform strategy
- Develop and maintain relationships with key internal stakeholders to identify emerging needs and business challenges
- Drive innovative CI capabilities and ways of working (e.g., AI, improved processes, deliverable templates, knowledge management), and assess impact to continuously improve CI value to the organization.
- All other duties as assigned.
Experience, Education and Specialized Knowledge and Skills:
- Bachelors Degree in Biotech or related field. Advanced degree (PhD, MD, PharmD, MBA) preferred
- Minimum of 10+ years experience working in oncology/pharma market with emphasis on Non-small Cell Lung cancer and other Solid Tumors
- Candidate should have extensive knowledge in the Non-small Cell Lung cancer, competitive intelligence, with the ability to identify and collect appropriate competitor, market, economic, financial and/or operational data, perform financial and qualitative data analysis of markets and competitors, and interpret large amounts of data and translate that data into executable and effective market and intelligence reports
- Experienced in leading and facilitating competitive workshops
- Experienced with developing and executing primary and secondary market research. Experience in Global market research is preferred
- Interpret complex clinical data, identify implications to Summit, formulate reports and make recommendations
- Provide competitive analysis on various companies’ market offerings, identify market trends, pricing/business models, sales and methods of operation
- Remain fully informed on market trends, other parties research and implement best practices
- Good communication and presentation skills
- Advanced skill level with Powerpoint, Excel and similar data tools
- Skilled at collecting & aggregating large amounts of market, sales, customer, and competitor data in Excel and other reporting tools
- Ability to travel up to 50%
This is the pay for this position
Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor. The total compensation package for this position may also include bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable variable compensation.
Summit does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact Summit’s Talent Acquisition team at [email protected] to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to Summit.
Summit Therapeutics Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and takes pride in creating and maintaining diverse environment. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training or promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's Degree in Biotech or related field
- 8+ years experience in oncology/pharma market
- Extensive knowledge in Non-small Cell Lung cancer and competitive intelligence
- Experience in primary and secondary market research
- Advanced skill level with Powerpoint and Excel
What We Do
Summit Mission Statement: To build a viable, long-lasting health care organization that assumes full responsibility for designing, developing, trial execution and enrollment, regulatory submission and approval, as well as successful commercialization of patient, physician, caregiver, and societal-friendly medicinal therapy intended to: improve quality of life, increase potential duration of life, and resolve serious medical healthcare needs. To identify and control promising product candidates based on exceptional scientific development and administrational expertise, develop our products in a rapid, cost-efficient manner, and to engage commercialization and/or development partners when appropriate. We accomplish this by building a team of world class professional scientists and business administrators that apply their experience and knowledge to this mission. Team Summit exists to pose, strategize, and execute a path forward in medicinal therapeutic health care that places Summit in a well-deserved, top market share, leadership position. Team Summit assumes full responsibility for stimulating continuous expansion of knowledge, ability, capability, and well-being for all involved stakeholders and highly-valued shareholders. Summit was founded in 2003 and our shares are listed on the Nasdaq Global Market (symbol ‘SMMT’). We are headquartered in Miami, Florida, and we have additional offices in Palo Alto, California, Princeton, New Jersey, Oxford, UK, and Dublin, Ireland.
