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.
The salary range below reflects the full-time base salary range we expect to pay for this role at the time of posting. Base pay will be determined based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, education, scope of job, internal comparisons, and market data.
Skills Required
- BS/BA in relevant field
- MBA, MD, PhD, or other graduate degree
- 15+ years business experience in pharma/biotech/biopharma or consulting
- Strong understanding of primary and secondary market research methodologies
- Proven experience leading vendor selection and managing research partners
- Hands-on forecasting experience, including scenario planning
- 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
- Ability to travel up to 25% as needed
What We Do
Beam Therapeutics, launched in 2018, is pioneering the use of CRISPR base editing to develop a broad portfolio of advanced genetic medicines. Our groundbreaking base editing technology allows us to make permanent, specific edits to single bases in DNA and RNA, without cutting the strands. Base editor therapeutics represent a new class of “precision genetic medicines,” combining precision targeting of the genome with precision control of editing outcomes. Our dream is to provide life-long cures for patients suffering from serious diseases. The Beam Team Is: • A community of fearless innovators • Rigorous and honest in our research • Listening with open minds • Committed to each other
