Senior Manager, Competitive Intelligence

CSL; Opfikon; On-site; CHF 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

CSL Behring is seeking a Senior Manager of Competitive Intelligence to guide evidence-based strategic decisions across TAs such as Iron, Nephrology, and CV renal. You will deliver industry and competitive analyses to inform commercialization, lifecycle management, and strategic planning on a global scale.

The role requires senior-level synthesis of quantitative and qualitative data, effective communication with senior leadership, and collaboration with Commercial Development, International

Qualifications

• BA or BS required; advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum 7 years of relevant business experience, including at least 5 years in competitive intelligence, 2 years in advanced analytics, and 3+ years in secondary market research.
• Pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry experience required; global manufacturing experience preferred.
• Some travel required.
• Strong analytical capabilities with the ability to apply CI methodologies and related analytical approaches.
• Proven research skills, including the ability to interpret, validate, and leverage insights from multiple sources.
• Ability to apply sound analytical techniques, with advanced analytics a plus.
• Strategic thinker able to advise on long-range planning and contribute to future business strategies.
• Demonstrated experience working across multidisciplinary and cross-functional teams.
• Experience with process design, systems management, and database management.
• Experience managing budgets and external CI vendors.

Responsibilities

• Supports CI program development and advancement across CSL, providing leadership and ensuring CI outputs inform business decisions.
• Identifies industry drivers, risks, opportunities, and threats to support commercialization planning.
• Partners with therapy areas, Insights & Analytics, and cross-functional stakeholders to define KITs/KIQs and intelligence plans.
• Triangulates, validates, and assesses credibility of collected intelligence and related assumptions.
• Translates intelligence into timely insights and actionable recommendations for product commercialization and strategy.
• Leverages internal knowledge and SMEs to evaluate implications of threats and opportunities.
• Leads CI programs in line with policies and ethics, including external CI vendors management.

Skills

Competitive intelligence

Advanced analytics

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic thinking

Research skills

Budget management

Stakeholder communication

Education

BA/BS required

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Vendor management

Database management

Job description

The Senior Manager, Competitive Intelligence will support the Global Competitive
Intelligence team by providing evidence-based strategic and tactical guidance through
actionable intelligence to inform decision-making across CSL Behring. This role will work
closely with the Global Competitive Intelligence Lead, Market Insights, and Forecasting
teams to deliver relevant, timely, and actionable industry and competitive analysis as
input into the Commercial Evaluation process and investment-related decision-making.

The incumbent will support therapy areas (TAs) to plan, recommend, develop and
oversee all functional outputs that maximize the impact of Competitive Intelligence and
analytics efforts. TAs may include Iron, Nephrology, and CardioVascular Renal.
This role will require presentations to senior management, leveraging industry and
competitive insights to support lifecycle management, global commercialization, and
strategic planning for CSL’s inline and pipeline portfolios. The scope is global and requires
close collaboration across multiple functions, including Commercial Development
therapy areas, International Business Teams, Commercial Operations, Finance, R&D,
Medical Affairs, Regulatory, and other key stakeholders.

The incumbent will help guide internal decision-making and contribute to strategic
planning by keeping stakeholders informed of evolving industry dynamics and their
potential impact on CSL’s strategic outlook. This individual must be able to integrate and
cross-analyze quantitative and qualitative information from multiple sources, with
minimal supervision, and translate it into comprehensive, well-supported
recommendations that are relevant, timely, and actionable for product
commercialization and strategy development.

Corporate Competitive Intelligence (CI)

• Supports the continued development and advancement of the Competitive
  Intelligence discipline across CSL, providing thought leadership and helping ensure CI outputs are appropriately integrated into business decision-making.
• Identifies and proactively monitors industry drivers, risks, opportunities, and
  competitive threats to inform commercialization planning and strategy
  development.
• Partners closely with TA/Brand teams, Insights & Analytics, and other cross-
  functional stakeholders to define and maintain prioritized Key Intelligence Topics
  and Questions (KITs/KIQs), as well as targeted intelligence-gathering plans.
• Triangulates, validates, and assesses the credibility of collected intelligence and
  related assumptions.
• Translates intelligence into timely insights, actionable recommendations, and
  practical solutions that support business decisions and strategic planning.

Analysis

• Identifies and analyzes targeted industry intelligence, market trends, and
  competitive developments across therapy areas to support commercialization
  planning, decision-making, and strategy development.
• Contributes to franchise and brand strategy as a Competitive Intelligence subject
  matter expert.
• Interprets and assesses competitor strategies for integration into brand strategy
  development, including pressure-testing the sustainability of strategic plans.
• Conducts secondary industry research and develops insightful analyses across
  treatment flows, competitor dynamics, and product fit to support the Commercial
  Evaluation process.
• Identifies key threats and opportunities and advises on action planning and
  competitor response strategy development.
• Leverages internal knowledge and subject matter experts, as needed, to evaluate
  the implications of competitor threats and opportunities.
• Conducts and/or leads CI programs in accordance with company policies and
  industry codes of ethics to supplement publicly available information, including
  management of external CI vendors.

Intelligence Resource Optimization

• Supports resource and systems optimization efforts to ensure effective use of CI
  resources across therapy areas, regions, and cross-functional teams.
• Contributes to the evolution, integration, and optimization of CI and AI tools,
  platforms, and systems to improve the efficiency, quality, and impact of Competitive
  Intelligence outputs.

BA or BS is required; Advanced degree is preferred.

• Minimum of 7 years of relevant business experience, including at least 5 years
  in competitive intelligence, 2 years in advanced analytics, and 3+ years in
  secondary market research.
• Pharmaceutical and/or biotechnology industry experience required;
  experience within a global manufacturing organization preferred.
• Some travel required.
• Strong analytical capabilities, with demonstrated ability to apply Competitive
  Intelligence methodologies and related analytical approaches.
• Proven research skills, including the ability to interpret, validate, and
  appropriately leverage insights from multiple sources.
• Ability to apply sound analytical techniques, use reliable information sources,
  and implement appropriate validation methods; advanced analytics
  experience is a plus.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to advise on long-range planning and
  contribute to future business strategies.
• Demonstrated experience working across multidisciplinary and cross-
  functional teams.
• Experience with process design, systems management, and database
  management.
• Experience managing budgets and external Competitive Intelligence vendors.

About CSL Behring

CSL Behring is a global biotherapeutics leader driven by our promise to save lives. Focused on serving patients’ needs by using the latest technologies, we discover, develop and deliver innovative therapies for people living with conditions in the immunology, hematology, cardiovascular and metabolic, respiratory, and transplant therapeutic areas. We use three strategic scientific platforms of plasma fractionation, recombinant protein technology, and cell and gene therapy to support continued innovation and continually refine ways in which products can address unmet medical needs and help patients lead full lives.

CSL Behring operates one of the world’s largest plasma collection networks, CSL Plasma. Our parent company, CSL, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, employs 32,000 people, and delivers its lifesaving therapies to people in more than 100 countries.

To learn more about CSL, CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor visit https://www.csl.com/ and CSL Plasma at https://www.cslplasma.com/.

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