Associate Director, Commercial Analytics

Veratherapeuticsinc; United States; Remote; USD 145,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Insurance

401k match

Flexible PTO

Paid holidays

Job summary

Vera Therapeutics seeks an Associate Director, Commercial Analytics to lead promotional effectiveness analytics for TRUTAKNA, building models and delivering insights to commercial leadership. This hands-on IC role partners with Marketing, Sales, Operations, Finance, and Launch Excellence within a lean team. Remote within the U.S.

with travel to Brisbane, CA HQ as needed. The role emphasizes AI-enabled analytics, model-building, and cross-functional collaboration to optimize promotional spend and

Qualifications

• Experience building promotional analytics models and ROI analyses.
• Strong skills in statistical and predictive modeling.
• Experience with CRM and field data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Drive promotional effectiveness analytics for TRUTAKNA and inform optimal investment mix across channels and segments.
• Support development and maintenance of patient-based demand forecasts and related models.
• Build reusable analytics assets and partner across departments to align analytics with business needs.
• Apply AI-enabled analytics to accelerate reporting and synthesize unstructured inputs.
• Deliver executive-readouts and translate questions into clear analytical plans.

Skills

Statistical modeling

Predictive analytics

Cross-functional collaboration

AI & Generative AI

Data analysis

Forecasting

Job description

Vera Therapeutics is a commercial-stage biotechnology company focused on the pursuit of truth in science to transform medicine in autoimmune disease, starting with the kidney. Vera Therapeutics’ flagship commercial product is TRUTAKNATM (atacicept-vymj), a B-cell activating factor (BAFF) and A proliferation-inducing ligand(APRIL) inhibitor. Vera Therapeutics is evaluating multiple diseases where the reduction of autoantibodies through inhibition of BAFF and APRIL may prove clinically meaningful. Vera Therapeutics was founded in 2016 and is based in Brisbane, California. To learn more, visit www.veratx.com.

At Vera, our values are the cornerstone of our culture and guide how we work together every day. We lead with empathy, act with an owner’s mindset, demand clarity, work without fences, and execute with urgency because patients are counting on us. From how we hire and develop our people to how we advance rigorous science, we are building a team committed to transforming medicine in autoimmune diseases, starting with the kidney.

Position Summary:

The Associate Director, Commercial Analytics drives promotional effectiveness analytics for TRUTAKNA — measuring whether Vera’s promotional investment is working and shaping where it goes next. Reporting to the Senior Director, Commercial Forecasting and Advanced Analytics, the role also carries opportunities to flex into support for commercial forecasting as business needs and the individual’s interests align.

This is a hands-on, high-visibility individual contributor role in a lean commercial team. The person in this seat builds the models, forms a view on what they mean, and brings that thinking to commercial leadership. Partners include Business Operations, Marketing, Market Access, Sales, Patient Services, Launch Excellence, Finance, and Supply.

Responsibilities:

Promotional Effectiveness

• Drive promotional effectiveness analytics for TRUTAKNA and inform the optimal level and mix of promotional investment across channels, audiences, and customer segments.
• Build and interpret promotional response models, program ROI analyses, and channel and campaign measurement; develop marketing mix and promotional sequence optimization capability as promotional history accumulates.
• Estimate the sales impact of personal and non-personal channels using statistical and predictive modeling, and design test-and-learn approaches where historical data is thin.
• Ground segmentation, targeting, and customer prioritization in promotional responsiveness rather than volume alone, refreshing as diagnostic patterns and account discovery evolve.
• Support field sizing and deployment, territory alignment, goal setting, and incentive compensation design with promotional responsiveness and workload analysis.
• Analyze field activity and territory performance, pairing quantitative KPIs with qualitative field insight to explain what is actually driving results.

Forecasting Support

• Support development and maintenance of patient-based demand forecasts, including patient funnel and patient flow models spanning identification, diagnosis, referral, initiation, and persistence.
• Pressure-test forecast assumptions using analog launch benchmarks, real-world data, and primary market research, and help refine them against actuals as the launch matures.
• Provide the analytics that reconcile demand signals with financial forecasts and supply planning inputs, helping explain variances and assumption changes to Finance and Supply Chain partners.

Analytics Foundation

• Draw on internal business data — CRM and field activity, patient services and HUB enrollment, market access and specialty pharmacy feeds, and sales data — to build a coherent analytical view of the business.
• Partner with Business Operations and IT on analytical requirements for the commercial data environment.
• Build reusable, well-documented analytics assets in place of one-off analyses.

AI-Enabled Analytics

• Apply AI and generative AI tools to accelerate analysis, automate recurring reporting, and synthesize unstructured inputs such as field insights, congress content, etc..
• Evaluate AI-enabled analytics capabilities and vendor solutions with a practical view of where they add value and where they do not.
• Help set standards for responsible use, including validation of AI-generated output, data privacy, and compliance guardrails.

Partnership and Communication

• Contribute analysis and interpretation into launch reporting and the sales quarterly business review.
• Serve as an analytics partner to Business Operations, Marketing, Market Access, Sales, Patient Services, and Launch Excellence, translating ambiguous business questions into clear analytical plans.
• Deliver executive-level readouts that lead with the decision at hand, carry appropriate caveats, and land with non-technical audiences.
• Balance and sequence competing priorities across stakeholders, negotiating scope and timing transparently.
• Partner with Legal and Compliance to ensure analytics practices meet healthcare regulatory, privacy, and data-use standards.

This role is remote within the United States. Periodic travel is expected for team meetings, national and regional sales meetings, and onsite collaboration weeks at the Brisbane, CA headquarters, approximately 25% of time.

Vera Therapeutics Inc. is an equal-opportunity employer.

Vera Therapeutics is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices and we strive to provide employees with total compensation packages that are market competitive. The exact base pay offered for this role will depend on various factors, including but not limited to the candidate’s geography, qualifications, skills, and experience.

For this role, the anticipated base pay range is

$145,000 — $210,000 USD

• annual performance incentive bonus, new hire equity, and ongoing performance-based equity.
• medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401k match, flexible time off, and a number of paid holidays.