Associate Director, Market Access Analytics

Alkermes; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits package

Hybrid work environment

Performance pay bonus

Job summary

Alkermes is seeking an Associate Director, Market Access Analytics to collaborate with various teams and develop critical analytics for LUMRYZ. The ideal candidate will have 5-7 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, with a strong background in analytics and a Bachelor’s degree. This role operates in a hybrid schedule, requiring office work in Waltham, MA. The salary ranges from $160,000 to $185,000, plus an annual performance bonus.

Join Alkermes and apply your expertise in a dynamic environment assisting in the management of complex health issues.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years in pharmaceutical or biotech industry.
• Experience with pharmaceutical data assets and large datasets.
• Proven experience delivering analytics solutions.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders for analytics solutions.
• Develop dashboards providing actionable insights.
• Support pricing and contract negotiations.

Skills

Quantitative abilities

Analytical skills

Communication skills

SQL programming

Excel

Tableau

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business or science

Master’s degree

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Tableau

SQL databases

Job description

Job Description

Overview

The Associate Director, Market Access Analytics, is responsible for collaborating, partnering, and developing analytics to support LUMRYZ and the Rare Disease – Sleep Medicine Business Unit at Alkermes. This position will be a key business partner to the Patient Services, Distribution, and Reimbursement Team and collaborate closely with Market Access, Commercial Finance, Commercial Data Management, Commercial IT, and Field Operations. The position will work with leaders across the commercial organization to align priorities, manage projects, and deliver high quality analytics. The position will report to the Senior Director, Market Access Analytics and will work a weekly hybrid office schedule.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate and partner with key business stakeholders
  • Identify key business questions and gain agreement on data, reports, and analyses to address these questions
  • Manage and complete special projects and ad hoc analytic requests, including preparation and presentation of analyses, and providing actionable insights and recommendations based on findings
  • Provide ongoing, high-level strategic consulting to all internal stakeholders to ensure maximum leverage of insights
• Primary analytic partner and support for Patient Services, Distribution, and Reimbursement Team
• Work in collaboration with other commercial groups to provide support for operations related to LUMRYZ HUB activities
• Develop and maintain new and existing dashboards providing actionable insights related to treatment providers, pilot programs, HUB activities, co-pay card utilization, and Patient Access Services
• Support ongoing initiatives to increase fulfillment by providing detailed analyses related to pharmacy performance, opportunity, and tracking
• Manage data, KPIs, and platform for Field Reimbursement Managers
• Support pull-through initiatives, targeting exercises, and opportunity assessments for GPO and pharmacy accounts
• Assist Pricing and Contracts and Market Access Strategy & Marketing with deal assessment support
• Develop and implement QC processes to ensure accuracy of analytics and reporting
• Provide Market Access content for quarterly briefing book
• Develop and manage analysts to meet needs of the growing commercial organization
• Support Market Access related launch activities for alixorexton

Qualifications

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in business, science or quantitative disciplines such as mathematics or statistics required. Master’s degree preferred.
• Proven experience delivering analytics solutions to pharmaceutical or biotech organizations that address key business needs for promoted products
• Minimum of 5-7 years in pharmaceutical industry
• Experience with pharmaceutical data assets (including claims data) offered by external vendors (IQVIA, Symphony Health, DRG, Komodo, etc) and data generated by internal systems (Veeva)
• Experience with specialty markets or rare diseases preferred.
• Experience required working with large datasets and using relational databases. Previous experience or understanding of SQL programming is required
• Exceptional computer skills including fluency with Excel, PowerPoint and Tableau are a plus

Abilities

• Strong quantitative abilities and problem-solving skills
• Highly analytical, always looking for new ways to examine data
• Strong attention to detail and process follow-through
• Able to work both independently and cross-functionally
• Ability to develop collaborative working relationships with key customers and Commercial Leadership; ability to understand business requirements, propose solutions, gain alignment, and execute
• Strong communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written, including ability to synthesize information for and make recommendations to key customers and Commercial Leadership

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $160,000 to $185,000. In addition, this position is eligible for an annual performance pay bonus. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, training, knowledge, and experience. Alkermes offers a competitive benefits package. Additional details can be found on our careers website: www.alkermes.com/careers#working-here

Alkermes has recently adopted a hybrid working environment to support and meet the needs of employees and this role will operate in a flexible environment with 60% of time in the office and 40% from home. This position is eligible for the hybrid workplace model, requiring work to be completed onsite at our Waltham, MA office at least 3 days per week. This role is not eligible for fully remote work.

About Us

Why join Team Alkermes?

Alkermes applies its decades of deep neuroscience expertise to develop medicines designed to help people living with complex and difficult-to-treat psychiatric and neurological disorders. A global biopharmaceutical company, headquartered in Ireland with U.S. locations in Massachusetts and Ohio, we seek to make a meaningful difference in the way people manage their diseases. We have a portfolio of proprietary commercial products for the treatment of alcohol dependence, opioid dependence, schizophrenia, bipolar I disorder and narcolepsy, and a pipeline of clinical and preclinical candidates in development for various psychiatric and neurological disorders.

We are proud to have been recognized as an employer of choice by many national organizations. In 2024 and 2025, we were certified as a Great Place to Work in the U.S. and named one of Massachusetts’ Top Places to Work by the Boston Globe, a Best Place to Work in Greater Cincinnati by the Cincinnati Business Courier and recognized as a Best Place to Work in BioPharma by Fortune Magazine.

Alkermes, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any qualified applicant or employee because of race, creed, color, age, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender expression and identity, disability, genetic information, veteran status, military status, application for military service or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal law. Alkermes also complies with all work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA. Alkermes is an E-Verify employer.