Director, BI & Insights — Rare Disease Commercialization

Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Cambridge (MA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in Cambridge, MA seeks a Director of Business Intelligence (BI) to drive market insights for EMPAVELI in PNH. You will partner with US commercial and cross-functional teams to translate sales data and market research into actionable strategies.

The role requires extensive analytics experience in biotech, rare diseases, and hands-on modeling in Excel with Power BI. Hybrid work and strong leadership are essential.

Qualifications

• Requires 10+ years in insights and analytics in biotech or biopharma.
• Hands-on analytics and modeling skills in Excel; Power BI familiarity.
• Experience in rare diseases.
• Expertise with claims, EMR, and registry data.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and leadership, ability to influence senior leaders.
• Excellent communication and storytelling of insights.

Responsibilities

• Own brand performance/sales analytics/reporting, including national and subnational analyses.
• Partner with the brand lead and cross-functional stakeholders to design and execute strategic primary market research.
• BI lead for strategic brand initiatives (e.g., brand planning, tactical planning) with market outlooks and SWOT analyses.
• Develop expert knowledge across the therapeutic area including competitive landscape and market dynamics.
• Partner with Forecasting and maintain understanding of the forecast to inform the brand forecast.
• Proactively scope key business questions, generate hypotheses, design studies/analyses, and generate insights.
• Own the annual insights budget for EMPAVELI in PNH.

Skills

Brand analytics

Sales analytics

Market research

Excel

Power BI

Forecasting

Cross-functional leadership

Vendor management

Data storytelling

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA/PhD/PharmD preferred

Tools

Power BI

Excel

Job description

Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in Cambridge, MA seeks a Director of Business Intelligence (BI) to drive market insights for EMPAVELI in PNH. You will partner with US commercial and cross-functional teams to translate sales data and market research into actionable strategies.

The role requires extensive analytics experience in biotech, rare diseases, and hands-on modeling in Excel with Power BI. Hybrid work and strong leadership are essential.