Senior Commercial Analytics Lead - Biotech

Vera Therapeutics, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 145,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Equity

Medical, dental, vision

401k match

Flexible time off

Paid holidays

Job summary

Vera Therapeutics, Inc. is seeking an Associate Director of Commercial Analytics to lead promotional effectiveness and forecasting analytics for TRUTAKNA. This role is a hands-on, high-visibility contributor collaborating with Marketing, Sales, Market Access, and Finance.

Expect extensive data work, AI-enabled insights, and executive-ready storytelling. The role emphasizes building scalable analytics assets, partnering across departments, and guiding launch analytics from data to decisions while

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in quantitative, scientific, or business field preferred; BA with depth considered.
• 5+ years of commercial analytics or related experience on biotech/pharma teams.
• Ownership of promotional effectiveness work, including ROI analyses; exposure to marketing mix modeling a plus.
• Experience supporting patient-based demand forecasting and funnel or patient flow models.
• Hands-on with real-world data assets (anonymized patient data, claims, HUB data, etc.).
• Experience working with CRM and field activity data, market access data.
• Advanced Excel; proficiency with BI/visualization tools (Power BI/Tableau); Python/SQL/R a plus.
• Practical proficiency with AI tools in biotech commercial work with tangible outputs.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with executive audiences.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities across stakeholders with limited direction.

Responsibilities

• Drive promotional effectiveness analytics for TRUTAKNA, optimizing investment across channels and segments.
• Build and interpret promotional response models, ROI analyses, and channel/campaign measurements.
• Estimate sales impact of personal and non-personal channels using statistical/predictive modeling.
• Ground segmentation and targeting based on promotional responsiveness; adjust as patterns evolve.
• Support field sizing, territory alignment, goals, and incentive design with workload analyses.
• Analyze field activity and territory performance linking KPIs with field insights.
• Support development of patient-based demand forecasts and funnel/patients flow models.
• Pressure-test forecast assumptions using analog launches, real-world data, and market research.
• Provide analytics reconciling demand signals with financial forecasts and supply inputs.
• Draw on CRM, field activity, HUB enrollment, market access, and sales data to form a coherent analytics view.
• Partner with IT on analytics requirements for commercial data environment.
• Build reusable, well-documented analytics assets rather than one-off analyses.
• Apply AI/generative AI to accelerate analysis and automate recurring reporting.
• Set standards for responsible AI use including validation and privacy guardrails.
• Deliver executive readouts with clear decisions and caveats to non-technical audiences.
• Balance competing priorities across stakeholders and negotiate scope/timing transparently.
• Partner with Legal/Compliance on data-use standards.

Skills

Promotional effectiveness

Forecasting

Data analysis

Advanced Excel

Power BI

Tableau

SQL

Python

AI in biotechnology

Executive communication

Project management

Education

MS/MBA/PhD or related

Bachelor's degree with depth

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

SQL

Job description

Vera Therapeutics, Inc. is seeking an Associate Director of Commercial Analytics to lead promotional effectiveness and forecasting analytics for TRUTAKNA. This role is a hands-on, high-visibility contributor collaborating with Marketing, Sales, Market Access, and Finance.

Expect extensive data work, AI-enabled insights, and executive-ready storytelling. The role emphasizes building scalable analytics assets, partnering across departments, and guiding launch analytics from data to decisions while