Senior Director, Competitive Intelligence – Onsite San Diego

Neurocrine Biosciences; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 340,000; Full time

Job summary

Neurocrine Biosciences seeks a Senior Director, Competitive Intelligence to lead enterprise CI across marketed products, development-stage assets, research programs and external innovation activities. You will translate complex scientific, clinical, regulatory, commercial and competitive information into clear insights that inform strategy and portfolio decisions.

You will build an AI-native CI capability, develop executive-level competitive updates, and partner with Strategy, BD, R&D,

Responsibilities

• Owns and leads Neurocrine's enterprise competitive intelligence strategy across marketed products, development-stage assets, research programs and emerging areas of strategic interest
• Develops deep competitive landscapes across Neurocrine's therapeutic areas, integrating scientific, clinical, regulatory, commercial, market access and financial perspectives
• Identifies emerging competitors, mechanisms, technologies and market developments before they become consensus, and assess their potential implications for Neurocrine
• Serves as a trusted thought partner to Corporate Strategy, Business Development, R&D, Commercial, Medical Affairs and executive leadership
• Translates complex competitive information into clear strategic implications and recommendations, rather than simply reporting developments
• Develops competitor and asset-level scenarios, including likely clinical-development strategies, regulatory paths, launch timing, positioning, commercial potential and potential competitor responses
• Leads competitive assessments around major catalysts, including clinical readouts, regulatory decisions, medical congresses, product launches, earnings calls and business development transactions
• Develops and maintains competitive landscapes, company profiles, pipeline databases, catalyst calendars and other decision-support tools across the portfolio
• Partners with Business Development and Corporate Strategy on external innovation, transaction evaluations, market landscapes and strategic opportunity assessments
• Partners with R&D teams to understand emerging biology, modalities and development strategies and identify competitive implications early in the research and development lifecycle
• Partners with Commercial and Medical teams to understand evolving standards of care, physician behavior, market dynamics and competitor positioning
• Designs and leads competitive simulations and war-gaming exercises around important clinical, regulatory and commercial events
• Builds an effective system for rapidly communicating material competitive developments to leadership while avoiding information overload
• Builds an AI-native competitive intelligence capability across Neurocrine's entire portfolio, using tools to increase the breadth, speed and depth of competitive analysis
• Uses large language models and other AI-enabled research and analytical tools to synthesize scientific literature, clinical-trial information, regulatory documents, patents, company disclosures, medical-congress data, market research and other structured and unstructured information
• Develops workflows and agents for continuous competitive monitoring, catalyst tracking, landscape development, signal detection and synthesis of large information sets
• Uses AI to connect information across therapeutic areas and datasets, identify weak signals and emerging patterns, generate and pressure-test hypotheses, and surface competitive developments that traditional CI approaches may miss
• Evaluates and implements new AI tools and data sources that materially improve Neurocrine's competitive intelligence capabilities
• Partners with Digital/IT, Legal, Compliance and other stakeholders to ensure appropriate and responsible use of AI and external information
• Builds strong relationships across functions and therapeutic areas and create an enterprise network for sharing competitive intelligence
• Influences decisions without direct authority and effectively challenge assumptions at senior levels of the organization
• Manages external CI vendors and consultants while building sufficient internal capability that Neurocrine retains institutional knowledge and strategic judgment
• Recruits, develops and mentors CI talent as the function grows
• Establishes standards and best practices for competitive intelligence across the organization
• Develops executive-level competitive updates, portfolio reviews, governance materials and Board presentations as needed
• Other duties as assigned

Job description

Neurocrine Biosciences seeks a Senior Director, Competitive Intelligence to lead enterprise CI across marketed products, development-stage assets, research programs and external innovation activities. You will translate complex scientific, clinical, regulatory, commercial and competitive information into clear insights that inform strategy and portfolio decisions.

You will build an AI-native CI capability, develop executive-level competitive updates, and partner with Strategy, BD, R&D,