Strategic Insights Lead

Abivax; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Abivax, a global clinical-stage biotechnology company headquartered in Paris with offices in the United States, is seeking a Strategic Insights Lead to shape commercial strategy for its immunology portfolio.

You will design and execute primary market research, build a comprehensive competitive intelligence program, and translate insights into strategic recommendations for senior leadership across marketing, forecasting, and medical affairs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Healthcare, marketing, or related field.
• 5+ years in pharma/biotech/market research/competitive intelligence or related functions.
• Experience leading primary market research projects from design through results.
• Experience supporting commercial strategy, launch planning, or brand planning in pharma/biotech.
• Strong understanding of healthcare market dynamics and pharma commercialization.

Responsibilities

• Lead qualitative and quantitative market research studies across HCPs, patients, payers, and stakeholders.
• Design objectives, surveys, and analytical frameworks to address business questions.
• Manage external market research vendors and ensure timely, high-quality insights.
• Synthesize findings into actionable recommendations for strategy and decision-making.
• Build and maintain a competitive intelligence program across assets and pipelines.
• Monitor competitor activities, develop competitor profiles and scenario analyses.
• Lead congress intelligence planning, onsite coverage, and post-congress readouts.
• Generate regular CI reports, alerts, and executive briefings.
• Partner with CI agencies to ensure high-quality insights and prompt intelligence.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align insights with business needs.
• Manage insight-generation budgets and vendor relationships.
• Develop standard methodologies and best practices for market research and CI.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Executive presence

Collaboration

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences or related

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel

Insight storytelling

Job description

At Abivax, our purpose is simple: to improve patients' lives. As a global clinical-stage biotechnology company with headquarter in Paris and offices in the United States, we are advancing innovative therapies for people living with chronic inflammatory diseases. We are looking for talented, purpose-driven individuals who want their work to have a meaningful impact. Every day, we challenge ourselves to ask: \"How did I make a patient's life better today?\" If that question inspires and motivates you, we invite you to join our team.

The Strategic Insights Lead (Primary Market Research & Competitive Intelligence) will play a critical role in generating actionable insights that inform commercial strategy, launch planning, and lifecycle management for Abivax's immunology portfolio. This individual will lead the design and execution of primary market research programs, establish and manage the company's competitive intelligence capability, and translate complex market dynamics into strategic recommendations for senior leadership. Working closely with Marketing, Market Access, Patient Services, Medical Affairs, Clinical Development, Business Development, Finance, and Analytics/Forecasting partners, the Insights lead will serve as a key source of customer (HCP, patient, payer), market, and competitor insights. This role is highly visible and will help shape critical decisions across development, pre-launch, launch, and growth-stage activities.

Key Responsibilities / Essential Functions

Primary Market Research Leadership

• Lead the development and execution of qualitative and quantitative market research studies across HCPs, patients, caregivers, payers, and other stakeholders. Makes recommendations to optimize research approach to obtain key insights, ensuring strategic focus and prioritization.
• Design research objectives, methodologies, discussion guides, surveys, and analytical frameworks to address key business questions.
• Manage external market research vendors and ensure high-quality, timely delivery of insights.
• Synthesize research findings into compelling recommendations that influence strategy and decision-making.
• Build and maintain a comprehensive competitive intelligence program across marketed and pipeline assets within immunology.
• Monitor competitor clinical, regulatory, commercial, and business development activities.
• Develop competitor profiles, strategic assessments, and scenario planning analyses.
• Lead congress intelligence planning, onsite coverage, and post-congress readouts.
• Generate regular competitive intelligence reports, alerts, and executive briefings.
• Partner with and manage key CI agency relationships to ensure the highest level of insights and prompt intelligence.

Strategic Commercial Insights

• Partner with brand, market access, medical, patient services, and forecasting teams to identify and prioritize insight needs.
• Support brand planning, positioning, messaging, segmentation, targeting, and launch readiness initiatives.
• Assess evolving market trends, customer needs, treatment paradigms, and competitive threats.
• Develop integrated insight narratives by combining primary research, secondary analytics, and competitive intelligence.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Serve as a trusted strategic partner to Commercial, Medical Affairs, Clinical Development, Regulatory, and Corporate Strategy teams.
• Support executive leadership reviews, long-range planning, and portfolio strategy discussions.
• Collaborate with Forecasting and Analytics colleagues to improve commercial assumptions and business scenarios.
• Ensure alignment of insights across internal stakeholders and global teams.

Congress and External Intelligence Monitoring

• Lead intelligence collection and insight generation for key scientific and commercial congresses.
• Monitor emerging scientific data, treatment guidelines, KOL perspectives, and competitor activities.
• Develop congress planning tools and actionable post-meeting recommendations.
• Coordinate intelligence sharing across functional teams.

Operational Excellence

• Manage insight-generation budgets and vendor relationships effectively.
• Develop and maintain standard methodologies, templates, and best practices for market research and competitive intelligence.
• Ensure all activities comply with applicable legal, regulatory, and compliance requirements.
• Identify opportunities to leverage innovative research methodologies, AI-enabled tools, and emerging insight-generation capabilities

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Healthcare, marketing, or related field.
• Minimum 5+ years of experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare consulting, market research, strategic insights, competitive intelligence, or related functions.
• Demonstrated experience leading primary market research projects from design through execution and communication of results.
• Experience supporting commercial strategy, launch planning, or brand planning activities within the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry.
• Strong understanding of healthcare market dynamics, customer research methodologies, and pharmaceutical commercialization.

Preferred

• Experience within immunology, gastroenterology, inflammatory diseases, or specialty therapeutics.
• Experience supporting pre-launch or launch-stage assets.
• Competitive intelligence experience including congress coverage and pipeline monitoring.
• Vendor management experience across multiple research and intelligence providers.
• Familiarity with forecasting, market access, or commercial analytics applications of market research.

Technical Skills

• Expertise in qualitative and quantitative market research methodologies.
• Strong competitive intelligence and market monitoring capabilities.
• Experience with survey design, discussion guide development, and insight synthesis.
• Familiarity with pharmaceutical secondary data sources and intelligence platforms.
• Strong proficiency in PowerPoint, Excel, and insight storytelling.
• Experience managing external vendors and research budgets.

Core Competencies

• Strategic thinker with strong business acumen.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong executive presence and communication abilities.
• Ability to influence without authority across complex cross-functional environments.
• Highly organized with strong project management skills.
• Intellectual curiosity and proactive learning mindset.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving biotech environment.
• Strong collaboration and relationship-building capabilities.
• Results-oriented with a focus on delivering actionable insights.
• Commitment to integrity, compliance, and patient-centric decision making.

This job description is intended to describe the general responsibilities and qualifications for this position and is not an exhaustive list of all duties. Responsibilities may change based on business needs, and Abivax reserves the right to modify this job description at any time. Reasonable accommodation will be provided to qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to perform the essential functions of the position. Abivax is an Equal Opportunity Employer and makes all employment decisions without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.