CD&A - Competitive Intelligence Manager, R&D CI

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and present key Competitive Intelligence deliverables for multiple internal business partners, primarily R&D, Commercial, and Legal stakeholders.
• Leverage various secondary research resources to generate competitive insights including clinicaltrials.gov, TrialTrove, BioMedTracker, Cortellis Intelligence, Evaluate Pharma, Datamonitor, IPD analytics, PharmaProjects, Drugs@FDA, PubMed, AlphaSense, Factset, and USPTO patents.
• Work with R&D leads to generate Key Intelligence Topics and Key Intelligence Questions (KITs & KIQs) and conduct hypothesis driven primary and secondary competitive intelligence research.
• Synthesize insights from scientific and medical research conferences by gathering clinical and scientific data, interacting with relevant sources, and developing detailed reports to debrief internal teams.
• Understand US patent landscape for early drug development.
• Manage multiple CI vendors to conduct hypothesis driven primary CI research through interactions with Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs), Clinical trial investigators, Medical Science Liaisons, Academic and Community Physicians, Field force, Investor relations, and other relevant sources.
• Travel approximately 10% for research and stakeholder engagement.

Requirements

• Doctorate degree.
• OR Master's degree and 2 years of experience in Competitive Intelligence, Business Development, Tech Transfer, Equity Research, Consulting, or Patent Law.
• OR Bachelor's degree and 4 years of experience in Competitive Intelligence, Business Development, Tech Transfer, Equity Research, Consulting, or Patent Law.
• OR Associate's degree and 8 years of experience in Competitive Intelligence, Business Development, Tech Transfer, Equity Research, Consulting, or Patent Law.
• OR High school diploma / GED and 10 years of experience in Competitive Intelligence, Business Development, Tech Transfer, Equity Research, Consulting, or Patent Law.

Nice to Have

• Strong communicator and proven ability to generate succinct insights from complex scientific data to diverse stakeholders of various functions and levels.
• Experience with early pipeline development and assessments in roles such as BD CI, R&D CI, BD, equity research, tech transfer, patent law or similar.
• Knowledge of basic principles of functions across the pharmaceutical value chain, including drug discovery & development, clinical trials, FDA / EMA regulation, and drug commercialization.
• Proven track record managing multiple, simultaneous projects and working with proprietary technical, regulatory, and financial data sources (e.g., TrialTrove, Cortellis Intelligence, Evaluate Pharma, PubMed, AlphaSense, USPTO).
• Experience supporting insight generation by coordinating with cross-functional R&D, commercial, medical & scientific teams to develop therapeutic area strategy.
• Ability to analyze ongoing clinical trials and global regulatory considerations to develop scenarios for competitor launch timing in US, EU, Japan, China, and other key markets.
• Understanding of pharmaceutical forecasting models and ability to provide competitor-focused assumptions for market share estimation, long-range planning, and opportunity assessment.

Benefits & Perks

• A comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions.
• Group medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Flexible spending accounts.
• Discretionary annual bonus or sales-based incentive plan for field sales representatives.
• Stock-based long-term incentives.
• Award-winning time-off plans.
• Flexible work models, including remote and hybrid arrangements where possible.