Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. is hiring a Market Research & Analytics Senior Manager to lead primary market research across its commercial portfolio. The role designs and executes research, analyzes and reports findings, oversees vendors, and partners with commercial teams to support business insights and decision-making.
Responsibilities
- Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to clarify business questions, identify evidence gaps, and define focused research objectives
- Lead quantitative and qualitative research across healthcare professional, patient, payer, caregiver, and relevant office staff audiences
- Develop questionnaires, discussion guides, sampling plans, and measurement frameworks; recommend methodologies and analytical approaches based on business needs, timing, and resources
- Oversee programming testing, fieldwork, and quality assurance, resolving issues with vendors and internal stakeholders to maintain quality and timelines
- Analyze primary quantitative research and develop clear, executive-ready reports and presentations for tracking studies
- Direct external vendors conducting analyses and developing reports, ensuring deliverables are methodologically sound, fact-based, and aligned with study objectives
- Collaborate with Commercial Analytics to integrate research findings into broader business insights and decision-making
- Manage concurrent research initiatives across brands, therapeutic areas, and business functions, including project plans, timelines, budgets, and milestones
- Set clear vendor expectations, monitor performance, and provide actionable feedback to strengthen agency partnerships
- Serve as the day-to-day market research partner to Commercial Analytics, Marketing, Forecasting, and Market Access, translating stakeholder needs into effective research solutions
- Communicate findings and methodological considerations to cross-functional teams and leadership
- Support brand and launch planning, lifecycle management, forecasting, and strategic decision-making through evidence generation and guidance on research best practices
- Advance market research processes, methodologies, analytics, reporting standards, and knowledge management by applying best practices and evaluating emerging capabilities and data sources
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in market research, statistics, psychology, public health, life sciences, or related disciplines
- Minimum 6 years of relevant experience in biotech or pharmaceutical industry with Bachelor's Degree
- Expertise in qualitative and quantitative primary research design, methodology, analysis, and reporting across healthcare stakeholder audiences
- Demonstrated success managing research agencies, vendors, project timelines, budgets, and multiple complex initiatives
- Strong cross-functional collaboration and written, verbal, presentation, and data-visualization skills, including executive-ready PowerPoint reporting
- Proficiency executing market research data analysis using tools such as SPSS or SAS
- Excellent written and oral communication skills required
- Advanced degree (MBA, MPH, MS, or PhD)
- Experience supporting commercial pharmaceutical brands across therapeutic areas and lifecycle stages
- Experience with programming or automation tools such as Python, SQL, or Sawtooth
- Familiarity integrating primary research and secondary data to support evidence-based commercial decisions
Benefits
- Short incentive plan participation
- Eligibility for the 401(k) plan
- Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurances
- Leaves provided in line with your work state
- Flexible paid time off
- 11 paid holidays
- Additional time off for a shut-down period during the last week of December
- 80 hours of paid sick time upon hire and each year thereafter
- Primarily remote role with periodic on-site meetings in office
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