What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Director, Global Market Research position at Alnylam Pharmaceuticals?
Overview
Alnylam is seeking a Senior Director to lead Global Market Research across the portfolio. This leader will define the vision for market insights, shape the research agenda, and elevate how insights inform strategy and decisions across brands and development stages. The role is accountable for building a high-performing research team, advancing patient and customer understanding, and developing scalable enterprise research standards and capabilities. The Senior Director will partner closely with Global and Regional Marketing, Competitive Intelligence, Advanced Analytics, Medical Affairs, and other key stakeholders while maintaining clear ownership of the market research perspective.
Key Responsibilities
Portfolio and Franchise Market Research Leadership
$238,000.00 - $322,000.00
The pay range reflects the full-time base salary range we expect to pay for this role at the time of posting. Base pay will be determined based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, skills, and education. This role is eligible for an annual short-term incentive award (e.g., bonus or sales incentive) and an annual long-term incentive award (e.g., equity).
Alnylam’s robust Total Rewards package is designed to support your overall health and well-being. We offer comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, a lifestyle reimbursement program, flexible spending and health savings accounts and a 401(k)with a generous company match. Eligible employees enjoy paid time off, wellness days, holidays, and two company-wide recharge breaks. We also offer generous family resources and leave. Our commitment to your well-being reflects our belief that caring for our people fuels the impact we create together.
Learn more about these and additional benefits offered by Alnylam by visiting the Benefits section of the Careers website: https://www.alnylam.com/careers
About Alnylam
We are the leader in RNAi therapeutics – a revolutionary approach with the potential to transform the lives of people with rare and common diseases. Built on Nobel Prize-winning science, Alnylam has delivered the breakthroughs that made RNAi therapeutics possible and are just at the beginning of what’s possible. Our deep pipeline, late-stage programs, and bold vision reflect our core values: fierce innovation, passion for excellence, purposeful urgency, open culture and commitment to people. We're proud to be a globally recognized top employer, where an authentic, inclusive culture and breakthrough thinking fuel one another.
At Alnylam, we commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equal employment opportunity. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their sex, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, religion, creed, physical or mental disability, pregnancy status or related conditions, genetic information, veteran or military status, marital or familial status, political affiliation, age, or any other factor protected by federal, state, or local law. Alnylam is an E-Verify Employer.
Alnylam is seeking a Senior Director to lead Global Market Research across the portfolio. This leader will define the vision for market insights, shape the research agenda, and elevate how insights inform strategy and decisions across brands and development stages. The role is accountable for building a high-performing research team, advancing patient and customer understanding, and developing scalable enterprise research standards and capabilities. The Senior Director will partner closely with Global and Regional Marketing, Competitive Intelligence, Advanced Analytics, Medical Affairs, and other key stakeholders while maintaining clear ownership of the market research perspective.
Key Responsibilities
Portfolio and Franchise Market Research Leadership
- Serve as a strategic thought partner to global and regional commercial leaders by synthesizing research into clear, actionable insights that guide priorities and decisions.
- Define and prioritize the market research agenda based on business needs, strategic decisions, and lifecycle milestones.
- Synthesize insights and provide global and regional summaries; partner with commercial teams to align on implications and the “so what” behind findings.
- Advance Alnylam’s understanding of patients and customers across disease areas, including diagnosis journeys, treatment decisions, barriers, and unmet needs.
- Apply behavioral economics, decision science, and related frameworks to explain how and why behaviors occur in complex healthcare contexts.
- Serve as a thought partner to marketing and commercialization teams to ensure patient and customer insights meaningfully shape strategy and execution.
- Champion innovative and emerging research methodologies that deliver deeper insight into human behavior and decision‑making.
- Design and oversee high‑quality qualitative and quantitative research across patients, HCPs, payers, and other stakeholders.
- Set clear standards for research design, vendor management, analysis, and interpretation across the enterprise.
- Establish and evolve enterprise-wide standards, processes, and ways of working for market research that scale across brands and geographies.
- Build a consistent, repeatable approach for planning, executing, and applying research while enabling flexibility for franchise-specific needs.
- Operate with a product mindset, continuously improving market research capabilities based on user needs, impact, and feedback.
- Build, lead, and develop a high-performing global market research team.
- Foster a culture of intellectual rigor, curiosity, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Partner effectively with Competitive Intelligence, Advanced Analytics, and other functions to integrate complementary perspectives while maintaining clear ownership of market research outputs.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, bringing clarity and confidence to complex strategic questions.
- Advanced degree in Business, Life Sciences, Economics, Psychology, or a related field.
- 10 years of experience in global market research.
- Experience within the consumer packaged goods, technology, or biopharmaceutical industires preferred.
- Experience supporting both in‑line brands and pipeline assets across multiple disease areas.
- Demonstrated application of behavioral economics, decision science, or related approaches to understanding and influencing human behavior.
- Experience building and scaling research standards, processes, and enterprise capabilities.
- Familiarity operating in a product‑oriented model, including defining capabilities, iterating based on impact, and partnering cross‑functionally.
- Proven success leading teams and operating effectively in complex, matrixed global organizations.
$238,000.00 - $322,000.00
The pay range reflects the full-time base salary range we expect to pay for this role at the time of posting. Base pay will be determined based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, skills, and education. This role is eligible for an annual short-term incentive award (e.g., bonus or sales incentive) and an annual long-term incentive award (e.g., equity).
Alnylam’s robust Total Rewards package is designed to support your overall health and well-being. We offer comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, a lifestyle reimbursement program, flexible spending and health savings accounts and a 401(k)with a generous company match. Eligible employees enjoy paid time off, wellness days, holidays, and two company-wide recharge breaks. We also offer generous family resources and leave. Our commitment to your well-being reflects our belief that caring for our people fuels the impact we create together.
Learn more about these and additional benefits offered by Alnylam by visiting the Benefits section of the Careers website: https://www.alnylam.com/careers
About Alnylam
We are the leader in RNAi therapeutics – a revolutionary approach with the potential to transform the lives of people with rare and common diseases. Built on Nobel Prize-winning science, Alnylam has delivered the breakthroughs that made RNAi therapeutics possible and are just at the beginning of what’s possible. Our deep pipeline, late-stage programs, and bold vision reflect our core values: fierce innovation, passion for excellence, purposeful urgency, open culture and commitment to people. We're proud to be a globally recognized top employer, where an authentic, inclusive culture and breakthrough thinking fuel one another.
At Alnylam, we commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equal employment opportunity. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their sex, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, religion, creed, physical or mental disability, pregnancy status or related conditions, genetic information, veteran or military status, marital or familial status, political affiliation, age, or any other factor protected by federal, state, or local law. Alnylam is an E-Verify Employer.
Salary : $238,000 - $322,000