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Job Description
The Executive Director, Global Commercial Analytics- Market Research will lead the global Market Research capability within Global Commercial Strategy. Reporting to the Vice President, Global Commercial Analytics, this leader will build a team of market research experts who generate deep, objective insight into patients, healthcare professionals, caregivers, markets, and other stakeholders to inform development, commercialization, launch, and lifecycle decisions.
This role requires both strategic leadership and deep research craft. The Executive Director will establish an operating model in which the internal team is intimately involved in the work: framing business questions, selecting methodologies, conducting qualitative research, designing quantitative instruments, interpreting findings, and translating evidence into clear implications. External research partners will provide reach and specialized support, but accountability for research quality, insight generation, and business application will remain with the Vertex team.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
- Lead the Global Market Research organization and capability agenda across pipeline, pre-launch, launch, lifecycle, and in-line disease areas.
- Partner with GCS disease leaders and BI&A pod leads to identify priority business questions and build integrated, decision-focused learning agendas.
- Establish a hands-on market research model in which internal team members actively shape and conduct research rather than primarily outsourcing the work to vendors.
- Build deep internal qualitative research expertise, including development of discussion guides, moderator preparation, direct observation and moderation where appropriate, debriefing, coding, synthesis, and interpretation.
- Ensure the team plays a substantive role in quantitative research design, including hypotheses, questionnaire development, sampling, choice of methods, quality review, analysis plans, and interpretation of results.
- Lead research across disease understanding, market landscapes, patient and customer journeys, segmentation, unmet need, treatment dynamics, adoption barriers, product profiles, positioning, messages, demand, and drivers of product choice.
- Ensure research incorporates the perspectives of patients, caregivers, healthcare professionals, payers, and other relevant stakeholders and reflects global, regional, and local market realities.
- Establish common standards for research design, methodological rigor, ethics and compliance, documentation, knowledge management, and reuse of insights across the portfolio.
- Synthesize qualitative and quantitative evidence into clear insights, implications, decision options, and recommendations for development, strategy, launch, and lifecycle planning.
- Integrate Market Research with Decision Science, Forecasting, Competitive Intelligence, Portfolio Analytics, Value & Access, HEOR, Medical, and regional Commercial insight generation.
- Create mechanisms to connect research over time, distinguish enduring insights from hypotheses, identify evidence gaps, and prevent fragmented or duplicative studies.
- Select and manage external research partners based on the capabilities needed, while maintaining strong internal ownership of research design, respondent experience, quality, interpretation, and application.
- Establish governance, prioritization, budget discipline, vendor strategy, and a multi-year capability roadmap for Market Research.
- Build, develop, and retain a high-performing global team with strong qualitative and quantitative research skills, business judgment, therapeutic curiosity, and executive communication capability. Measure the quality, adoption, timeliness, and decision impact of Market Research and continuously improve the operating model.
Required Education Level
- Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in market research, behavioral or social science, psychology, business, marketing, life sciences, statistics, or a related discipline. Advanced degree such as an M.A., M.S., Ph.D., MBA, or other relevant qualification preferred.
Required Experience
- Extensive leadership experience in primary market research, customer insights, or related insight-generation functions within biopharmaceuticals, healthcare, or another complex industry.
- Deep hands-on expertise in qualitative market research, including study design, discussion-guide development, interviewing or moderation, observation, synthesis, and translation of findings into business implications.
- Strong experience designing quantitative market research, including questionnaire development, sampling approaches, methodological choices, quality control, analysis plans, and interpretation.
- Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous business questions into rigorous research plans and actionable recommendations for senior commercial and development leaders.
- Experience leading research across pipeline, product development, launch, lifecycle, and in-line stages, including product-profile testing, positioning, patient journeys, demand studies, and adoption-barrier research.
- Experience generating insights from patients, caregivers, healthcare professionals, payers, and other healthcare stakeholders across multiple geographies.
- Demonstrated ability to build internal market research capability and develop teams that can lead substantive research work, not solely manage external agencies.
- Proven ability to select, direct, and challenge research vendors while maintaining internal intellectual ownership and accountability for quality and interpretation.
- Exceptional strategic thinking, listening, synthesis, storytelling, executive communication, and ability to distinguish evidence from assumption. Proven success leading and developing global teams and influencing effectively in a highly matrixed organization while maintaining high standards for privacy, compliance, and research integrity.
At Vertex, we embrace continuous learning and encourage employees to stay informed on advances in AI, technology, automation, and industry trends. We seek talent who bring an external perspective, demonstrate curiosity and sound judgment, and thoughtfully adopt new capabilities that improve decision-making, drive innovation, increase efficiency, and help deliver better outcomes for patients.
Pay Range:
$0 - $0Disclosure Statement:
The range provided is based on what we believe is a reasonable estimate for the base salary pay range for this job at the time of posting. This role is eligible for an annual bonus and annual equity awards. Some roles may also be eligible for overtime pay, in accordance with federal and state requirements. Actual base salary pay will be based on a number of factors, including skills, competencies, experience, and other job-related factors permitted by law.
At Vertex, our Total Rewards offerings also include inclusive market-leading benefits to meet our employees wherever they are in their career, financial, family and wellbeing journey while providing flexibility and resources to support their growth and aspirations. From medical, dental and vision benefits to generous paid time off (including a week-long company shutdown in the Summer and the Winter), educational assistance programs including student loan repayment, a generous commuting subsidy, matching charitable donations, 401(k) and so much more.
Company Information
Vertex is a global biotechnology company that invests in scientific innovation.
Vertex is committed to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a person's race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital status, or any characteristic protected under applicable law. Vertex is an E-Verify Employer in the United States. Vertex will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities, in accordance with applicable law.
Any applicant requiring an accommodation in connection with the hiring process and/or to perform the essential functions of the position for which the applicant has applied should make a request to the recruiter or hiring manager, or contact Talent Acquisition at ApplicationAssistance@vrtx.com
Job Description
The Executive Director, Global Commercial Analytics- Market Research will lead the global Market Research capability within Global Commercial Strategy. Reporting to the Vice President, Global Commercial Analytics, this leader will build a team of market research experts who generate deep, objective insight into patients, healthcare professionals, caregivers, markets, and other stakeholders to inform development, commercialization, launch, and lifecycle decisions.
This role requires both strategic leadership and deep research craft. The Executive Director will establish an operating model in which the internal team is intimately involved in the work: framing business questions, selecting methodologies, conducting qualitative research, designing quantitative instruments, interpreting findings, and translating evidence into clear implications. External research partners will provide reach and specialized support, but accountability for research quality, insight generation, and business application will remain with the Vertex team.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
- Lead the Global Market Research organization and capability agenda across pipeline, pre-launch, launch, lifecycle, and in-line disease areas.
- Partner with GCS disease leaders and BI&A pod leads to identify priority business questions and build integrated, decision-focused learning agendas.
- Establish a hands-on market research model in which internal team members actively shape and conduct research rather than primarily outsourcing the work to vendors.
- Build deep internal qualitative research expertise, including development of discussion guides, moderator preparation, direct observation and moderation where appropriate, debriefing, coding, synthesis, and interpretation.
- Ensure the team plays a substantive role in quantitative research design, including hypotheses, questionnaire development, sampling, choice of methods, quality review, analysis plans, and interpretation of results.
- Lead research across disease understanding, market landscapes, patient and customer journeys, segmentation, unmet need, treatment dynamics, adoption barriers, product profiles, positioning, messages, demand, and drivers of product choice.
- Ensure research incorporates the perspectives of patients, caregivers, healthcare professionals, payers, and other relevant stakeholders and reflects global, regional, and local market realities.
- Establish common standards for research design, methodological rigor, ethics and compliance, documentation, knowledge management, and reuse of insights across the portfolio.
- Synthesize qualitative and quantitative evidence into clear insights, implications, decision options, and recommendations for development, strategy, launch, and lifecycle planning.
- Integrate Market Research with Decision Science, Forecasting, Competitive Intelligence, Portfolio Analytics, Value & Access, HEOR, Medical, and regional Commercial insight generation.
- Create mechanisms to connect research over time, distinguish enduring insights from hypotheses, identify evidence gaps, and prevent fragmented or duplicative studies.
- Select and manage external research partners based on the capabilities needed, while maintaining strong internal ownership of research design, respondent experience, quality, interpretation, and application.
- Establish governance, prioritization, budget discipline, vendor strategy, and a multi-year capability roadmap for Market Research.
- Build, develop, and retain a high-performing global team with strong qualitative and quantitative research skills, business judgment, therapeutic curiosity, and executive communication capability. Measure the quality, adoption, timeliness, and decision impact of Market Research and continuously improve the operating model.
Required Education Level
- Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in market research, behavioral or social science, psychology, business, marketing, life sciences, statistics, or a related discipline. Advanced degree such as an M.A., M.S., Ph.D., MBA, or other relevant qualification preferred.
Required Experience
- Extensive leadership experience in primary market research, customer insights, or related insight-generation functions within biopharmaceuticals, healthcare, or another complex industry.
- Deep hands-on expertise in qualitative market research, including study design, discussion-guide development, interviewing or moderation, observation, synthesis, and translation of findings into business implications.
- Strong experience designing quantitative market research, including questionnaire development, sampling approaches, methodological choices, quality control, analysis plans, and interpretation.
- Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous business questions into rigorous research plans and actionable recommendations for senior commercial and development leaders.
- Experience leading research across pipeline, product development, launch, lifecycle, and in-line stages, including product-profile testing, positioning, patient journeys, demand studies, and adoption-barrier research.
- Experience generating insights from patients, caregivers, healthcare professionals, payers, and other healthcare stakeholders across multiple geographies.
- Demonstrated ability to build internal market research capability and develop teams that can lead substantive research work, not solely manage external agencies.
- Proven ability to select, direct, and challenge research vendors while maintaining internal intellectual ownership and accountability for quality and interpretation.
- Exceptional strategic thinking, listening, synthesis, storytelling, executive communication, and ability to distinguish evidence from assumption. Proven success leading and developing global teams and influencing effectively in a highly matrixed organization while maintaining high standards for privacy, compliance, and research integrity.
At Vertex, we embrace continuous learning and encourage employees to stay informed on advances in AI, technology, automation, and industry trends. We seek talent who bring an external perspective, demonstrate curiosity and sound judgment, and thoughtfully adopt new capabilities that improve decision-making, drive innovation, increase efficiency, and help deliver better outcomes for patients.
Pay Range:
$0 - $0Disclosure Statement:
The range provided is based on what we believe is a reasonable estimate for the base salary pay range for this job at the time of posting. This role is eligible for an annual bonus and annual equity awards. Some roles may also be eligible for overtime pay, in accordance with federal and state requirements. Actual base salary pay will be based on a number of factors, including skills, competencies, experience, and other job-related factors permitted by law.
At Vertex, our Total Rewards offerings also include inclusive market-leading benefits to meet our employees wherever they are in their career, financial, family and wellbeing journey while providing flexibility and resources to support their growth and aspirations. From medical, dental and vision benefits to generous paid time off (including a week-long company shutdown in the Summer and the Winter), educational assistance programs including student loan repayment, a generous commuting subsidy, matching charitable donations, 401(k) and so much more.
Company Information
Vertex is a global biotechnology company that invests in scientific innovation.
Vertex is committed to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a person's race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital status, or any characteristic protected under applicable law. Vertex is an E-Verify Employer in the United States. Vertex will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities, in accordance with applicable law.
Any applicant requiring an accommodation in connection with the hiring process and/or to perform the essential functions of the position for which the applicant has applied should make a request to the recruiter or hiring manager, or contact Talent Acquisition at ApplicationAssistance@vrtx.com
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Banking & Financial Services
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in market research executive jobs.
- Five or more years of primary and secondary market research experience
- Proficiency with survey platforms and quantitative analysis tools such as SPSS or similar
- Experience designing and executing qualitative research including focus groups and in-depth interviews
- Bachelor's degree in marketing, social sciences, statistics, or a related field
- Demonstrated ability to translate research findings into actionable business recommendations
- Familiarity with syndicated data sources and competitive intelligence frameworks
Tips for Your Market Research Executive Job Search
Tailor your resume to methodology
Hiring managers for market research executive roles want to see specific methods you've led, whether conjoint analysis, focus groups, or segmentation studies. Name the methodology, the sample size, and the business decision it informed. Generic research experience gets screened out fast.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists market research executive openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Highlight cross-functional influence in your resume
Market research executives are judged on whether their insights actually changed decisions. Call out moments when your research shifted a product roadmap, repositioned a brand, or killed a bad launch. That evidence of influence separates you from candidates who only describe data collection.
Target postings by research type, not just title
Job titles vary wildly in this field. Search for 'consumer insights executive,' 'research strategy manager,' and 'insights director' alongside the standard title. Many of the strongest roles use alternative names and get missed by narrow keyword searches.
Prepare a research-to-decision case study
Interviewers for executive-level research roles almost always ask you to walk through a past project end to end. Prepare one tight case study that shows the business question, your methodology choice and why, the finding, and the action taken. Practice delivering it in under four minutes.
Negotiate scope before you negotiate salary
Before accepting any market research executive offer, clarify whether you own the full research agenda or inherit a locked vendor roster and fixed methodologies. Scope constraints affect your ability to do the job well and your leverage to negotiate compensation tied to impact.
Market Research Executive Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most market research executives?
The most active employers for market research executives right now are Stripe, Headway (NY), and Oscar Health, and the most openings are in New York, Massachusetts, and California, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Consumer goods, healthcare, and financial services firms tend to post the highest volume of executive-level research roles.
How many market research executive jobs are remote?
About 100% of market research executive openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the desk-based nature of most research work. Roles focused on quantitative analysis and report delivery are the most likely to be remote, while positions requiring in-person moderation of focus groups or stakeholder workshops tend to require at least part-time office presence.
How do you become a market research executive?
Start with a degree in marketing, statistics, psychology, or a related social science, then build hands-on experience in a research analyst or coordinator role where you run surveys, analyze data, and present findings. Progress by taking ownership of full research projects, developing proficiency in both qualitative and quantitative methods, and demonstrating that your insights directly influenced business decisions. Executive-level roles typically require several years of that applied experience before you're considered.
Can you get a market research executive job without direct experience?
Moving into a market research executive role without prior research experience is difficult, but adjacent experience in data analysis, brand management, or strategic consulting can bridge the gap if you can show you've used data to inform decisions. Building a portfolio of independent research projects, earning a certification in research methods, and targeting smaller companies where titles carry broader scope than at large firms all improve your odds.
What does the market research executive interview process look like?
Most market research executive interviews run across multiple rounds, starting with a recruiter screen focused on background and methodology experience, followed by a hiring manager conversation about how you've translated research into business impact. A case study or take-home research brief is common at the mid-stage, asking you to design a study or interpret a data set. Final rounds typically include presentations to senior stakeholders or cross-functional partners who assess how well you communicate insights.
Where can I find and apply to market research executive jobs?
You can find and apply to market research executive jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States in one place. Find roles that match your experience and specialization, then apply directly to each listing.
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