Director, Business Analytics

Ardelyx is a publicly traded commercial biopharmaceutical company founded with a mission to discover, develop and commercialize innovative first-in-class medicines that meet significant unmet medical needs. Ardelyx has two commercial products approved in the United States, IBSRELA® (tenapanor) and XPHOZAH® (tenapanor). Ardelyx has agreements for the development and commercialization of tenapanor outside of the U.S. Kyowa Kirin commercializes PHOZEVEL® (tenapanor) for hyperphosphatemia in Japan. A New Drug Application for tenapanor for hyperphosphatemia has been approved in China with Fosun Pharma. Knight Therapeutics commercializes IBSRELA in Canada.

Position Summary

Ardelyx is searching for a creative and integrative thinker for an important role in leading analytics for one of our key brands while also helping build the function’s analytic capabilities. The Director, Business Analytics will be responsible for strategic insight generation and enabling performance of a key product within the Ardelyx portfolio. This individual will be responsible for leading this brand’s analytics strategy and delivering it across a range of analytics needs including core performance analytics, digital / omnichannel analytics and advanced analytics. This individual will also partner with IT to ensure a supporting data strategy and governance. They will partner on staging large amounts of data into digestible tables for systems integration, developing dynamic data dashboards that can adjust with real-time data, and articulating trends and insights into clear & specific action items to ensure optimized commercial uptake of a key Ardelyx product.

The candidate will work in a highly cross-functional environment interfacing with the Commercial Market Access, Sales, and Marketing teams. The successful commercial execution of these functions will be highly dependent upon the analytic deliverables and strategic guidance provided by this individual. The person in this role should be very analytic, energetic, confident, collaborative, diplomatic, and a problem solver who takes ownership of the important role they will play to achieve the shared business objectives of the organization. This role will report to the Executive Director, Business Analytics.

Responsibilities

• Lead and define the analytics strategy and plan for a key Ardelyx product, including defining required analytics initiatives and projects to support business strategies and building, deploying and embedding these analytic capabilities into business processes
• Define and implement analytic plans to design customer engagement strategies, optimize customer engagements with “next best action” and optimize performance, including measurement of business impact of personal and non-personal engagements
• Serve as the primary field‑facing contact to address all ad‑hoc analytic related queries, which includes requests related to sales performance, incentive compensation, HCP universe, call & sample activity and general reporting requests
• Partner with key commercial stakeholders, including market access & sales and marketing team to define performance metrics, automate information flow, and continuously enhance reports as the business evolves
• Collaborate with external business partners and internal Ardelyx stakeholders to create user‑friendly, intuitive, & interactive data visualizations and dashboards within BI platforms (including Tableau & Power BI) that will garner insights and drive business decisions
• Work with IT and external data warehouse vendor to ensure that disparate data tables are staged cohesively and adhere to set business rules
• Work closely with IT counterparts to gather and define business requirements for field and HQ reporting needs. Test any new functionality to ensure it meets the stated business needs
• Work with legal and compliance to understand data trends and ensure compliance to all regulations and policies.

Qualifications

The anticipated annualized base pay range for this full‑time position is $205,000 - $251,000. Ardelyx utilizes industry data to ensure that our compensation is competitive and aligned with our industry peers. Actual base pay will be determined based on a variety of factors, including years of relevant experience, training, qualifications, and internal equity. The compensation package may also include an annual bonus target and equity awards, subject to eligibility and other requirements.

Ardelyx also offers a robust benefits package to employees, including a 401(k) plan with generous employer match, 12 weeks of paid parental leave, up to 12 weeks of living organ and bone marrow leave, equity incentive plans, health plans (medical, prescription drug, dental and vision), life insurance and disability, flexible time off, annual Winter Holiday shut‑down, and at least 11 paid holidays.

Ardelyx is an equal opportunity employer.

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