Associate Director, Commercial FP&A (GTN)

Alkermes Plc

  • Waltham, MA
  • 2 days ago

    Highlights

    In this role, the Associate Director will partner with Commercial Business Leaders, Market Access, Accounting and other cross-functional stakeholders, translating market access dynamics, commercial performance and accounting inputs into clear financial insights for business partners and leadership. In 2024 and 2025, we were certified as a Great Place to Work in the U.S. and named one of Massachusetts' Top Places to Work by the Boston Globe, a Best Place to Work in Greater Cincinnati by the Cincinnati Business Courier and recognized as a Best Place to Work in BioPharma by Fortune Magazine.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationWaltham, MA

    Description

    • Support GTN planning and forecasting: Manage day-to-day GTN forecast, budget and long-range planning activities for two business units, including preparing and documenting key assumptions for review.
    • Perform variance and performance analysis: Analyze actual results versus forecast, budget and prior periods; identify rate, channel/payer mix, volume and timing drivers; prepare clear variance explanations.
    • Coordinate cross-functional inputs: Work with Commercial Business Leaders and the Market Access team to gather payer, channel, contracting, pricing and access inputs and reflect them in GTN assumptions and financial outlooks.
    • Partner with Accounting: Support close activities, accrual inputs, reserve reviews, reconciliations and explanation of actual-to-forecast differences, following established ownership boundaries and controls.
    • Prepare leadership materials: Develop concise analyses, scenario views and presentation materials that explain net sales performance and highlight risks and opportunities.
    • Maintain models and processes: Update and enhance GTN models, assumption libraries, reporting tools and process calendars, and suggest improvements to accuracy, repeatability and efficiency.
    • Support scenario analysis: Model the financial impact of changes in contracting, pricing, payer mix, customer mix, channel dynamics and other commercial assumptions as requested by the team and business partners.
    • Maintain documentation and controls: Follow established review cadences, source documentation, version control and approval points, and keep audit-ready support for GTN assumptions and judgments.
    • Serve as a GTN resource: Act as a day-to-day Commercial FP&A contact for GTN questions across the two business units and build working knowledge of key drivers.
    • Flag issues early: Identify trends, data gaps and forecast exposure; raise material issues with the Sr. Director with appropriate context and proposed options.

    The Associate Director, Commercial FP&A (GTN) Gross-to-Net Lead will support Commercial FP&A's gross-to-net (GTN) planning, forecasting, reporting and analysis for two business units, reporting to the Sr. Director, Commercial FP&A. In this role, the Associate Director will partner with Commercial Business Leaders, Market Access, Accounting and other cross-functional stakeholders, translating market access dynamics, commercial performance and accounting inputs into clear financial insights for business partners and leadership. The individual will help run a disciplined, transparent GTN process, coordinate assumptions across functions, flag risks and opportunities, and help explain net sales performance. This role will work a hybrid weekly schedule in our Waltham office.

    Why join Team Alkermes?

    Alkermes applies its decades of deep neuroscience expertise to develop medicines designed to help people living with complex and difficult-to-treat psychiatric and neurological disorders. A global biopharmaceutical company, headquartered in Ireland with U.S. locations in Massachusetts and Ohio, we seek to make a meaningful difference in the way people manage their diseases. We have a portfolio of proprietary commercial products for the treatment of alcohol dependence, opioid dependence, schizophrenia, bipolar I disorder and narcolepsy, and a pipeline of clinical and preclinical candidates in development for various psychiatric and neurological disorders.

    We are proud to have been recognized as an employer of choice by many national organizations. In 2024 and 2025, we were certified as a Great Place to Work in the U.S. and named one of Massachusetts' Top Places to Work by the Boston Globe, a Best Place to Work in Greater Cincinnati by the Cincinnati Business Courier and recognized as a Best Place to Work in BioPharma by Fortune Magazine.

    Alkermes, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any qualified applicant or employee because of race, creed, color, age, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender expression and identity, disability, genetic information, veteran status, military status, application for military service or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal law. Alkermes also complies with all work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA. Alkermes is an E-Verify employer.

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