Director, New Product Planning (NPP)

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop forward-looking strategies, market positioning and product profiles for pipeline products by synthesizing primary and secondary inputs that will inform the development and lifecycle plan

• Co-lead (with development colleague) product teams through clinical development phases, working in conjunction with internal business partners (e.g. clinical, translational medicine, regulatory, research, commercial, CMC) to optimize the market value of asset

• Drive completion of NPP and market research initiatives, working closely with market research colleagues and the project teams

• Proactively monitor and generate insights from market developments and competitive landscape and incorporate insights across multiple perspectives (e.g. commercial, managed markets, clinical, and scientific)

• Generate market assessments, TPPs, and early forecasts to prioritize commercial indications for products in key therapeutic areas

This position offers a candidate the opportunity to significantly contribute to the long-term commercial success of the portfolio. This position is responsible for providing commercially oriented guidance to early stage product opportunities through deep understanding of markets and ability to influence in matrixed organization.

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.