Associate Director, Trade and Distribution Analytics

Ardelyx • Waltham, MA

2d • $185,000 - $226,000

About The Position

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:
The Associate Director, Trade and Distribution Analytics, reporting to the Senior Director, Patient Services and Market Access Analytics, will lead analytics and reporting initiatives that support specialty pharmacy (SP) performance, trade operations, and distribution strategy. This role will be responsible for generating actionable insights from specialty pharmacy and distribution data to inform strategic decision-making across Market Access, Trade, Patient Services, and Commercial teams.
The ideal candidate combines deep expertise in specialty pharmacy and supply chain analytics with strong technical capabilities, business acumen, and an ability to translate complex data into meaningful, strategic recommendations for senior leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, advanced degree preferred, in business, Finance, Data Science, Health Economics, or related field
• 8 - 10 years of progressive experience in Specialty Pharmacies operations, Trade and Distribution, Market Access or Commercial Analytics within the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry or equivalent experience
• Strong understanding of specialty pharmacy data, distribution channels, and pharmaceutical trade operations
• Experience working with specialty pharmacy data aggregators and complex healthcare datasets
• Working knowledge of Supply Chain data (852, 867, 844 and chargeback) and Specialty Pharmacy data (dispense, inventory, and status)
• Expertise with data visualization and analytics tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Snowflake, SQL, Excel)
• Strong knowledge of pharmaceutical compliance standards, including HIPAA and manufacturer data privacy regulations
• Demonstrated success translating complex analytics into actionable business insights for senior stakeholders
• Excellent collaboration, communication, and presentation skills; ability to influence and align across cross-functional teams
• Strong project management and organizational skills; ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Willingness to travel up to 20% domestically

Responsibilities

• Serve as the subject matter expert for trade and specialty pharmacy data within the Market Access and Commercial Analytics team
• Develop, train, and support reporting frameworks to track product distribution, inventory levels, and specialty pharmacy dispensing trends
• Support analytics and reporting related to trade pharmacy, and distribution performance
• Identify opportunities to improve analytics capabilities, automation, and reporting infrastructure
• Translate complex data into clear, actionable insights for operational and strategic decision-making
• Lead development and maintenance of specialty pharmacy analytics to support patient access strategies
• Analyze trends in dispensing, demand-to-dispense metrics, time to fill, and other patient access indicators to identify risks, opportunities, and operational improvements
• Lead the Specialty Pharmacy tokenization project, overseeing the end-to-end process including design, implementation, and ongoing optimization
• Partner with Specialty Pharmacy partners, IT teams, and external data aggregators to ensure accuracy, completeness, and consistency of specialty pharmacy data
• Identify data discrepancies, reporting gaps, or anomalies and lead resolution efforts, including coordinating data restatements with data aggregators when necessary
• Support leadership reporting for Monthly Revenue Reviews (MRR), Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR), and Board of Director (BOD) reporting related to trade pharmacy and distribution performance
• Partner with Market Access, Patient Services, Commercial Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, and IT on analytics initiatives and cross-functional projects as assigned

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level