Jobs at Amylyx Pharmaceuticals

Amylyx Pharmaceuticals is seeking a Senior Director, New Product Planning to provide strategic leadership across new product planning, pipeline commercialization strategy, and long-range growth opportunities for Amylyx. The Senior Director will partner closely across Program Leadership, Medical Affairs, Regulatory, Clinical Development, Business Development, Market Access, and other cross-functional teams to assess market opportunities, define differentiated product strategies, and inform enterprise investment decisions from early development through lifecycle management.

Amylyx is a clinical-stage company currently focused on post-bariatric hypoglycemia (PBH), Wolfram syndrome, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

• Lead Commercial new product planning strategy for Amylyx pipeline assets and support lifecycle management planning for marketed products, ensuring alignment with broader portfolio strategy.
• Lead insight generation and market analysis, including landscape assessments, unmet need evaluation, stakeholder research, competitive intelligence, opportunity sizing, and scenario planning.
• Develop commercial strategy recommendations that inform development plans, target product profiles, indication sequencing, investment decisions, and long-range business planning.
• Serve as an active member of program teams generally for programs in Ph 1 and 2 and prepare for seamless asset hand-off to brand leadership generally during Phase 3.
• Partner with Clinical Development, Medical Affairs, Regulatory, and Market Access to ensure commercial perspectives are integrated into evidence-generation plans, development milestones, regulatory strategy, and access considerations.
• Define priority markets, customer segments, patient populations, stakeholder needs, value drivers, and potential positioning to support differentiated asset strategies.
• Collaborate across Amylyx to support potential Business Development for external opportunity assessments, due diligence, and strategic fit evaluations as needed.
• Build new product planning capabilities, processes, and ways of working that enable consistent, rigorous, and collaborative commercial input across Amylyx’s portfolio.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Life Sciences, or a related field required; advanced degree such as an MBA, MPH, or equivalent preferred.
• Minimum of 15 years of progressive pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or healthcare marketing experience with demonstrated success in brand management and commercial launch strategy.
• Demonstrated brand leadership resulting in successful product launches in biotechnology or specialty pharmaceuticals.
• Demonstrated success developing integrated healthcare provider, patient, caregiver, and disease awareness marketing strategies.
• Experience managing significant commercial budgets and external agency partnerships.
• Experience leading and working cross-functional commercial teams and influencing executive leadership on enterprise-wide strategic decisions. Demonstrated contributions as a member of program and lifecycle teams, integrated evidence generation planning group, pricing committees, and other strategic cross-functional bodies.
• Exceptional strategic thinking, analytical, leadership, problem-solving, executive communication, presentation, and relationship-building skills.
• Proven ability to build, develop, and lead high-performing teams in a fast-paced, evolving commercial environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Rare disease, endocrinology, metabolic disease, neurology, or specialty pharmaceutical experience preferred.
• Experience in a growing biotechnology organization, strategic consulting environment, or cross-functional portfolio planning role preferred