Competitive Intelligence Manager (Biotech)

Location: Hybrid in Thousand Oaks, California, with attendance required two or three times per week

Company

hirify.global is a biotechnology company developing medicines across oncology, inflammation, general medicine, and rare disease.

What you will do

• Lead competitive intelligence gathering for R&D stakeholders and leadership teams across multiple pipeline assets.
• Develop and present intelligence deliverables for R&D, commercial, and legal business partners.
• Conduct hypothesis-driven primary and secondary research using clinical, scientific, regulatory, financial, market, and patent data sources.
• Synthesize findings from scientific and medical conferences into detailed internal reports.
• Manage competitive intelligence vendors and coordinate research with key opinion leaders, clinical trial investigators, physicians, medical science liaisons, field teams, and investor relations.
• Analyze clinical trials, regulatory considerations, patent landscapes, competitor launch timing, and market-share scenarios.

Requirements

• Doctorate degree; or a master’s degree plus 2 years of relevant experience; or a bachelor’s degree plus 4 years; or an associate degree plus 8 years; or a high school diploma/GED plus 10 years.
• Relevant experience may include competitive intelligence, business development, tech transfer, equity research, consulting, or patent law.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to produce concise insights from complex scientific data for stakeholders at different levels and across functions.
• Knowledge of pharmaceutical discovery and development, clinical trials, FDA and EMA regulation, and drug commercialization.
• Experience managing multiple projects and working with technical, regulatory, financial, clinical, scientific, and patent information sources.
• Ability to support therapeutic-area strategy, long-range planning, go/no-go decisions, and business development opportunity assessments.

Nice to have

• Experience with early pipeline development and assessment in BD CI, R&D CI, business development, equity research, tech transfer, patent law, or a similar function.
• Experience with resources such as TrialTrove, Cortellis Intelligence, Evaluate Pharma, PubMed, AlphaSense, FactSet, and USPTO patents.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, innovative, and science-based work environment.
• Health, dental, vision, life, disability, and flexible spending benefits for eligible employees and dependents.
• Retirement and savings plan with company contributions.
• Discretionary annual bonus, stock-based long-term incentives, and paid time off.
• Career development opportunities and flexible work models where applicable.

Hiring process

• Applications are accepted until a suitable candidate is selected; no fixed deadline is specified.
• Sponsorship for the role is not guaranteed.