Director, Field Effectiveness & Operations

Xenon

Job Overview

Location

Boston

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Develop and operate a high-performing commercial field operations function in support of Xenon’s first anticipated product launch in epilepsy.
• Build and operationalize Xenon’s field effectiveness infrastructure to support launch readiness, launch execution, and post-launch optimization across commercial field teams.
• Partner with Field Strategy, Marketing, Market Access, Medical, Data Strategy & Analytics, IT, Finance, HR, Legal, and Compliance to translate launch strategy into field-ready processes, tools, and operating rhythms.
• Serve as a primary Commercial Operations partner to field strategy and leadership, ensuring field execution needs are anticipated, prioritized, and translated into operational and scalable solutions.
• Develop and produce field execution analytics and identify gaps in execution quality, adoption, and performance variability.
• Collaborate on strategy and lead operational execution of territory alignment, targeting refinement, field deployment support, and related vendor workstreams in partnership with Commercial Analytics, Sales leadership, Market Access, IT, and external partners.
• Own targeting operations and refinement processes, ensuring targeting outputs are accurate, actionable, timely, and aligned to commercial strategy.
• Translate field design, account segmentation, and targeting logic into field-ready CRM workflows, call plans, execution guidance, and KPIs.
• Serve as the business owner or key Commercial Operations partner for field-facing systems and tools, including CRM, field reporting, account planning tools, dashboards, and related technology platforms.
• Collaborate on business requirements for CRM workflows, field reporting, dashboards, account planning tools, and other field enablement capabilities.
• Lead incentive compensation operations in partnership with Sales leadership, Finance, HR, Legal, Compliance, and Analytics.
• Develop and lead IC governance, plan operations, goal-setting inputs, payout operations, issue resolution, documentation, and field communications.
• Support leadership decision-making by providing clear operational insights on IC effectiveness, field behavior, execution quality, and launch performance signals.
• Identify, develop, and implement AI-enabled and automation-based solutions that improve field productivity, launch performance, and leadership decision-making.
• Partner with Commercial Analytics, Data Strategy, IT, Legal, Compliance, Privacy, and business stakeholders to evaluate appropriate AI use cases across field operations and commercial execution.
• Partner closely with the Senior Director, Field Strategy & Enablement and commercial training team to ensure training materials, onboarding, and launch readiness programs incorporate relevant systems, processes, data, dashboards, CRM workflows, targeting, IC, and operational expectations.
• Manage external vendors supporting field operations, CRM, targeting, IC, dashboards, credentialing, field technology, or related workstreams.
• Manage and develop direct reports and/or contractors over time, including potential roles focused on incentive compensation, field operations, and field effectiveness.
• Operate effectively as both a strategic leader and hands-on builder in a lean, pre-launch / launch-stage biotech environment.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree in business, life sciences, analytics, healthcare, or related field preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in pharmaceutical, biotech, or life sciences commercial operations, sales operations, field effectiveness, sales force effectiveness, field analytics, or related roles.
• Demonstrated experience supporting launch readiness or commercial launch execution, ideally in a specialty, rare disease, neurology, CNS, or complex market environment.
• Strong knowledge of field operations capabilities, including CRM, territory alignment, targeting, field deployment, call planning, incentive compensation, field reporting, and performance management.

🏖️ Benefits

• Our Total Rewards program includes base salary, target bonus, and stock options, as well as a full range of benefits including medical, dental, vision, short-& long-term disability, accidental death & dismemberment, and life insurance programs, Employee Assistance Program, travel insurance, and retirement savings programs with company matching contributions.
• Xenon encourages time to rest and re-charge through vacation, personal days, sick days, and an end-of-year company shutdown.
• Xenon highly values employee development and has an expanding Training, Learning & Development program, including a Tuition Assistance program for advanced degrees.

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About Xenon

Xenon is a leading provider of advanced data analytics and artificial intelligence solutions. The company specializes in developing and implementing cutting-edge technologies that help businesses unlock the full potential of their data. Xenon's offerings include predictive modeling, machine learning algorithms, and data visualization tools, all designed to drive informed decision-making and operational efficiency. They serve a diverse range of industries, including finance, healthcare, and retail, empowering clients to gain deeper insights, optimize performance, and achieve strategic business objectives. Xenon is committed to innovation and delivering tangible value through data-driven strategies.

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