Competitive Intelligence Manager, Air Specialty

**Date**:8 May 2025

**Department**:Strategy, Sustainability & Growth

**Business Area**:Mktg, Market Access, Bus. Excellence & Med. Affair

**Job Type**:Direct Employee

**Contract Type**:Permanent

**Location**:Parma, IT

**_About us_**
- Based in Parma, Italy, Chiesi is an international research-focused pharmaceutical and healthcare group with over 90 years’ experience, operating in 31 countries with more than 7,000 employees (Chiesi Group). To achieve its mission of improving people’s quality of life by acting responsibly towards society and the environment, the Group researches, develops and markets innovative drugs in its main therapeutic areas**:Discover more here**
- We are proud to to have been awarded with **B Corp Certification**, a recognition of **high social and environmental standards**. We are a **reliable** company that adopts and promotes a **transparent and ethical behavior** at all levels.
- We believe that the success of **Chiesi is built and shaped by our people and our strong set of shared Values and Behaviors**. Our people make a critical difference to our success, which is why it is vital that we attract and retain the right talent who will continue to enrich our culture by living and breathing our values and behaviors.
- We are committed to **embrace diversity, inclusion and equal opportunities.** In fact, we are a global family made up of different cultures, different genders, generations, ethnicities, abilities, sexual identities and many other enriching diversities.

**_Chiesi Corporate Functions_**
- These are the functions supporting the business:

- Global HR
- Global Finance, Procurement & IT
- Group Legal & Corporate Affairs
- Global Communication & External Relations
- Transformation
- Global Strategy, Sustainability and Growth (SSG)

**_Who we are looking for_**

**Purpose**
- Our Competitive Intelligence team - part of the Strategy, Sustainability and Growth Unit - is responsible for monitoring, analyzing and interpreting the competitive landscape of AIR and CARE therapeutic areas and for assessing external competitive environment of areas of interest for Chiesi business by providing insights about opportunities/threats to trigger business decisions.Reporting to the Competitive Intelligence Head, you will work in a cross-functional and dynamic environment analyzing and interpreting the external landscape and providing actionable strategic insights and compelling recommendations to inform and/or trigger strategic business decisions, enhance commercial operations and support functions’ projects.

**Main Responsibilities**
- Build robust global competitive landscapes by proactively analyzing secondary and primary intelligence sources
- Collect, monitor and interpret well-rounded competitors’ insights & strategy with regards to financials, products’ development & life cycle management, organizational capabilities, customer engagement activities
- Lead competitors’ and peer companies’ strategic analyses
- Foster strong working relationships and be a point of reference in cross-functional teams for the identification and evaluation of scenario’s challenges and opportunities related to inorganic growth options
- Collect primary intelligence insights to contribute to the interpretation of new benchmarks and trends across industry (e.g. digital therapeutics, non-pharma solutions, sustainability)
- Partner closely with global and local teams to provide actionable strategic insights and compelling recommendations ensuring the effective incorporation in the Company’s plans and the delivery to key stakeholders
- Strengthen and expand the knowledge base by overseeing and challenging the work of external intelligence providers, ensuring high-quality insights for decision-making
- Lead strategic workshops and war games
- Support Competitive Intelligence capability strengthening, sharing best practices and learnings with the local teams at affiliate level
- Continuously improve intelligence processes and tools to enhance efficiency and effectiveness
- Attend international selected conferences and events to gather, synthetize and report insights on new external trends
- Contribute to the creation of an internal Competitive Intelligence newsletter and insights’ reports

**Experience Required**
- Minimum of 7 years of experience in Competitive, Strategic or Market Intelligence, Strategy & Insights, Business Development & Licensing or a related field within the pharmaceutical industry or consulting**Education**
- PhD/Master's Degree in Economics, Business or Life Sciences**Languages**
- Fluency in English (both written and spoken)**Soft Skills**
- Strategic Thinking: Ability to think critically and strategically about industry trends and company positioning
- Problem-Solving: Strong problem-solving skills to address complex business challenges
- Leadership: Proven leadership abilities to manage projects and guide teams while building strong collaboration across departments
- Adaptability: Fl