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VP, Commercial Planning

Alto Neuroscience · Mountain View, CA · On-site

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About Alto Neuroscience

About Alto Neuroscience, Inc. At Alto Neuroscience, you will play a pivotal role in advancing precision psychiatry and improving how mental health disorders are treated. Join us in building the next generation of personalized neuroscience-based therapeutics. Backed by Stanford.

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Vice President, Commercial Planning to serve as Alto's first fully dedicated commercial hire and help lead the company's transition from a clinical-stage biotech to a launch-ready commercial organization. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 12+ years of biotech or pharmaceutical commercial experience, with direct experience in new product planning, commercial analytics, forecasting, launch strategy, or related commercial functions
  • Demonstrated experience building commercial capabilities in a pre-commercial or early-commercial biotech environment, ideally as a first or early commercial hire
  • Strong forecasting, market sizing, and quantitative analytical skills, with the ability to personally develop and evaluate models and analyses
  • Demonstrated experience developing commercial strategy and translating clinical, competitive, and market insights into actionable commercial plans
  • Experience building or scaling commercial analytics, market research, data infrastructure, and related commercial capabilities
  • Experience partnering cross-functionally with Clinical Development, Medical Affairs, Regulatory, and Market Access/HEOR on development and commercialization strategy
More about this role

Primary Role

We are seeking an experienced Vice President, Commercial Planning to serve as Alto's first fully dedicated commercial hire and help lead the company's transition from a clinical-stage biotech to a launch-ready commercial organization. This role will establish the foundation for Alto's commercial function, with responsibility for new product planning, commercial analytics and forecasting, launch readiness planning, early commercial strategy, and the infrastructure required to support a future commercial organization.

This is a build-from-zero role suited to a hands-on commercial leader who has helped build commercial capabilities in a pre-commercial or early-commercial biotech environment. The role is primarily internally focused, translating clinical, market, and competitive insights into rigorous commercial analyses, plans, and infrastructure that support executive decision-making and future commercialization efforts.

What you'll do

Commercial Strategy & New Product Planning

  • Lead the development of our commercial strategy for ALTO-207 and new product planning efforts for our pipeline programs, including market sizing, epidemiology-based patient flow modeling,...

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