Executive Director, General Partner (Biopharma Account Lead)

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Job Description

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies.

With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

We are looking to hire an Executive Director, General Partner– Biopharma.

As the Executive Director General Partner, you will be accountable for the strategic direction across assigned developing partnership account(s) working closely with a commercial Group Leader to focus on accelerating the growth and expanding the relationship of biopharmaceutical customers into strategic partnership accounts. This role will provide consultation, direction, and leadership to functional leads and employees to ensure commercial excellence, consistency, quality, innovation and learning across the portfolio of work inclusive of operational and financial targets. Provides an important interface with the client and with other departments internally on all aspects of assigned partnership account(s).

How will you make an impact:
You will enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer by helping our clients and sponsors to understand how our clinical development service offering enables them to deliver life-changing therapies to their patients more quickly.

What will you do:

Relationship Management: Cultivate and expand deep relationships at the highest levels within the account working in close coordination with your direct reports and other departments. Establish and grow customer loyalty and Customer Delight, including proactively engaging customers with insights on industry trends and potential challenges to position proactive innovative solutions to overcome them. Drive engagement between Executive Sponsor and other senior executives within broader Thermo Fisher leadership to foster deep trust and confidence in CRG’s offerings while gaining business insights to accelerate expansion. Make connections and identify new account areas for potential footprint expansion. Build and strengthen client advocacy and engagement at the highest account organizational levels. Establish robust CRG stakeholder management across all business units.
Account Ownership: Drive team to achieve target within Clinical Development Services Division and all Clinical Research business units. Expand existing commercial presence to grow account into strategic partner. Central point of contact for internal and external communication across all CRG. Proactively engages and drive internal stakeholders across the TMO organization (CRG, PSG, other groups), direct reports, and business partners (Finance, Legal, Sales, Operational Delivery, Governance) to ensure operational, financial and commercial goals are achieved. Coaches team and is actively involved on proposals and bid defenses and owns partnership pursuits efforts within account. Develop and maintain active account plan and demonstrate progress against planned strategies. Proactively solicits feedback from internal and external stakeholders to capture business intelligence for all account team members to share intelligence, best practices, and drive competitive differentiation.
Develops Growth Strategies: Identifies key areas of strategic expansion within account and drives proactive selling across all business units within CRG and across PSG. Collaborates with therapeutic unit leadership to develop strategies and execute against account growth plan with emphasis on enterprise level view. Develops innovative commercial solutions (including commercial constructs, financial incentive structures, operational models) and proactively presents to customer to address existing challenges. Proactively identify and address financial, operational, relationship and quality concerns aligned with customer needs while emphasizing TMO’s market differentiation. Develops strong working relationships with internal operational, commercial and finance partners to execute according to plan. Prioritize top revenue generation and maximize to increase market penetration.
Operational quality and efficiency: Enterprise champion collaborating effectively with direct reports and operational colleagues to ensure exquisite operational delivery, exceed operational milestones while maintaining expected levels of quality and rigor. Coach Dev Ops and others to proactively address potential challenges and issues while optimizing existing operating models to support more efficient ways of working. Drive incumbency on account,
Innovation: Leverage collective relationship to identify customer needs to inform innovation and investment strategies. Demonstrates a deep understanding of the client’s market position, needs, and competitive landscape consistently with ability to influence internal commercial, technological and operational innovation to proactively reduce gaps and drive transformation. Deeply understand industry trends to inform clients. Challenge enterprise on client needs to force innovation discussion and application to proactively reduce gaps and drive process improvements.
Team Management: Recruit, train, and manage the high-performing account team, including business development and development operations. Foster a collaborative and motivated environment focused on accountability for results, client advocacy and innovative problem solving by providing rigorous oversight, coaching and guidance to maximize individual and team performance using Challenger methodology. Ensure consistent delivery for each business development representative of top-line sales goals and targeted profit contribution. Drives commercial execution excellence. Correctly use Salesforce and enforce all sales administrative tasks.

How will you get here:

• A bachelor’s degree in business administration, sales, or a related field is the required minimum education; MBA or advanced degree is preferred.
• Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job comparable to 15+ years; strong preference for experience in a CRO, Pharmaceutical or Medical Device sales industry.
• Proven sales history with breadth of domestic geographic responsibility and 5+ years of account management experience. In some cases, an equivalency, consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience, will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Demonstrated success in a similar commercial leadership role that has consistently achieved and exceeded commercial targets.
• Robust Clinical Operations experience
• In-depth knowledge of the CRO industry and clinical trial processes, including regulatory requirements and best practices. Strong understanding of complex technical requirements and the ability to effectively communicate technical information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate, cultivate and influence stakeholders across functions and at all levels. Executive presence with ability to build and foster senior level customer relationships.
• Demonstrates robust judgment, problem solving and decision making; Ability to apply critical and analytical thinking and business acumen to develop effective solutions.
• A “big-picture” thinker with the ability to contribute meaningfully to strategic discussions while also remaining attuned to the details required for successful operational execution.
• Ability to create constructive tension with customers by identifying customer challenges and potential gaps, designing customized solutions and messaging to influence customer behavior and influence the buying process
• Understanding of management, planning, organizing and resourcing skills and managing priorities. A high tolerance for ambiguity and the ability to navigate complexity
• Great communicator and negotiator, able to develop shared perspectives and achieve actionable results through others.
• Ability to handle complex situations and multiple responsibilities simultaneously mixing long term projects with the urgency of immediate demands on the operations.
• Demonstrated analytical skills with the ability to judge situations accurately and quickly, grasping complexities, identifying key issues and applying sound judgment.
• Ability to quickly and effectively build credibility and strong relationships at all levels
• Strategic thinker with ability to uncover and understand customer needs and construct novel enterprise level solutions to address customer needs
• Must show the ability to demonstrate the Thermo Fisher values (The Four I’s) – Integrity, Intensity, Innovation, and Involvement

Working Conditions and Environment:

• Work is performed in an office environment with exposure to electrical office equipment.
• Travel, both domestic and international.
• Interaction with clients/associates required.
• Long varied hours required occasionally.

What we offer:

At PPD Clinical Research Services we hire the best, develop ourselves and each other, and recognise the power of being one team. We understand that you will want to grow both professionally and personally throughout your career, and therefore at PPD you will benefit from an award-winning learning and development programme, ensuring you reach your potential.  

As well as being rewarded a competitive salary, we have an extensive benefits package based around the health and well-being of our employees. We have a flexible working culture, where PPD Clinical Research Services truly value a work-life balance. We’ve grown sustainably year on year but continue to offer a collaborative environment, with teams of colleagues eager to share expertise and have fun together. We are a global organisation but with a local feel.

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. As one team of 100,000+ colleagues, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation and support patients in need. #StartYourStory with PPD, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.

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