Director - Commercial Strategy (Launch Excellence)
hace 2 días
London
About You Do you want to be part of building and shaping the successful pharma brands of the future? Are you passionate about understanding why customers and patients behave like they do and applying this to launch excellence? Due to business growth and expansion Prescient are looking for Directors to work for our inspiring, fast-paced, global award-winning consultancy, working with the top twenty pharma companies worldwide. At the cutting edge of the pharma industry’s R and D pipeline, working on exciting areas of new science and working on innovative medicines that will transform patients’ lives? Are you ready to move into a consultancy role, as a Director? If you have 10 to 15 years of experience working as a Senior Director or Vice President in global, medical, marketing, and / or commercial roles in a pharma business, with particular experience in a senior launch excellence role, this could be the right opportunity for you. Our Directors are some of the most senior members of the team, responsible for the largest global consulting projects and matrix team leadership. As a Director you perform a critical role for our clients and internal project team members. You will develop strong client relationships, comprehend their challenges, and lead project teams to create and deliver impactful solutions and create incredible new business opportunities. This role is a leader within our organisation with outstanding future career progression and potential; we offer unrivalled professional development, due to the significant variety of geographies, clients, disease areas, and consulting challenges, with the opportunity to build strong, sustainable client relationships. About Our Commercial Practice Prescient has three core practices: Commercial, Competitor Intelligence and Medical. We specialise in supporting our biopharma clients in making insightful strategic choices for their products and portfolios. We bring together a unique blend of skills and experiences which are required to drive winning strategies. When you join this exciting venture, you will be working with global healthcare and pharmaceutical clients across the full product life cycle, to help them unlock the full potential of their brands. The Commercial Practice specialises in the following project types: Launch excellence; brand strategy; brand positioning, value proposition and brand story development; disease area and portfolio strategy; life cycle management planning; new product planning; competitor strategy; workshop facilitation; and strategic customer research. About the Opportunity As a Director, you will be a key driver of the day to day growth of the Commercial business; winning and leading projects, building and nurturing high value long term relationships with clients and managing and coaching the team. You will be the go-to person for clients, able to establish yourself as a credible strategic advisor to VP level, supported as required by a Prescient VPs and senior leaders. Be able to lead, stretch and inspire a team of Engagement Managers and Analysts to deliver high-quality insight-led strategic projects effectively, efficiently and profitably. Your lens should be broad enough to think beyond the project, with a constant eye on opportunities to help build and expand client relationships, add value to brands and businesses and deliver on our "land and expand" account growth model. Top drawer strategic thinking skills with a strong focus on putting the customer at the heart of the process and being able to stretch and challenge client and internal teams to think beyond the obvious. Strong facilitation, and client management and relationship-building skills, ideally developed in a similar consultancy / agency business. An entrepreneurial, growth-focused mindset that you apply to clients, the business and the team you lead. Your accountabilities include: Delivering Client Consulting Projects • Lead consulting relationships with clients to develop and implement practical solutions that meet their business needs and deliver measurable business impact., • Successfully manage and deliver projects in your practice on time and within budget, delegating and coaching more junior team members to deliver quality work., • Serve as a trusted advisor to clients, providing them with expert guidance, strategic recommendations, and innovative solutions to address their challenges and opportunities. Business Development • Identify and pursue opportunities to expand our client base and revenue growth within the pharmaceutical industry., • Lead the creation of an Account Plan for your key clients, working collaboratively to manage it., • Create the storyboard and content for proposals, working in partnership with the principal team., • Deliver pitch presentations confidently, which leads to new business being won. Promoting Our Brand and Reputation • Stay abreast of emerging trends, best practices, and Uptake thought leadership materials, sharing with personal network and Uptake clients, • Contribute to the development of thought leadership content, case studies, publications and awards Required Experience and Skills • Relevant bachelor’s degree or advanced degree – this should include life sciences, ideally with a business and marketing component, • More than ten years of relevant professional experience, with at least seven years in life sciences consulting (with strategy and primary market research experience), and specific experience at a senior level in launch excellence, • Excellent business development skills to cultivate and grow existing client relationships; strong account management skills; exceptional framing and solution-forming skills, • Exceptional thinking skills: strategic, analytical and conceptual, • Extensive experience leading and developing consulting account teams, • Confident communication skills to interact with clients on a peer-to-peer basis and provide subject matter expertise What will we provide for you? • The opportunity to work and travel internationally, particularly in the US, and across a variety of time zones, and to client sites throughout Europe and the UK, • You will work and collaborate with leaders in the top 20 biggest pharma companies in the world, • Our cutting-edge HR policies include the flexibility of core working hours, and incredible support for your wellbeing, • Enjoy a weekly team day in the office, • Relax with five weeks paid holiday plus public holidays, and an extra day off for your birthday, • A hugely competitive range of benefits, including private medical insurance and group income protection, • A dog-friendly office that welcomes and cares for your canine associates, bring them with you on your team day in the office About Prescient Healthcare Group Prescient is a pharma services firm specialising in dynamic decision support and product and portfolio strategy. We partner with our clients to turn science into value by helping them understand the potential of their molecules, shaping their strategic plans and allowing their decision making to be the biggest differentiating factor in the success of their products. When companies partner with Prescient, the molecules in their hands have a greater potential for success than the same science in the hands of their competitors. Founded in 2007, Prescient is a global firm with a footprint in ten cities across three continents. Our team of nearly 475 experts partners with 27 of the top 30 biopharmaceutical companies, the fastest-growing mid-caps and cutting-edge emerging biotechs, including some of the biggest and most innovative brands. More than 80% of our employees hold advanced life sciences degrees, and our teams deliver an impressive depth of therapeutic, clinical and commercial expertise. Prescient has been a portfolio company of Bridgepoint Development Capital since 2021 and Baird Capital since 2017. For more information, please visit: We are an equal opportunity employer and fully comply with applicable legislation in all of the geographies in which we operate. Applicants are considered for positions without regard to veteran status, uniformed service member status, race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information or any other category protected by applicable national, federal, state or local laws. Does this sound like the sort of team you want to be part of? If it does, please click the apply button. Please let us know if we can make any adjustments at any stage of the application and interview process.