JD - Director - Life Sciences Industry Group (Domain Expert)
Qualifications & Expertise desired:
- Minimum of masters degree in life science or related area, PhD Degree (preferred).
- 15-20 years of experience in the Pharma and Biotechnology or Life sciences IT industry.
- Experienced having delivered Pharma R&D Discovery, Clinical Development or Commercial CRM IT Programs
- Deep understanding of Pharma value chain, Market leading core life sciences products. Working knowledge of any products - Veeva, Salesforce, SAP, Argus, Werum Pas X, LabWare LIMS and ELN products will be an advantage.
- Worked on GxP processes and with GAMP compliant validated pharma IT systems.
Skills:
- Ability to collaborate and influence highly skilled group of scientists, architects and engineers without direct authority.
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to lead people from diverse experiences and technology skills.
- Excellent customer service skills, enthusiastic attitude, and solid work ethics.
- Business and marketing intelligence with respect to new projects, competitors? activities and prospective customers.
- Excellent written and oral communication. Hands on with power point and AI productivity tools.
- Strong interpersonal and relationship-building abilities.
- Collaborative team player with strong networking capabilities.
Nice to have:
- Data-driven mindset and ability to leverage data insights for decision-making.
- Individual with lab experience in molecular biology, genomics or genetics (R&D setting in a Pharma or Clinical Research Org ecosystem)
- Hands on Business Analysis/Consulting experience.
Activities within the organisation:
- Sales enablement: Prospecting | targeting clients | account mining | collaborating globally with Delivery and Sales Teams| Pre-sales.
- Life Sciences solutions and offerings ownership: Offering collateral across value chain
- Thought leadership: Contributing to White Papers, PoVs, speaker participation and poster presentation at focused life sciences events.
- Engagement execution and management: Identify value drivers for existing accounts, present that in QBRs and engage in consulting activities in broadening the customers? businesses towards newer areas.
- Team and organization: Building LS specific competencies working closely with the technology practices