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Director, Competitive Strategy (Oncology)

Prescient
London
1 day ago
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About You
Do you want to specialize in drug development or commercialization strategy?Are you a highly motivated professional looking to leverage your experience into a valuable career?Prescient is looking for a seasoned principal or director to join us as Director, within our Competitive Strategy business to be based in our London office.
Do you have experience in and a passion for:
Leading and growing client accounts?
Supporting highly complex projects?
Delivering solutions based on your knowledge of the evolving EU and US biopharmaceutical market and trends?
Mentoring and developing account teams by using your core consultancy skills through on-the-job coaching?
If so, consider turning your expertise into a valuable career at Prescient.
About Prescient Competitive Strategy
Prescient Competitive Strategy, a Prescient Healthcare Group business, offers best-in-class biopharmaceutical intelligence by providing impactful insight and decision support to product and portfolio teams from early clinical development through to loss of exclusivity.
About the Opportunity
As a Director, your time will be divided as follows:
20-30% on business development (mixture of existing and new clients)
70-80% on project delivery
You will be part of a fast-growing PE-backed business that allows high-performing employees to make an impact and contribute to growing the business. You will have the chance to channel your advanced degree into supporting the development and commercialization of portfolios, assets and brands by integrating therapeutic, clinical and commercial expertise to ensure that clients are able to make confident decisions.
You will be responsible for leading successful Competitive Strategy engagements across our clients’ product and company life cycles, and for growing revenue within existing accounts. As your clients will mainly be in the US, the Director position requires an expert understanding of the evolving US biopharmaceutical market and trends. Many projects will also involve global client stakeholders; therefore, knowledge of drug development and commercialization in other markets is also desirable.
Reporting : You will report to a Vice President within our Competitive Strategy business
Time Allocation : 75% of your time will be spent in office and 25% in domestic or international travel (for client meetings, conferences and inter-office visits)
Key Responsibilities
Project Directing: Collaborate with clients to ensure that projects are designed to answer strategic business questions and executed with a high degree of client satisfaction
Account Management: Actively participate in devising overall strategic client account plans, developing the account team, strengthening existing relationships and expanding Prescient’s reach within the client organization while building the Prescient brand
Business Development: Grow accounts through existing engagements, actively seek out new business based on client needs and pursue new opportunities with new brands within existing accounts
Project Management: Ensure three-dimensional management of client engagements, including design, planning, client and people management, evidence collection, analysis and reporting
Client Management: Collaborate with other members of the project and account teams to ensure clients experience best-in-class customer service
Subject Matter Expertise: Act as a valued subject matter expert externally, and mentor junior staff internally on clinical, regulatory and commercial aspects of the pharmaceutical industry
Analysis and Reporting: Lead project teams to analyze findings, develop conclusions and recommendations, and create client presentations that deliver an evidence-based story on the topics in focus
Evidence Generation: Ensure that the project teams are collecting market, competitor and stakeholder evidence in an efficient manner
Conference Attendance: Attend key conferences with the objectives of interacting with a wide range of experts and delegates and attending key symposia, presentations, posters and booths
Thought Leadership: Collaborate with the marketing team to develop and publish thought leadership content that has a meaningful impact on Prescient’s brand and business development activities
Line Management: Mentor the members of the Competitor Strategy team by identifying their strengths and opportunities and supporting their development; ensure sustained focus on delivering concise insights that can create impact and be of value to our clients
Required Experience and Skills
Higher degree (MSc, MD, PhD) in related disciplines
5-6 years of project management experience and 8-9 years of commercial experience
Strong CI/consulting experience and proven account leadership
Deep subject matter expertise in a related therapy area, and a complementary commercial skill (e.g., access, regulatory, marketing, etc.)
Excellent business development skills to cultivate and grow existing client relationships; strong account management skills; exceptional framing and solution-forming skills
Confident communication skills to interact with clients on a peer-to-peer basis and provide subject matter expertise
What We Offer
Competitive package and remuneration linked to performance
Opportunity to lead pharmaceutical and biotech client accounts to help them develop their portfolios, assets and brand strategies
High-growth, entrepreneurial environment where you can create significant client and business value and forge your own path
Platform for accelerated professional development and career growth with significant levels of responsibility and accountability, and the opportunity to be part of the U management team
Opportunity to lead extraordinary teams that are driven by personal learning and client impact
About Prescient Healthcare Group
Prescient is a pharma services firm specializing 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:www.prescienthg.com.
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.

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