Onsite Director/Senior Director, Business Development, Mid-size Pharma

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About the role

  • Director/Senior Director leading business development for IQVIA's Clinical Solutions in EMEA. Position requires strategic growth initiatives across Pharmaceutical accounts.

Responsibilities

  • Achieve individual annual sales target based on selling to pharmaceutical clients across the offering suite
  • Maintain in-depth knowledge of all IQVIA services for appropriate cross-sell opportunities
  • Actively prospect and leverage potential new business opportunities within specified potential new and/or existing Customers/Accounts
  • Establish and execute a comprehensive sales plan for each target account
  • Cultivate strong, long-term relationships with key decision-makers within Account and develop deep knowledge of the customer organization
  • Actively network in the industry to establish relationships and to identify potential opportunities
  • Aggressively pursue awareness of competitive activities, positioning and pricing
  • Continuously monitor status of leads and opportunities to ensure a pipeline of opportunities is maintained
  • Analyse potential opportunities and develop sales strategies for each customer account
  • Ensure appropriate strategy/solution is proposed to customer
  • Monitor actions and results against plans
  • Establish brand recognition; communicate with internal Project Managers to assess overall level of customer satisfaction and progress of projects
  • Work with operations and functional managers to identify sales team and prepares and leads the sales presentation
  • Educate team participants in customer culture, operational needs/methods and sales techniques needed to close the sale
  • Coordinate with contracts and proposals to develop proposal
  • Handle follow-up related to the sale and drive completion of contractual documents
  • Utilize CRM to establish reports and dashboards to analyse business development and sales activities and track progress
  • Maintain high visibility within customer organization
  • Lead/participate in change management initiatives for the sales organization
  • Provide overall support and serves as a mentor for junior sales staff members.

Requirements

  • 10-15 years of business development experience in Clinical Research Organizations
  • Proven success in managing and growing strategic accounts within mid-size and large pharma
  • Strong understanding of global clinical development, regulatory pathways, and therapeutic area dynamics
  • Executive presence with excellent communication, negotiation, and influencing skills
  • Ability to navigate complex sales cycles and drive cross-functional collaboration
  • Experience with portfolio-level planning, asset prioritization, and long-range forecasting
  • Strong financial acumen and ability to structure deals that balance client value with commercial viability.

Benefits

  • Cutting-edge technology
  • Largest data sets
  • Best analytics tools
  • Diversity and inclusion in workplace

Job title

Director/Senior Director, Business Development, Mid-size Pharma

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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