Executive Director Business Development (Remote)

Responsibilities:

• Drive Business Growth: Sells the company’s capabilities, differentiating Emmes from competitors, and follows up on leads to secure new opportunities.
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  Achieve Sales Targets: Meets or exceeds annual sales goals for assigned territories and accounts.

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  Strategic Client Engagement: Develops and executes a client call cycle and strategic account plans to build long-term partnerships. Leverages a strong network of biotech, pharmaceutical, and government contacts.
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  Client Relationship Management: Cultivates relationships with senior-level stakeholders to expand business opportunities.
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  Sales Reporting and Analysis: Provides regular updates on sales activities, market trends, and competitive intelligence to senior management.
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  Cross-functional Collaboration: Works closely with operations to ensure a deep understanding of capabilities, capacity, and timelines, ensuring alignment across departments for optimal client delivery.
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  Win Strategy Development: Identifies and develops tailored strategies to secure individual opportunities and enhance client partnerships.
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  Customer Expectation Management: Sets and manages customer expectations, ensuring high levels of satisfaction through a consultative approach.
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  Bid and Client Meetings: Organizes and leads client visits, presentations, and bid defenses to secure business.
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  CRM and Pipeline Management: Uses CRM tools to document client interactions and manage a robust pipeline of opportunities.
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  Additional Responsibilities: Performs other duties as needed to support the broader business development goals.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in scientific or business field
• 10+ years related experience in providing CRO services to the biotech, pharma and/or government market segments with direct experience in biotech, pharma and or government account management and interaction with med level and executive level decision makes.
• 4-6 years management experience, including hiring, managing, and supporting a diverse team.
• Ability to travel up to 50% to potential & current customer locations and corporate locations.
• Understanding of full service CRO services, as well as eClinical solutions (RTSM, EDC, and eCOA).
• Understanding of services and technology sales cycles and associated approaches and strategies.
• Demonstrated ability to acquire, grow and retain client base as well as manage difficult situations.
• Strong working relationships with internal operations, scientific and business staff.
• Effective presentation, documentation and interpersonal/teamwork skills preferably in the MS Office Suite.