Vice President Pharmaceutical Market Research - London, United Kingdom - Plan Global Recruitment Ltd

Description

Sector:
Market Research and Intelligence
Healthcare and Pharmaceutical

Contract type:
Full time, Permanent

Our client is a decision support firm helping our clients with strategic insights and foresights to improve their assumptions and hence enabling them to make better decisions.

Core specialities include market research (qualitative & quantitative), competitive intelligence (primary intelligence & secondary), market access, pricing and reimbursement.

The VP of Market Research will report to the President. This is a commercial role so individuals must be entrepreneurial with strong strategic thinking.

Therefore, the candidate should be already well established in market research with a proven track record in selling and delivering international ad-hoc market research.

Ideally you will have built a market research team for both qualitative and quantitative research. This will be backed up by a broad network of industry contacts.

Build and commercially develop a portfolio of global pharmaceutical companies where you will be responsible for the building up the 'Quantitative Practice' via business development and delivery of market research project.

Proposal writing
Occasional project management – emergency cover
Spend 70% of time on selling, 25% building the market research practice and 5% admin/misc
Manage a small team where you will have responsibility for the delivery of projects that are commissioned through your group
Advance degree in Statistics (preferably PhD) with relevant market research and marketing experience (Combined Lifescience first degree and – Psychology and Psychometrics))
~15+ years of experience as a high end ad-hoc international market research professional from the agency side
~ Fluency in another main European language would be an added advantage – German, Italian, French and Spanish
~ Experience of selling ad-hoc market research and/or business consulting where you will have gained a detailed understanding of the selling, scoping, proposal writing, and project management and delivery of projects
~ A proven track record in the delivery of new revenue through both account management and new business development
~ Relationships and good rapport with top 20 pharma, top 10 biotech and other healthcare companies would be a bonus
~ Flexibility to travel (20-40% of your time)

MD and MBA or PhD and MBA from tier universities (PhD must be in life science area)
Previously held project management responsibilities
Previously worked at leading ad-hoc market research agencies
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