Director/VP - Market Research

Major consulting firm in Scottsdale, AZ is seeking a Director/VP- Market Research.

 

Responsibilities:Provide senior level consultation on Market Research projects, as necessary across professional services teams. Provide adhoc assistance on all project related queries across professional services teams.Develop strong customer relationships and relentlessly focus on meeting their evolving needs. Constantly seek to understand their most critical issues and develop creative approaches to providing them market insights into these issues.Work with current and prospective client companies to define project needs, present proposals, negotiate contracts, and act as an account liaison to maintain ongoing good client communications and relations in conjunction with client/project teams. Foster seamless internal communication and strong collaboration with all internal teams (e.g., market research, product management, other professional services teams, IT, etc.) and present a unified, highly customer-focused face to the client. Provide client inputs to the IT team to constantly work towards improvising features on our existing products.Lead the growth of Market Research business through active business development activities, focusing on expanding the depth of business with existing customers and expanding our business to new customers.Manage, recruit, develop, and retain an exceptionally talented professional services team (team size differs based on level of responsibility and business).Provide thought leadership and innovation. Maintain knowledge of the pharmaceutical and sales & marketing informatics industries by maintaining relationships with peers in the sector and participating in external meetings and conferences. Strengthen and build intellectual property position by monitoring the market for competitors as they relate to current and future product and services.

Requirements:Ability to drive the strategy, business leadership, vision and life cycle management for different sales analytics services.Ability to lead, influence and motivate a team towards the company objectives. Possess a consultative approach with regard to identifying client issues and managing and delivering the solutions.Ability to exercise strong business judgment to effectively resolve conflict

Experience & Education:Prior experience in pharmaceutical sales and marketing and project/client management in the business consulting industry or as a service provider is strongly preferred.Strong relationship building experience coupled with project delivery experience in the pharmaceutical space.BS/MS/MBA in Marketing Research, Economics, Quantitative Methods/ Business Administration from a reputed university.

Salary - commensurate with experience

 

Refer to Job# 16739-Monster and email MS Word attached resume to Orly Miller, orly@analyticrecruiting.com or register online at www.analyticrecruiting.com choosing Orly Miller as your recruiter contact.