Associate Director for Contracts providing senior - level leadership in negotiating complex research agreements. Overseeing compliance and operational procedures in grants and contracts within Rice University.
About the role
- Director of Competitive Intelligence responsible for healthcare competitive insights and strategic analysis. Leading cross-functional teams to ensure business leaders have actionable market intelligence.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a consultant and expert resource offering an objective viewpoint on disruptive forces and pending market and competitive events.
- Lead secondary and primary competitive investigations, assessing and managing external vendors, and synthesizing and disseminating intelligence and associated implications.
- Ensure that business leaders have actionable intelligence by escalating the business implications of competitors’ activities and disruptive market events and trends.
- Serve as integral member of the Commercial Assessment team and extended Business Development team assisting the due diligence process.
- Assist franchise teams and Business Development teams to monitor the competitive landscape, develop market scans, and identify strategic opportunities.
- Identify, profile, and monitor key competitors and their strategies in key business areas of interest.
- Monitor the external environment to build integrated insights of key competitors.
- Maintain policies and guidance for CI, assess and on-board agencies, and ensure a comprehensive view of competitor and market activity.
- Set standards for competitive intelligence processes.
- Evolve the business model for competitive intelligence data collection and dissemination leveraging automation and AI in accordance with enterprise AI governance.
- Ensure business partners and agencies remain compliant with all required training, intellectual property activities, and corporate policies as well as industry guidelines for the appropriate collection and use of CI.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree (MA/MS/MBA/MPH or equivalent) in Science, Pharmacology, Economics, Finance, Biology, Chemistry, Research, Data Science, Marketing, or other relevant disciplines.
- At least ten years overall work experience in a related field.
- At least five years of relevant work experience in healthcare life sciences or consulting inclusive of competitive intelligence, clinical, pharmacy, sales, marketing, market research, data analysis, business development, or related areas.
- Minimum three years’ related experience in competitive intelligence, market research, or comparable insight & analytics function.
- Comprehensive understanding of key primary and secondary resources to capture intelligence, and the ability to analyze and translate scientific and commercial information into meaningful intelligence.
- Understanding of pharmaceutical development and commercialization process, global pharmaceutical market, and industry competitive dynamics.
- Analytical reasoning abilities, intellectual curiosity, strong business acumen.
- Demonstrated consulting skills including problem definition, hypothesis generation, data analysis, and value demonstration.
- Experience working with or in roles supporting Business Development or Licensing a plus.
- Ideal candidate will possess balance of scientific knowledge and business acumen.
- Preference for candidate with firsthand field-experience with primary competitive intelligence activities; knowledge and expertise in database search; and affinity for transformation and leveraging new technology, tools, and techniques.
Benefits
- Retirement savings plan
- Paid vacation and holiday time
- Paid caregiver/parental and medical leave
- Health benefits including medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage
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