Business Development Director

**Company Description**
PrimeVigilance (part of Ergomed Group), a specialised mid-size pharmacovigilance service provider established in 2008. We are proud to have achieved global organic growth year after year, with staff based across Europe, North America and Asia all covering services within: Medical Information, Pharmacovigilance, Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance.

PrimeVigilance provides first class support to our small to large pharmaceutical and biotechnology partners maintaining long lasting relationships and has become one of the global leaders in its field. We cover all therapy areas including medical device.

We love investing in our staff by providing an excellent training and development platform. We value employee experience, well-being and mental health and we acknowledge that a healthy work life balance is a critical factor for employee satisfaction and in turn nurtures an environment from which a high-quality client service can be achieved.

Come and join us in this exciting journey to make a positive impact in patient’s lives.

Primevigilance is recruiting for an experience Business Development Director to expand our business in **APAC **region.

**Duties and responsibilities**
- Initiates, coordinates and develops strategic plans and sales strategies within a specified territory or accounts.
- Develop account strategies & implementation plans and expand through accounts
- Identify new markets and research new business opportunities, identifies likely sales points within a specified territory or accounts
- Collect critical information for proposal preparation and provide detailed input and leadership of the proposal process for each opportunity initiated
- Prepare and organize sponsor presentations
- Facilitate the preparedness of the team in attending any client meetings. For example, Capabilities meetings or Bid Defence Meetings (BDM)
- Coordinate and monitor any budget or contract negotiations, post award of any work, within a specified territory or accounts.
- Interact with operations, keeping track of study status for projects with sponsors and help coordinate change orders when notified of a change of scope by operations.
- Establish and maintain regular contact and an excellent rapport with future and current clients.
- Monitor and track competitor CRO activities
- Plan and attend major industrial events and tradeshows

**Qualifications**
- Considerable CRO sales experience with strong negotiation and analytical skills
- An established network of decision makers within Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology companies and a proven track record of identifying and securing profitable service contracts.
- Awareness of trends and government policies and regulations in the clinical trials area of Ergomed Group countries
- Excellent communication skills and team leadership capabilities consistent with influencing and driving multiple stakeholders towards meeting the customer’s needs.
- Strong and effective presentation skills; ability to convincingly present features and benefits of service to clients
- Excellent organisational, planning and multitasking skills, as well as a predisposition to entrepreneurship, results and customer focus
- Ability to travel according to the needs of the business development strategy

**Additional Information**
We prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion by creating an equal opportunities workplace and a human-centric environment where people of all cultural backgrounds, genders and ages can contribute and grow.

To succeed we must work together with a human first approach. Why? because our people are our greatest strength leading to our continued success on improving the lives of those around us.

We offer:

- Training and career development opportunities internally
- Strong emphasis on personal and professional growth
- Friendly, supportive working environment
- Opportunity to work with colleagues based all over the world, with English as the company language

Our core values are key to how we operate, and if you feel they resonate with you then Ergomed is a great company to join

Quality

Integrity & Trust

Drive & Passion

Agility & Responsiveness

Belonging

Collaborative Partnerships