Director - Healthcare & Life Sciences

About 1Lattice:

1Lattice is a 360-degree business decision support platform with a tech-enabled services stack of data, people network, and custom research. Powered by advanced tech tools and unique data-gathering approaches, 1Lattice offers an integrated product suite to make decisions smartly, right from Inputs to Validation, Execution and Measurement. 1Lattice works with clients and partners globally, helping them solve a wide variety of business and organizational problems through actionable research-led insights.

About the role:

As a Director (D) in the Healthcare & Life Sciences vertical, you will have four key responsibilities (1) Driving business development. (2) Client management (3) Ensuring project delivery (4) Team management.

1. The foremost responsibility of this role is to drive business revenues and profitability. You will be expected to seamlessly own the existing clients for 1Lattice for repeat and continued business, as well as drive business targets through opening up new accounts with your own past networks, marketing activities, cold calling, and running project proposals and. Apart from business revenue targets, you will be responsible for the profitability of your projects, in terms of managing direct and indirect costs. You will also be responsible for further development / enhancement of product offerings and capabilities within 1Lattice.

2. This role will be expected to develop close connections and relationships with senior leaders in the industry. This will require playing a significant role in influencing their thinking, as well we identifying potential project leads / opportunities / proposals and driving them to closure. This will also involve high quality project delivery through your teams to ensure high client satisfaction and repeat business.

3. This position will lead and drive delivery teams of 10+ members, including mid-management members who will be responsible for project delivery, and junior levels for execution. This will involve supervising and guiding the research process and generating insights that help client make a business decision.

4. You will also play a very meaningful leadership role internally, and assume the leadership role for your team. You will support the 1Lattice culture by motivating your colleagues and helping the team members under you train and develop their skills, showcase their talents, make them feel part of the 1Lattice family, and overall helping them grow professionally. As such, you will be responsible for both their growth as well as overall happiness.

Roles and responsibilities:

· Ensuring that the revenue / business development and profitability targets are met and exceeded – through both repeat business from existing accounts and opening up new accounts.

· Driving business continuity with existing clients, ensuring repeat business from key accounts

· Driving sectoral marketing, industry visibility, representing the 1Lattice brand, driving the leads / opportunities / proposals and ensuring maximum conversions

· End to end ownership of project scoping and delivery by leading high impact teams, and ensuring overall client satisfaction and engagement.

· Driving thought leadership in projects and coming up with compelling approaches, frameworks, and solutions to client problems

· Managing team growth and satisfaction – be responsible for their success as well as build a strong team culture

· Play active role in recruitment and build project delivery teams in your vertical

Competencies and skills:

· Deep understanding of healthcare and life sciences domain - experience within a healthcare company is an added advantage.

· Proven experience in business research / consulting / data services, with minimum 10+ years of experience leading and managing teams in the Healthcare and Life Sciences industry.

· Strong and credible industry connects in the Healthcare and Life Sciences industry. industry, with ability to handle very senior conversations and open up new doors for business development, strong ability to understand client's needs and developing trusted relationships.

· Ability to create impactful proposals for specific projects with a tailored approach, and presenting to clients for maximum conversions.

· Demonstrated ability to execute/project manage large-scale projects from beginning to completion – having a strong orientation to planning work, defining scope and approach for assignments and driving work through teams with high efficiency

· Strong team management skills – building a strong team culture, driving high impact and efficiency, ensuring team growth and happiness.

· Strong analytical and problem solving skills - deriving insights from data and conversations.

· Excellent communication skills - both written (slide / text output) and verbal (client presentation)

Educational qualification and Certifications:

· Consistent track record of academic excellence.

· 12 yrs+ of experience in primary and secondary research and data projects is a must.

· Demonstration of leadership in educational and professional career.

· Very high drive and energy.