Director

Business Area: New Chemical Entities and Biopharmaceuticals

Location: Mountain View, CA

Position Code: DI1075

Position Description:

As a director, the successful applicant will lead, manage, and actively participate in client engagements, support practice development initiatives, and achieve continuous individual professional development.

Position Responsibilities:

• Provide responsive client service at a level of quality that sets the industry standard
• Achieve continuous individual professional development
• Serve a variety of emerging and industry-leading clients within the new chemical entities and biopharmaceuticals industry segments
• Generate important client engagements with significant pull-through revenues
• Manage teams of talented professionals and effectively utilize professional and support staff
• Understand and continuously strengthen our work processes and service products within the target practice area
• Effectively integrate PROFORMANT Knowledge Warehouse and PROFORMANT Financial Modeling Workbench systems into work processes and engagement deliverables
• Apply strategic, analytical, industry-specific, technical, and financial skills and knowledge as an active participant in client engagements
• Achieve individual top and bottom-line financial performance goals within the target practice area

Position Qualifications:

• Minimum 5 years successful professional services experience with a top firm (Big 5, leading strategy consultancies, investment and/or merchant banking with significant transaction experience, etc.)
• Immediate ability to manage client projects, an established network of industry contacts, and a proven aptitude for business development
• Advanced degree(s) in business, medicine, life sciences, and/or law from leading institutions (combined MD/MBA preferred)
• Minimum 3 years target industry experience in development and/or executive roles
• Documented ability to achieve continuous individual professional development
• Excellent presentation and communication (both oral and written) skills
• Excellent analytical, quantitative, financial modeling, and transactional knowledge and skills
• Industry-specific skills and knowledge of target industry segments, markets, products, product development processes, and product registration processes
• Must be available for 50% travel, at times with short notice
• Must be willing to work hours as needed to meet client needs and deadlines
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office 2000 applications