Executive Director, Strategic Delivery & Growth

The Executive Director is a senior and experienced leader within Global Clinical Development and is expected to leverage that experience to aid a team to grow a portfolio of innovative and profitable business by overseeing the design of effective and differentiated strategies for operational delivery with clients and internal experts. As such the Executive Director is expected to establish and grow best practices to ensure proposal strategies maximize Fortreas differentiation leverage cross functional input across the Fortrea enterprise be an effective line and team manager and engage as a leader and subject matter expert in relevant process improvements and change management activities across the organization.

Summary of Responsibilities:

Commercial Acumen:

• Has a deep understanding of the industry market and our clients and presents Fortreas medical scientific and operational capabilities to clients. Leads business growth through the design and development of innovative winning trial solutions that result in a growing profitable portfolio of rare diseases and pediatrics business across the Therapeutic Areas.
• Builds and strengthens senior relationships across pharma biotech KOLs investigators sites academic collaborators advocacy groups and strategic partners using these networks to open doors shape opportunities and strengthen Fortreas market position.
• Leads high quality end-to-end business development strategies including RFI response proposal development bid defense preparation and presentations.
• Markets and supports Fortreas capability visibility and position through publications and presentations at conferences meetings and webinars etc.

Leadership:

• Leads development and execution of the GenMed strategic roadmap and shapes therapeutic area growth strategies through Growth Councils strategic account planning client engagement and cross-functional leadership.
• Provides strategic insight and constructive challenge to the GenMed Leadership Team translating business intelligence market trends and organisational priorities into actionable plans. Establishes governance scorecards and strategic performance measures to monitor progress and accountability.
• Sponsors strategic partnerships across Commercial Medical Delivery and Functional Leadership ensuring alignment clear accountability and consistent execution across GenMed.
• Builds and evolves a high-performing SDG capability with clear roles decision rights expectations and accountability. Leads through others protects strategic capacity and delegates to build judgement ownership and future leadership strength.
• Provides strategic direction prioritisation coaching and oversight across the GenMed SDG team and broader stakeholder network in a global complex and matrixed environment.
• Leads workforce and organisational planning to ensure GenMed has the talent capabilities and leadership capacity required to support future growth.
• Attracts selects on-boards develops and retains high performing talent; strengthens and deepens talent bench and succession.
• All other duties as needed or assigned.

People Responsibilities:

• 0-10 Direct Reports.
• 10-50 Indirect Reports.

Operational Leadership and Financial Acumen:

• Partners with Delivery Feasibility Recruitment and Engagement Medical Commercial and functional leaders to ensure strategies are evidence-based commercially sound and operationally executable.
• Leads portfolio growth through clear therapeutic choices early client engagement differentiated opportunity strategies and disciplined execution across priority pursuits.
• Contributes to GenMed growth and financial objectives by ensuring strategies budgets and deal terms are competitive executable and aligned with client needs.

Subject Matter Expertise:

• Provides commercial operational medical and scientific leadership across GenMed connecting relevant expertise to strengthen therapeutic strategy and client positioning.
• Serves as a senior global contact for internal leaders clients KOLs and strategic partners on GenMed strategy with particular credibility in obesity metabolic disease and/or immunology and inflammation.
• Ensures SDG capability and development needs are identified and addressed through coaching targeted development and succession planning.
• Maintains current knowledge of relevant science sponsor pipelines competitive dynamics drug development and clinical delivery.

Qualifications (Minimum Required):

• Bachelors degree required.
• Advance degree APRN MPH PhD and/or MBA preferred.
• Fortrea may consider relevant and equivalent experience in lieu of educational requirements.

Experience (Minimum Required):

• 15 or more years of Research and Development and clinical research experience (pharmaceutical or biotech and CRO) preferably including 3 or more years leading cross functional full development programs from concept inception to defining the operational strategy for delivery of the clinical trials in respective Therapeutic Area.
• 5 or more years global leadership experience in a complex virtual and matrixed environment including leading through others building organisational capability and strengthening succession.
• Established senior client relationships and a strong external network across pharma biotech and the relevant therapeutic ecosystem.
• Demonstrated success translating market intelligence relationships and therapeutic strategy into differentiated positioning growth opportunities and commercial outcomes.
• Financial acumen (P and L budget forecast resources etc.)

Physical Demands/Work Environment:

• Standard office and/or home office based working conditions.
• Fortrea issued cellphone/mobile device.
• Will involve out of normal office hours as required by the role.
• Global Travel required 30-50% of the time with 80% of that time requiring an overnight stay.

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