Vice President, Business Development

Vice President, Business Development

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Job title: Vice President – Commercial Team

Job Type: Permanent, full time

Reporting to: Senior Vice President – Commercial Team

Location: Home based, USA; or office-based, NYC; Yardley, PA; York, PA; or San Francisco

About Inizio Ignite:

Inizio Ignite is the global advisory partner for health and life sciences, encompassing connected expertise across Research Partnership, Putnam, Vynamic, and STEM. Guided by purpose, passion, and precision, we collaborate with clients to ignite impact, accelerate performance, and deliver lasting change for patients. By uniting strategy, insights, and innovation with a unique depth and breadth of expertise, we drive transformation and shape the future of health.

Our Research Partnership healthcare market research team provides research and insights to inform and power healthcare decisions. Serving a variety of clients across the lifecycle, our expertise includes data, research & insights (proprietary syndicated and custom research) and brand tracking (ATU). Proudly part of Inizio – the market-leading commercialization partner for health and life sciences. From early-stage development to loss of exclusivity, we simplify complexity, unlock value, and make collaboration seamless at every pivotal moment – supporting confident, insight-driven decisions that move innovation forward.

Our STEM team uses benchmarking through AI-enabled and evidence-based approaches to drive alignment resulting in accelerated performance. Serving clients across brand & commercial, Medical Affairs & sales, our expertise includes data, research & insights (proprietary benchmarking data), strategic brand alignment, and sales & MSL performance benchmarking. Proudly part of Inizio – the market-leading commercialization partner for health and life sciences. From early-stage development to loss of exclusivity, we simplify complexity, unlock value, and make collaboration seamless at every pivotal moment – supporting confident, insight-driven decisions that move innovation forward.

Core Responsibilities:

You will own, coordinate and execute the global business development strategy, plan and activities on designated global pharmaceutical and biotech accounts in order to meet Inizio Ignite RP and STEM sales and revenue targets.

You will work directly and indirectly coordinating and supporting all BD activities in partnership with the Inizio Ignite Innovation & Growth team to increase awareness, access, and sales for RP, STEM and Inizio for the accounts they are accountable for.

You will represent the customer within Inizio Insights, create, communicate, and execute a customer centric value proposition internally and externally to become a trusted partner.

You will partner with other SVPs, VPs and account managers across the Inizio Ignite RP and STEM teams to embed commercial best practices and drive key account growth initiatives in a collaborative fashion.

Job Role:

• Lead and co-ordinate business development activities within the assigned target client accounts, this includes winning new and repeat business, and expanding RP, STEM and Inizio business across new services and new geographies (breadth and depth).
• Take accountability for account targets and support delivery through coordination with global and regional delivery teams.
• The individual must develop strong relationships with key stakeholders within the target accounts, ensuring that a partnership is built that facilitates maintenance and growth of target accounts. Key external stakeholders range from senior functional heads such within sales, insights/business intelligence, marketing, SFE, medical excellence, global brand leads, global medical leaders through to CEOs
• Partnering with the operational account leadership to support critical service delivery deliverables including result presentations and action planning for future projects and services.
• Acting as a point of escalation for all customer stakeholders

Essential skills:

• Strong results orientation with a proven track record of driving strategic business development, both in new clients and in growing the account size (breadth and depth) within existing clients.
• Self-motivated, relishes new challenges in a dynamic environment and demonstrates an intense drive to generate superior outcomes.
• Analytical and problem-solving capability with an ability to think laterally and creatively.
• Capable and supportive team member, can adapt approach to colleagues according to personality and cultural differences, and can lead and influence colleagues who are not reports.
• Collaborative, can demonstrate a team before self-approach, knowing when to delegate and when to take ownership, to ensure the team benefits first.
• Exceptional project management and time management skills coupled with deep market and product understanding.
• Ability to work collaboratively at all levels and network effectively within the broader cross-functional Inizio matrix.
• Line management capabilities and experience of coaching successful mid-senior level business development and commercial professionals
• Confident and articulate verbal and written communicator, with an ability to foster productive relationships at senior management level.
• Demonstrates judgment, pragmatism and commercially astute approach to decision making and is also responsive to alternate views.
• Employs influence and tact to resolve issues, conflict and promote effective teamwork and supports innovation amongst team to meet objectives.
• Effective team, peer and cross functional team coach able to provide broader organisational support as required.
• An excellent communicator with exceptional presentation skills and influencing skills.

Experience and knowledge required:

• Detailed knowledge of the pharmaceutical market. This person needs to have an existing network of influential/senior pharma executives, be aware of what is happening in the pharma markets and up to speed with client developments, key launches, people changes, mergers and acquisitions etc.
• Detailed knowledge of primary market research techniques and how they can bring benefit to our clients/prospective clients. Ideally, also experience and knowledge of STEM's offerings.
• Successful experience dealing with senior level stakeholders in global pharma roles.
• Successful experience developing business on a consistent basis in a commercially focused role, ideally covering regional or global services.
• Successful experience managing accounts/client relationships to deliver to client expectations.

Ideal profile:

• You are proactive, dedicated, and enthusiastic
• You demonstrate a high level of strategic thinking and judgement, capable of identifying and developing commercial opportunities
• You are a collaborative leader who empowers your direct and indirect reports to deliver exceptional work, and to take the initiative and seize opportunities for growth
• You communicate ideas and issues in an effective, straightforward fashion
• You are highly motivated and are looking for an opportunity to step into a key, high profile role in our organization

Life at Inizio Ignite:

We love what we do and continuously strive for innovation and creativity. We believe everyone should continuously be learning and provide:

• A comprehensive training and development programme for all staff, from entry level apprentice to senior management
• A relaxed and friendly working environment
• Social events - including a summer day out and end-of-year party, along with regular social events after office hours

Inizio Ignite is an equal opportunity employer. Inizio Ignite will consider all qualified applicants for employment without discrimination on grounds of disability, sex or sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity leave status, race or national or ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, gender identity or re-assignment, marital or civil partnership status, protected veteran status (if applicable) or any other characteristic protected by law.

The base salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this position. This range may differ based on your experience and skill set, geographic location, and cost of living considerations. We consider compensation more than just a base salary – that's why we also offer an exceptional range of flexible benefits, personal support and tailored learning and development opportunities all designed to help you realize your full potential both in life and at work.

Compensation

$180,000 - $220,000 USD

Don't meet every job requirement? That's okay! Our company is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role, but your experience doesn't perfectly fit every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this role or others.