Managing Director

Updated: September 13, 2024
Location: London, ENG, United Kingdom
Job ID: 5098

You're driven, resourceful, and above all else - remarkably smart.

In this role, you will drive meaningful commercial success by securing profitable business, actively harvesting accounts, creating leads, and ensuring accurate project forecasting and pricing. The Managing Director will contribute to setting business direction, strategy, and priorities and take ownership for driving the overall growth and scalability of the Strategy, Product and Portfolio Consulting business. You will:

1. Build positive working relationships with clients, consulting staff, managers, leadership, and internal support teams.
2. Achieve commercial success by actively harvesting accounts and creating leads at new accounts, soliciting support from other business units to close deals, and securing profitable business.
3. Develop and lead, independently, a large client book of business.
4. Achieve billable utilization, lead book of business, and sales targets, while collaborating with others to attain overall business objectives and metrics.
5. Lead and develop client relationships and ensure the delivery of well-structured projects that exceed client expectations. Be personally responsible for the design, efficiency, and outcomes related to client projects. Take accountability for issues that may arise and rectify those issues. Deliver projects on time and on budget.

Minimum Requirements:

1. MBA or a graduate degree in a life sciences field.
2. Leading Commercial / Strategic Consulting, with a focus on Commercial Strategy and product launch.
3. Known authority in marketing, portfolio and product valuation, market research and commercial strategy; able to leverage external network to improve profitable revenues and market positioning.
4. Recent experience working with large national and global pharmaceutical / biotech accounts.

Desired Requirements:

1. Strong and demonstrable track record of successful life science consulting practice building.
2. A strong history of successfully selling, delivering and growing consulting revenues.

At Syneos Health, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. At times, we will consider transferable skills from previous roles.

Why Syneos Health? Here, you're a part of the big picture. You will collaborate with colleagues across clinical and commercial disciplines to guide premarket development through post-market commercial strategy. Every project is a chance to solve a new challenge, learn from your colleagues, and advance your career. The diversification and breadth of our new and existing partnerships create a multitude of career paths and employment opportunities. Join our game-changing, global company dedicated to creating better, smarter, faster ways to get biopharmaceutical therapies to patients. Experience the thrill of knowing that your everyday efforts are contributing to improving patients' lives around the world.

Syneos Health companies are affirmative action/equal opportunity employers (Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disabled).

Discover what our more than 29,000 employees already know: work here matters everywhere. We work hard and smart, all in the name of getting much-needed therapies to those who need them most. A career with Syneos Health means your everyday work improves patients' lives around the world.

Syneos Health is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities. To learn more about how we are shortening the distance from lab to life, visit

Syneos Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, marital status, ethnicity, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status and will not be discriminated against. If you are an individual with a disability who requires reasonable accommodation to complete any part of our application process, including the use of this website, please contact us at: Email: email protected One of our staff members will work with you to provide alternate means to submit your application.