Senior Director, Head of Asia Pacific
Job details
Research Partnership (part of Inizio Advisory) is one of the world's largest pharma market research and consulting agencies with over 250 researchers, consultants, project managers and support staff. Our teams are located across the globe, in Europe (London, Lyon), North America (New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco) and Asia (Singapore, India). As individuals with diverse backgrounds, as a team with shared values, as professionals ready to reimagine health and life sciences—you can grow with us at a place that:
- Makes a difference to human health
- Shares values and celebrates progress
- Puts people at the centre of everything
- Development and execution of the vision and growth strategy for the Asia Pacific Custom Research business unit, in consultation and agreement with the RP CEO and supporting our global strategic priorities
- This may include a specific focus on supporting the development and growth of our offshoring activities for our global teams within Asia Pacific, e.g. via our hub in India
- Growing Research Partnership’s presence across the APAC region in accordance with overall company strategy
- Leading business development initiatives with potential clients across the region, both independently and in collaboration with Directors and Senior Directors in Europe and the US
- Managing and expanding the RP team based across Asia Pacific, including assessing performance, recruitment strategy and succession planning
- You will also play a leading role in delivering and retaining a major quantitative brand tracking project for a regional client
- Significant leadership experience in primary market research (qual and quant) within the healthcare industry
- Substantial regional experience within APAC
- Demonstrable success in growing a primary research client-base, with significant personal sales capabilities plus leadership over other commercial activities
- Experience driving growth and organization-wide revenue generation
- Strong team leadership skills with experience in mentoring and developing leaders and their teams
- Hands-on expertise with both qualitative and quantitative research techniques
- Comfortable with key P&L metrics and using business forecasting to drive investment decisions
- Experience working in a matrix management environment and able to prioritise across competing priorities and stakeholders
- 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 leadership role in our organization
- A comprehensive training and development programme, providing both structured and hands-on training in order for you to develop and build your career as a pharmaceutical market researcher
- A relaxed, non-bureaucratic, friendly working environment where employee performance is recognised and rewarded
- Social events - including team day out and end-of-year party, along with social events after office hours
- Fundraising and charity events – we do team volunteering locally at least once a year, and support Forever Angels, a children's charity whose aim is to care for abandoned babies in Tanzania, Africa
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