Associate Director, Operations, Strategy & Planning

<h2>Job Overview:</h2><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">The Associate Director level of OS&P is an experienced leader across multiple Therapeutic Area (TA) Centre of Excellence, expected to leverage their Research and Development experience from operational study execution to sustainably grow a portfolio of innovative and profitable business. This includes orchestrating through a cross functional team the design of effective and differentiated strategies for operational execution with clients and internal experts in a therapeutic area within the CDCS, Phase I-IV business. As a key leader/Subject Matter Expert (SME) within the TA, they are expected to proactively contribute to cross enterprise business opportunities, leveraging their expertise to aid the growth of the integrated business across Covance and LabCorp. Due to the nature of this role, the position will be placed either in Europe or US, and selection will be based on capabilities and experience. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">They are expected to establish and develop strong client relationships, and be seen as an industry leader internally by colleagues and peers and externally by the client base.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></p><ol><li><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> Essential Job Duties: </span></strong></li></ol><p style="margin: 0px;"><u><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"> </span></u></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><u><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Commercial Acumen</span></u></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"> </span></p><ul style="margin-top: 0in;"><li><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Have a strong background across pharmaceutical development, with the Research & Development know-how combined with an excellent understanding of the industry, market and clients’ needs</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Able to present the cross enterprise medical, scientific and operational capabilities of the Covance/LabCorp organization to clients </span></li><li><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Contributes to the growth within the Therapeutic Area</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Designs and develops winning trial strategies and integrated solutions that result in clear differentiation in the marketplace, higher win rate, and a more profitable portfolio of business in the TA</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Owns and internally advocates for client needs, expectations and satisfaction; identifies, develops and fosters new and existing client relationships at senior operational levels with clients, KOLs, Vendor Partners etc., in partnership with operational colleagues, guiding teams in delivering to and establish/maintain effective client relationships</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Leads high quality, strategically innovative price competitive end-to-end business development strategies, including RFI response, proposal development, bid defense preparation and be an ambassador of the Company</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Support Covance’s capability, visibility and position through development of appropriate publications and presentations at conferences, meetings and webinars etc.</span></li></ul><p style="margin: 0px;"><u><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></u></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><u><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Leadership:</span></u></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><u><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></u></p><ul style="margin-top: 0in;"><li><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Engages with Covance’s leadership to help drive and implement TA-specific initiatives which aim to improve performance of the business, including cross TA and functional integrated opportunities, to grow and expand the Therapeutic Area</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Help to define and implement the TA vision and strategy; translate this into key initiatives and priorities; develop and deliver against TA operating plans & project plans; able to achieve results in a global, virtual and complex environment; track and measures progress</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Partner with peers ensuring consistency (quality, standards, policies, processes and practices) across the portfolio in the TA and across TAs</span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Leads by Example in building and sustaining a scalable organization; creates a forward looking culture of ownership and accountability; is self-aware and fosters a continuous learning environment</span></li></ul><ul style="margin-top: 0in;"><li><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Effectively leads and/or coordinates in a global environment; sets clear expectations for colleagues; leverages experience for success; consistently communicates and connects</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Contributes to strengthening and deepening the talent bench</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></li></ul><p style="margin: 0px;"><u><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Subject Matter Expertise:</span></u></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></p><ul style="margin-top: 0in;"><li><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Contributes to the TA commercial and scientific leadership and direction, leveraging expertise from other functions as required to ensure the successful growth and differentiation in the global marketplace</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Ensures appropriate development and delivery of TA & program-specific training</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Participates in training opportunities to advance knowledge of TA, drug development, GCP etc.</span></li></ul><ol><li><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> Principal Contacts and Scope of Communications</span></strong></li></ol><p style="margin: 0px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></strong></p><ul><li style="margin-left: .25in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Internal – Global Leadership Team (GLT), Functional Leaders, Other Covance Business Leaders (Central Lab Services (CLS), Early Development (ED)) </span></li><li style="margin-left: .25in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">External – Clients (Strategic, Key Alliance, Transactional), Vendor(s) Partners, Key Opinion Leaders (KOL) </span></li></ul><p style="margin: 0px;"><em><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></em></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><em><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Indicate the type of communication that will be expected in this role.  Check the audience and frequency of the communication.  The types of communication a role is responsible for is another indicator of the overall impact the role has on the success of the business.</span></em></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><em><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></em></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Please check only one category</span></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><em><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></em></p><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><tbody><tr><td style="width: 150.0pt; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" width="190"><p style="margin: 0px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Type of Communication</span></strong></p></td><td style="width: 150.0pt; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" width="186"><p style="margin: 0px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">            Audience</span></strong></p></td><td style="width: 150.0pt; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" width="189"><p style="margin: 0px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">                Frequency </span></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width: 150.0pt; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" width="190"><p style="margin: 0px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Strategic </span></strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">– Manage communications of great importance having long term implications</span></p></td><td style="width: 150.0pt; border-top: none; border-left: none; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" width="186"><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">__X__ Internal</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">__X__ External</span></p></td><td style="width: 150.0pt; border-top: none; border-left: none; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" width="189"><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">___X_ Daily</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">____ Weekly</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">___    Monthly</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">_____Annually</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width: 150.0pt; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" width="190"><p style="margin: 0px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Negotiate</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> – Come to agreement through discussion and compromise – short to medium impact</span></p></td><td style="width: 150.0pt; border-top: none; border-left: none; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" width="186"><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">__X__ Internal</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">__X__ External</span></p></td><td style="width: 150.0pt; border-top: none; border-left: none; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" width="189"><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">__X__ Daily</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">___ _ Weekly</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">_____ Monthly</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">_____ Annually</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width: 150.0pt; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" width="190"><p style="margin: 0px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Influence</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> – Effect change where persuasion is required – short term impact</span></p></td><td style="width: 150.0pt; border-top: none; border-left: none; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" width="186"><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">__X__ Internal</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">__X__ External</span></p></td><td style="width: 150.0pt; border-top: none; border-left: none; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" width="189"><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">__X__ Daily</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">____ Weekly</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">_____ Monthly</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">_____ Annually</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width: 150.0pt; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" width="190"><p style="margin: 0px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Convey – </span></strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Communicate information: could be a statement, suggestion, gesture or appearance</span></p></td><td style="width: 150.0pt; border-top: none; border-left: none; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" width="186"><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">__X__ Internal</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">__X__ External</span></p></td><td style="width: 150.0pt; border-top: none; border-left: none; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" width="189"><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">__X__ Daily</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">_____ Weekly</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">_____ Monthly</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">_____ Annually</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><h2>Education/Qualifications:</h2><ul style="margin-top: 0in;"><li><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Bachelor’s degree required.</span></strong></li><li><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Advance degree, PhD and/or MBA preferred</span></li></ul><h2>Experience:</h2><h2>Minimum Required:</h2><ul><li><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Bachelor’s degree required.</span></strong></li></ul><ul style="margin-top: 0in;"><li><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Advance degree, PhD and/or MBA preferred</span></li><li><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">5 or more years of Research & development and clinical research experience (pharmaceutical or biotech and CRO), preferably including 3 or more years in Drug Delivery Project Management</span></li><li><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Experience with client relationships and understanding of business development </span></li><li><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Demonstrated vision, strategy and growth experience</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Abilities to review/analyze relevant data so as to build evidence-based clinical trial strategies</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Strong networking abilities and an ability/willingness to work with individuals across the globe</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Strong communication, planning & organizational skills</span></li><li><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Financial acumen in understanding and effectively contributing to a competitive study or Program strategy which is profitable</span></li></ul><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></p>