SciPro Global is retained on an executive search for a leading global biomedical company looking for a Vice President, Strategy & Scientific Excellence.
They are building the most advanced cloud computing platform to realize the promise of precision medicine. The team and products enable scientists to analyze petabyte-scale molecular and health data faster and more efficiently than ever to identify new therapeutic targets, improve diagnostics and accelerate understanding of the basic underpinnings of health and disease. They are a global company with roughly 300 employees. This is a fully remote position.
This role reports into the Chief Scientific Officer, and you will play a critical role in setting the long-term vision and direction of their products and ensure scientific rigor is deeply integrated throughout their products. As the VP, you will manage two functions within the organization: 1. Strategy Management (responsible for long term strategy roadmap) and 2. Scientific Center of Excellence (responsible for SME scientific motivated demonstrations of their products). Therefore, prior experience managing a team and demonstrated leadership skills are necessary to be successful in this role as a key responsibility will be to onboard and hire several staff in the next 12 months. Additional skills required:
- Experience implementing strategies at scale and have scientific expertise to be effective in this role
- Advanced degree (PhD/ MD / MBA) and/or 10+ years experience in relevant scientific field
- Demonstrated experience recruiting, training, retaining and maximizing the productivity of high functioning technical teams during times of organizational growth
- 8+ years proven experience ideating, iterating and executing significant corporate strategies leading to accelerated revenue growth and innovation
- Proven track record of leading end-to-end product initiatives
- Ability to manage uncertainty, demonstrate good judgment and incorporate data into decisions
This is an exciting opportunity to change the course of precision medicine and make a dramatic impact to leading companies focusing on helping patients, by advancing their science much faster. You will be incorporating scientific expertise and leading cutting-edge findings in both public and private sectors and identify data systems which address interesting and hard problems that weren't even considered in the industry 5 years ago.
If you're interested in learning more about this exciting opportunity, please apply with an updated CV and we will be in touch!
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