ICON plc

Senior Account Executive

ICON plc$120K — $150K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience required
  • 5+ years of selling in CRO industry to biotech clients
  • Must reside on the West Coast
  • Proven track record of closing multi-year, multi-million dollar deals
  • Fluent in English, both written and spoken

Responsibilities

  • Implement annual sales plan to meet specific territory quotas
  • Prospect leads for new RFPs and opportunities
  • Work cross-functionally to assemble therapeutic expert teams
  • Organize bid defense preparation meetings and calls
  • Update opportunities and client interactions in SalesForce
  • Represent ICON at industry meetings and conferences
  • Report regularly on pending, lost, and awarded opportunities

Benefits

  • Comprehensive total rewards package for health and wellbeing
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Retirement and pension plans
  • Life assurance and disability coverage
  • Employee assistance programs
  • Learning and development opportunities through structured training
Full Job Description
Senior Director, Business Development - Remote, US

We are currently seeking a Senior Director of Business Development to join our diverse and dynamic team. As a Senior Director of Business Development at ICON, you will play a pivotal role in driving strategic growth initiatives, interpreting complex medical data, and contributing to the advancement of innovative treatments and therapies.

What You Will Be Doing:

You will be responsible for implementing an annual sales plan to achieve specific territory sales quotas and achieving/exceeding those targets on an annual basis. This role will be heavily focused on prospecting leads for new RFPs. You will work cross functionally within a variety of ICON business units to assemble the best team of therapeutic experts to present at bid defenses and effectively position ICON to compete for new business awards. This will include organizing bid defense prep meetings and calls with the team. You will be responsible for updating new opportunities and tracking client interactions in SalesForce.

In addition:
  • Represent ICON at industry meetings and conferences
  • Review RFPs cross-functionally
  • Regular reporting on pending, lost and awarded opportunities
  • Tracking all meeting, prospecting activity and opportunity status within SalesForce.com
  • Work with our Inside Sales team to help prospect your region and generate client meetings


What You Need to Have:
  • Undergraduate degree from an accredited institution or their international equivalents or equivalent work experience required
  • 5+ years of selling within the CRO industry to biotech clients
  • Located on the West Coast
  • Recent track record of closing multi-year and multi-million dollar deals.
  • Read, write and speak English


Preferred Qualification:
  • 7+ years of selling within the CRO industry
  • Advanced degree (M.S. or M.B.A)


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Employment with ICON is contingent upon having the legal right to work in the country where the role is based.

Rewards & Benefits

ICON offers a competitive and comprehensive total rewards package designed to support your health, wellbeing, and career development.

Benefits may include:
  • Competitive base salary and performance related incentives
  • Health and wellbeing programmes including medical, dental, and vision coverage where applicable
  • Retirement and pension plans
  • Life assurance and disability coverage
  • Employee assistance programmes and wellbeing resources
  • Learning and development opportunities through structured training and career pathways


Benefits may vary depending on role and location.

Visit our careers site to read more about the benefits ICON offers.

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About ICON plc

ICON plc is a global provider of drug development and commercialisation services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. The company specialises in the strategic development, management and analysis of programs that support clinical development. ICON has approximately 15700 employees in 40 countries. The company was founded in Dublin, Ireland in 1990 and is headquartered in Leopardstown, Dublin. ICON has been publicly traded on the NASDAQ since 1998.
Learn more about ICON plc
Size
39,300 employees
Market Cap
$16.2 billion
Industry
Net Income
$332.3 million
Founded
2017
5 Year Trend
+26.9%
Revenue
$2.7 billion
NASDAQ

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