Datavant

Strategic Engagement Lead, Life Sciences

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

Qualifications

  • 7+ years' experience in healthcare technology and customer-facing roles
  • Proven ability to build trust-based relationships with customer stakeholders
  • Experienced strategic program and project manager with a client-centric approach
  • Skilled in expanding relationships through effective rapport-building
  • Demonstrated ownership of complex, high-value customer accounts
  • Strategic thinker who connects trends to shape value propositions
  • Effective communication skills with empathy for internal and external stakeholders

Responsibilities

  • Own account and value management for a portfolio of up to 15 biopharma accounts
  • Lead with curiosity to understand customers' goals and strategies
  • Excel in program management, balancing analysis with execution speed
  • Influence customer value through adoption, satisfaction, and health scores
  • Thrive in ambiguity, driving clarity and scalability for customers
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to inform product and sales strategies
  • Adopt a self-service-first approach to problem-solving
  • Communicate effectively to maintain good relationships internally and externally
  • Foster a company culture of customer-centricity

Benefits

  • Comprehensive total rewards strategy for high-performance contribution
  • Opportunities for additional variable compensation based on performance
  • Work within a high-growth environment in health technology
  • Employee engagement in transforming healthcare through data logistics
  • Access to learning and growth opportunities within the organization
Full Job Description
What We're Looking For

We are looking for an experienced Strategic Engagement Lead who thrives in a fast-paced environment. Strategic Engagement is the value engine of Datavant Life Sciences. We are accountable for driving meaningful, measurable outcomes for our customers by aligning our products and services with their strategic objectives-maximizing value, accelerating time to patient and business impact, and fostering long-term, expansive relationships. As such, we need an experienced relationship management individual who can drive success for our customers.

This role includes responsibilities for commercial outcomes (e.g., value realization, customer satisfaction, renewals, etc.) and post-sale activities (e.g., delivery, adoption, advocacy, retention, etc.).

What You Will Do
  • Own account management and value management for a dedicated account portfolio of up to 15 accounts in our biopharma segment, with a special focus on end-to-end acceleration of value within your portfolio.
  • Lead with curiosity and dive deep into learning and understanding the goals and strategies of our customers and how our solutions and products support those goals
  • Excel in advanced program management and decision-making, balancing thoughtful analysis with speed to execution, appropriately prioritizing, and knowing when and how to escalate complex edge cases effectively
  • Influence future lifetime value through higher product adoption, customer satisfaction and overall health scores
  • Thrive in a fast-paced, continuous improvement environment, embracing gray areas and ambiguity, while seeking to drive clarity and scalability for your customers and the business
  • Work effectively with your cross-functional partners - surfacing insights that influence product and sales strategies across account teams for your portfolio accounts.
  • Take a self-service-first approach to problem solving and navigating questions internally and externally
  • Be a proven communicator and presenter with a commitment to maintaining good internal and external relationships through passion, empathy, and hard work
  • Help create a company-wide culture of customer-centricity

What You Need to Succeed
  • 7+ years experience in healthcare technology and customer facing roles (required)
  • Proven ability to build deep, trust-based relationships with customer stakeholders
  • Seasoned strategic program and project manager focused on connect the dots thinking that puts client value at the center of everything
  • Skilled at expanding relationships beyond direct contacts through rapport-building
  • Demonstrated ownership of complex, high-value customer accounts
  • Strategic thinker who connects cross-customer trends to shape value propositions.
  • Effective and empathetic internal and external communication
  • Previous experiencing working in one or more of the following areas (required):
    • Experience working within RWD health analytic companies, CROs, or systems integrators in the healthcare sector
    • Application of RWD and RWE in the pharmaceutical and life sciences space
    • Understanding of drug development and/or clinical trials
  • Living within commutable distance to our office in New York City, NY and able to commute to the office and to client sites periodically

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At Datavant our total rewards strategy powers a high-growth, high-performance, health technology company that rewards our employees for transforming health care through creating industry-defining data logistics products and services.

The range posted is for a given job title, which can include multiple levels. Individual rates for the same job title may differ based on their level, responsibilities, skills, and experience for a specific job. This role is eligible for additional variable compensation.

The estimated base salary range (not including variable pay) for this role is:

$120,000-$150,000 USD

About Datavant

Datavant is a healthcare technology company that specializes in connecting and standardizing healthcare data from various sources. The company's products are used to improve patient care, accelerate drug development, and enhance clinical research. Datavant's platform, called the Datavant Platform, uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to identify and link patient data across different sources while maintaining patient privacy. The company was founded in 2017 by Travis May and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Learn more about Datavant
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100 employees
Industry
Founded
2017

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