Director

Overview

Job Title: DirectorReports to: Vice PresidentDepartment: Pharmaceutical Distribution PRIMARY PURPOSE OF POSITION:Archbow Consulting is seeking an individual with significant, real-world, business development, operations and/or management experience in pharmaceutical wholesale distribution, third-party logistics and/or specialty distribution to leverage their industry expertise in a consultant capacity to support pharmaceutical and biotech companies. The Director will be responsible for interfacing with clients to manage distribution team projects, provide subject matter expertise, offer program support to stakeholders and Archbow leadership, and create deliverables for our clients. This position will be remote.

Candidate must be able to demonstrate past experience working directly with pharmaceutical companies to launch new drugs, manage existing programs, or provide commercial optimization services. Job requires an individual who can move fluidly between the needs of several accounts using the following skills and tactics to bring value to their client base. Familiarity with Microsoft Excel functions, working with large datasets, and strong analytic skills preferred.MAJOR DUTIES OF POSITION:

• Manage the day-to-day relationship with assigned pharmaceutical customers including project management activities, and provision of on-going communications and readout deliverables with key stakeholders.
• Provide subject matter expertise related to past industry experience during projects as appropriate. This could transpire in a variety of ways including specialty distributor, third party logistics, and/or specialty pharmacy network selection, program optimization, SOP creation, RFP management and recommendations, etc.
• Perform market research and data analysis as needed to meet project goals and to stay abreast of industry trends and changes for expansion of individual subject matter expertise.
• Individual illustrates ability to resolve and/or escalate project/client issues in a timely fashion.
• Support creation of high-quality client deliverables, including executive level updates, meeting facilitation decks, project status reports, vendor reports, project trackers, meeting minutes, final recommendations, and contract redlines.
• Provide initial redline review of distribution and third-party logistics agreements, providing notes and comments to Vice President

• Demonstrate the ability to work autonomously with minimal supervision while consistently delivering high-quality results within deadlines

• Write and promote at least one strategic article annually for the company website
• Exercise sound judgement and oversight to ensure integrity and compliance with company policies in all activities and communications while fostering Archbow core values and leadership behaviors.

KEY COMPETENCIES REQUIRED:

• Action Oriented: Proactively identifies appropriate action items and the ability to complete action items efficiently and effectively within scheduled timeframes.
• Collaborative: Leads workstreams within a project and illustrates the ability to build partnerships with team members & external partners and works collaboratively with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Communicates Effectively: Ability to communicate to internal and external stakeholders at the same level of quality. Demonstrates structured thought and communication processes to convey a clear message for the unique needs of each project.
• Customer Focus: Ability to understand the client, continue to develop deeper insights and identify opportunities that benefit the customer and the organization.
• Decision Quality: Recognizing that there are a variety of solutions and appropriately gathers broader perspectives to incorporate into deliverables
• Drives Results: Identifies and proactively removes obstacles to complete deliverables on-time and with high quality
• Instills Trust: Proven success in delivering high quality results
• Manages Ambiguity: Ability to effectively lead workstreams/deliverables with uncertainty and ambiguity yet advancing the deliverable forward to meet project expectations.
• Nimble Learning: Demonstrates on the job/in the moment learning and applies new knowledge to the situation and can pivot as needed
• Resourcefulness: Within the project/deliverables, orchestrates multiple activities simultaneously to accomplish a goal
• Self-Development: Shows a personal commitment and takes action to continuously improve skills as it pertains to both work processes and project deliverables

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS REQUIRED:

• Bachelor’s Degree required in Logistics, Marketing, Business or similar preferred fro