Director Strategic Delivery & Growth (United States)

Job Overview:The Director level of SDG is an experienced leader within Strategic Delivery and Growth (SDG), expected to leverage their Research and Development experience, Therapeutic Area (TA) experience and operational study execution experience to sustainably grow and maintain a portfolio of innovative and profitable business. This includes early engagement conversations with clients focused on but not limited to Fortrea innovative operational delivery strategies; leading a cross functional team to design effective and differentiated strategies for operational execution; performing post award strategy oversight and redesign. 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 Fortrea. 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.Summary of Responsibilities:Have a strong background across pharmaceutical development, with the research and development know-how combined with an excellent understanding of the industry, market and clients’ needs.Able to present the cross enterprise medical, scientific and operational capabilities of the organization to clients.Contributes to the growth within Fortrea.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 Fortrea.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.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.Support Fortrea’s capability, visibility and position through development of appropriate publications and presentations at conferences, meetings and webinars, etc.Has a good understanding of the operational requirements to deliver against the agreed strategy in the post award space.Provides oversight of strategy implementation in the post award space, ensuring that the team understands the defined operational strategy.Uses established operational, financial and quality metrics and reporting dashboards to assess compliance to strategy. Remains in consultation with the team in the post award space until end of recruitment, and ensures ongoing. strategy assessments and modifications in line with the direction of the projectContributes to both quality control and risk assurance activities to ensure project ...