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The Role
Lead global commercial strategy and market expansion for Veeva QualityOne LIMS across food and beverage, CPG, and chemical ingredient industries. Engage customers, support enterprise deals, develop messaging, enable sales teams, analyze competitors, influence the product roadmap, and build industry thought leadership. The role requires deep laboratory informatics expertise, FMCG supply chain experience, executive communication skills, and up to 40% travel.
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Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history, we surpassed $3B in revenue in our last fiscal year with extensive growth potential ahead.
At the heart of Veeva are our values: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed. We're not just any public company – we made history in 2021 by becoming a public benefit corporation (PBC), legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors.
As a Work Anywhere company, we support your flexibility to work from home or in the office, so you can thrive in your ideal environment.
Join us in transforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities.
Veeva Systems has built the first modern cloud LIMS system, and we are hiring a Director of LIMS Strategy, QualityOne, to accelerate our growth across global accounts in the Food & Beverage, Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), and Chemical Ingredients industries.
In this high-impact role, you will architect and execute the commercial strategy for our LIMS product line within these target sectors. You will act as the ultimate bridge between sales, marketing, product, and services, unifying them into a cohesive market vision while developing and personally delivering key messaging, training sales teams, and establishing industry thought leadership.
We are seeking a visionary leader with deep expertise in laboratory informatics, strong market intuition, and relevant experience in the Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) supply chain who can seamlessly pivot from high-level strategy to hands-on, day-to-day execution.
What You'll Do
- Drive Market Entry: Own the growth and market penetration of Veeva LIMS for QualityOne across target FMCG and their supply chain sectors
- Act as a Commercial Leader: Operate in a high-visibility, customer-facing commercial capacity to drive positive outcomes for both customers and Veeva
- Champion Thought Leadership: Serve as an industry evangelist by presenting at major conferences, leading webinars, and authoring content for industry publications
- Discovery & Workshops: Lead customer discovery sessions to uncover pain points, define desired benefits, and co-create solutions powered by Veeva LIMS
- Deliver High-Impact Presentations: Support sales in creating and delivering compelling presentations to prospects, active customers, and executive stakeholders
- Support Deals: Help prospective customers build their business cases to justify investments and accelerate the sales cycle. Support sales in deal strategy, pricing, and proposals
- Analyze the Competition: Conduct ongoing competitive analysis and develop tactical strategies and materials to win against competitors
- Influence Product Roadmap: Provide vital business and technology guidance to the product team to shape new or enhanced features in laboratory informatics software
- Enable Field Teams: Provide strategic direction and messaging to field-facing teams while building strong relationships with executive leadership
- Coordinate the Customer Lifecycle: Align and coordinate resources across the entire customer journey, from initial sales to final delivery and beyond
- Build Communities: Engage deeply with communities of practice and manage relationships with both internal and external stakeholders and partners
Market Expansion & Growth
Customer Engagement & Deal Strategy
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Strategy
Requirements
- Informatics Background: 8+ years of experience growing and scaling a technology offering at a laboratory informatics software vendor and/or a laboratory informatics consulting firm
- Industry Alignment: Proven track record working with Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), supply chain companies, or closely related industries
- Executive Presence: Proven ability to hold meaningful, strategic conversations with Heads of Quality, QC, and IT leaders regarding software applications and modernization
- Innovation & Problem Solving: Demonstrated success innovating across complex business processes and technical solutions using critical thinking
- Elite Communication: Exceptional verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
- High-Impact Presenter: Dynamic presentation skills with the ability to be clear, concise, convincing, confident, and credible to any audience
- Relationship Builder: Strong interpersonal skills with a genuine passion for collaborating and working closely with people
- Self-Starter Mentality: Driven and highly motivated leader who is comfortable taking initiative and working independently.
- Execution Excellence: Detail-oriented with a strong, self-imposed standard of quality, diligence, and a hard-working "want to win" attitude.
- Travel Flexibility: Ability and willingness to travel up to 40% for customer meetings and presentations.
Experience & Technical Domain Knowledge
Communication & Influence
Drive & Execution
Nice to Have
- Quality & Manufacturing Domain Expertise: Industry experience spanning Quality Control (QC), GxP quality content, training management, quality systems processes, or manufacturing
- Commercial Leadership: Proven experience leading or guiding global sales teams to aggressively pursue and close complex enterprise opportunities
- Executive Relationship Management: Seasoned background in establishing, expanding, and maintaining trusted partnerships with C-suite and executive-level stakeholders
- Established Authority: Published thought leadership pieces, whitepapers, or articles within the laboratory informatics domain
Interviewing with Veeva
- Follow the application process and submit your resume.
- If moving to the interview stage, our process is as follows:
- A conversation with the hiring manager
- A personality assessment
- A practical case exercise
- A final conversation with our group's Senior Leader
- Once all interviews are complete, the manager will be in touch with a final decision.
We value your time and believe in a transparent hiring process. Here is the process you can expect.
Perks & Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance
- Flexible PTO and company paid holidays
- Retirement programs
- 1% charitable giving program
Compensation
- Base pay: $125,000 - $300,000
- The salary range listed here has been provided to comply with local regulations and represents a potential base salary range for this role. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range above or below, depending on experience and location. We look at compensation for each individual and base our offer on your unique qualifications, experience, and expected contributions. This position may also be eligible for other types of compensation in addition to base salary, such as variable bonus and/or stock bonus.
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Veeva’s headquarters is located in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in more than 15 countries around the world.
Veeva is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status, protected genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristics protected by local laws, regulations, or ordinances. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need when applying for a role or in our recruitment process, please contact us at [email protected].
Skills Required
- 8+ years of experience growing and scaling technology offerings at a laboratory informatics software vendor or consulting firm
- Experience working with FMCG, supply chain companies, or closely related industries
- Ability to conduct strategic conversations with Heads of Quality, QC, and IT leaders
- Demonstrated innovation and critical thinking across complex business processes and technical solutions
- Exceptional verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
- Strong presentation skills for clear, convincing, and credible communication to varied audiences
- Strong relationship-building and collaboration skills
- Self-starter able to work independently and take initiative
- Detail-oriented, diligent, highly motivated, and execution-focused
- Ability and willingness to travel up to 40%
- Quality control, GxP quality content, training management, quality systems, or manufacturing experience
- Experience leading or guiding global sales teams through complex enterprise opportunities
- Experience managing C-suite and executive-level relationships
- Published laboratory informatics thought leadership, whitepapers, or articles
Veeva Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Veeva and has not been reviewed or approved by Veeva.
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Healthcare Strength — Health, dental, vision, and mental health coverage are provided alongside HSA/FSA options, with some locations adding fitness reimbursements or gym support. These offerings contribute to a comprehensive core healthcare package.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Broad-based equity, RSUs/options, and an employee stock purchase plan are part of total rewards, with widespread participation noted across the company. In several roles, equity is considered a meaningful component that lifts total compensation.
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Parental & Family Support — Support includes maternity and paternity leave, adoption assistance, fertility benefits, childcare benefits, and family medical leave. These programs signal a family-friendly approach to time off and caregiving needs.
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The Company
What We Do
Veeva is the global leader in cloud software for the life sciences industry. Committed to innovation, product excellence, and customer success, Veeva serves more than 1,000 customers, ranging from the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies to emerging biotechs. As a Public Benefit Corporation, Veeva is committed to balancing the interests of all stakeholders, including customers, employees, shareholders, and the industries it serves.
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