Project Director

Location: Home Based – Canada / travel to client offices within Canada
Vacancy Type:  Permanent, full time
Reporting to: Senior Project Director, Canada

Inizio Ignite is the global advisory partner for health and life sciences, encompassing connected expertise across Research Partnership, Putnam, Vynamic, and STEM. Guided by purpose, passion, and precision, we collaborate with clients to ignite impact, accelerate performance, and deliver lasting change for patients. By uniting strategy, insights, and innovation with a unique depth and breadth of expertise, we drive transformation and shape the future of health. Our STEM team uses benchmarking and evidence-based approaches to drive alignment resulting in accelerated performance. Serving clients across brand & commercial, Medical Affairs & sales, our expertise includes data, research & insights (proprietary benchmarking data), strategic brand alignment, and sales teams & MSL performance benchmarking. From early-stage development to loss of exclusivity, we simplify complexity, unlock value, and make collaboration seamless at every pivotal moment – supporting confident, insight-driven decisions that move innovation forward. 

Job purpose:

The Project Director reports into a Senior Project Director, and manages consulting projects end to end, responsible (on a matrix basis) for the project team including field staff. The projects tend to be for global Pharmaceutical organizations focussed on their Canada market, as well as local Pharmaceutical organizations.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive business development, including maintaining current business, winning new clients, and expanding the STEM business across existing clients
  • STEM’s wide-ranging and innovative business model allows exposure to C-Level executives across the top Pharma companies, and the opportunity to tackle their critical issues
  • Manage client strategic relationships, specifically:
    • Serve as the client partner and primary point of contact during projects
    • Expand footprint by identifying opportunities for additional projects with existing clients

• Project set-up/ management/ delivery
  • Orchestrate and manage the core operational elements involved in the setup/ execution and delivery of high-value client projects, including:
    • Project design (including final creation of project deliverables) highly tailored to client needs.
    • Conduct Senior Leadership interviews with Pharma organizations (marketing, sales, training, medical, market access, and other support functions)
    • Direct data analysis to identify key strategic insights and root cause to uncover client challenges
    • Drive the creation and development of client results presentations by providing direction and guidance to the analysis team. Ensure high quality output highly tailored to client needs.
    • Provide leadership, direction, and guidance to a diverse team of project managers, analysts, and field team specialists.

• • Provide leadership, direction, and guidance to a diverse team of project managers, analysts and field team specialists.

Essential Requirements

• An inclusive leader with the ability to communicate, interact, and gain respect across all levels and functions within a pharmaceutical organization: Marketing, sales, medical, Market access, managed care, operations, business insights leaders, etc.
• A core knowledge of pharmaceutical/healthcare/life sciences, from strategy to sales force execution OR life science consulting experience
• Strong background working in or with brand marketing and/or sales leadership roles in the pharmaceutical industry. Experience in both roles is critical.
• A good understanding of pharmaceutical selling, including the intricacies and nuances associated with a salesforce Rep/HCP detailing, and Medical Science Liaison/HCP interaction
• Commercial/ sales experience or the ability to sell
• Highly analytical with the ability to transform data into insight and recommendations
• Can get “in the weeds” as well as pull back to “see the big picture”
• Demonstrated leadership ability with a willingness to make decisions and own the follow-through
• Strong learning agility to adapt to rapid change and new situations
• Capable of communicating complex ideas in a simple manner
• Ability to give and receive feedback
• A “doer” and a “leader”
• Ability to naturally identify and exploit business opportunities
• BA/BS required; MBA preferred.
• Demonstrated proficiency at working with data
• Formal insights experience will be a plus

About STEM:

STEM Healthcare is a dynamic, fast paced global pharmaceutical and life sciences strategic benchmarking firm headquartered in the UK and present across six continents. STEM have developed an audit process and built a benchmarking database with more than 500,000 face-to-face observations completed across 52 countries. The benchmark provided is unique in the pharmaceutical industry consisting of over 100 KPIs, while focusing on 2-3 key priorities during formulation of action planning to help clients further accelerate performance.

STEM accelerates performance, improves strategic alignment, and facilitates excellence in marketing, medical, market access and account plans strategy execution. Due to the unique, specialised and highly targeted offering, STEM is experiencing a rapid growth phase, and recruiting heavily across the world. New employees will be joining at a time where rapid career development and growth opportunities are expected, as the organisation works towards their mid and long-term goals.

Find us here:

Website: www.inizio.com/ourbusinesses/ignite

STEM Healthcare is an equal opportunity employer.  STEM Healthcare will consider all qualified applicants for employment without discrimination on grounds of disability, sex or sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity leave status, race or national or ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, gender identity or re-assignment, marital or civil partnership status, protected veteran status (if applicable) or any other characteristic protected by law. STEM Healthcare only employs individuals with the right to work in the country/ies where the role is advertised.