Sales Executive, Life Sciences, Safety Technology, EMEA

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The Role
Drive enterprise sales growth for IQVIA’s AI-powered pharmacovigilance and drug safety technology across EMEA. Responsibilities include prospecting, developing strategic accounts, managing the full sales cycle, exceeding quotas, engaging senior safety stakeholders, and collaborating with product, consulting, hosting, and managed services teams. The role requires experience selling complex SaaS, technology, consulting, and managed services solutions to pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, and clinical research organizations, with strong knowledge of drug safety and pharmacovigilance.
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Join us on our exciting journey!


IQVIA™ is The Human Data Science Company™, focused on using data and science to help healthcare clients find better solutions for their patients. Formed through the merger of IMS Health and Quintiles, IQVIA offers a broad range of solutions that harness advances in healthcare information, technology, analytics, and human ingenuity to drive healthcare forward.


Sales Executive, Life Sciences, Safety Technology, EMEA

 

IQVIA's Safety Technology business is transforming pharmacovigilance through innovative, AI-powered solutions that help life sciences organizations improve patient safety, streamline operations, and accelerate decision-making. Our end-to-end safety platform combines advanced analytics, machine learning, natural language processing, and generative AI to automate case processing, detect adverse events, and provide real-time safety insights across the product lifecycle.


As a Sales Executive, Life Sciences, Safety Technology, EMEA, you will play a key role in driving growth across our Safety portfolio, partnering with pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and clinical research organizations. You will engage senior safety leaders to understand their business challenges and position IQVIA's market-leading pharmacovigilance technology, analytics, and managed service solutions to improve efficiency, compliance, and patient outcomes.


This is a high-impact, strategic sales role for an experienced enterprise software professional with a strong track record of selling complex SaaS, technology, and services solutions within the life sciences industry. Working across the EMEA region, you will collaborate closely with product, consulting, and delivery teams to help customers modernize their safety operations and unlock the value of AI-driven pharmacovigilance.


Responsibilities


  • Develop new business by prospecting accounts focused on Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance solutions, consulting services, hosting, and managed services.
  • Meet or exceed annual quotas by identifying and developing new accounts, following up on existing leads, and generating both incremental and repeatable business.
  • Develop and maintain productive relationships with key target accounts.
  • Work collaboratively with Product, Professional Services, Hosting, and Managed Services teams to ensure successful delivery of safety solutions and to develop client-centric offerings.
  • Identify and respond to customer needs to define opportunities for Pharmacovigilance and Drug Safety solutions, proposing tailored solutions aligned with client requirements.
  • Manage assigned strategic and key account relationships individually or in coordination with Global and Regional Sales teams.

 

Requirements

 

  • Demonstrated success selling enterprise solutions, consulting services, hosting, and managed services to Pharmaceutical, Biotech, Medical Device, and Clinical Research Organizations, with a strong focus on Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance.
  • Proven experience managing relationships with senior stakeholders in a fast-paced growth environment.
  • Full sales cycle experience: prospecting, opportunity identification, solution development, proposal creation, negotiation, and closing.
  • Strong written and verbal English communication skills.
  • Ambitious, driven, self-motivated, and adaptable to a high-growth sales environment.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
  • Willingness to travel across EMEA as required.

Highly preferred capabilities:

 

  • Strong understanding of the pharmacovigilance and drug safety lifecycle, including pre-market and post-market activities.
  • Experience selling drug safety technology, pharmacovigilance services, case processing solutions, signal detection solutions, safety analytics, hosting, and managed services.
  • Experience engaging with Heads of Safety, Global Safety Leaders, Chief Medical Officers, Pharmacovigilance Operations Leaders, and Safety Systems stakeholders.
  • Proven success in a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) environment.
  • 10+ years of experience in sales, business development, or a related commercial role.

 

Why Join?


You can drive your career at IQVIA and choose the path that best defines your development and success. With exposure across diverse geographies, capabilities, and vast therapeutic and information and technology areas, you can seek opportunities to change and grow without boundaries.


We know that meaningful results require not only the right approach but also the right people. Regardless of your role, we invite you to reimagine healthcare with us. You will have the opportunity to play an important part in helping our clients drive healthcare forward and ultimately improve human health outcomes.


It's an exciting time to join and reimagine what's possible in healthcare.

 

Moving healthcare forward. Together.


IQVIA is a strong advocate of diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We believe that a work environment that embraces diversity will give us a competitive advantage in the global marketplace and enhance our success. We believe that an inclusive and respectful workplace culture fosters a sense of belonging among our employees, builds a stronger team, and allows individual employees the opportunity to maximize their personal potential.

 


IQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights, and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. We create intelligent connections to accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments to help improve patient outcomes and population health worldwide. Learn more at https://jobs.iqvia.com.

IQVIA is committed to integrity in our hiring process and maintains a zero tolerance policy for candidate fraud. All information and credentials submitted in your application must be truthful and complete. Any false statements, misrepresentations, or material omissions during the recruitment process will result in immediate disqualification of your application, or termination of employment if discovered later, in accordance with applicable law. We appreciate your honesty and professionalism.

At IQVIA, we believe that diversity, inclusion, and belonging empower our mission to accelerate innovation for a healthier world. We create a culture of belonging by valuing the perspectives of all talented employees worldwide and providing them with the opportunity to power smarter healthcare for everyone, everywhere. When our talented employees bring their authentic selves and their diverse experiences to work, they enable us to accomplish extraordinary things. Multifaceted thought processes spark innovation. Multi-talented collaboration harnesses innovation to deliver superior outcomes. Likewise, as part of this culture, IQVIA is committed to ensuring effective equality between women and men, integrating it as a strategic principle in its corporate and human resources policies.

Skills Required

  • Demonstrated success selling enterprise solutions, consulting services, hosting, and managed services to pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, and clinical research organizations, focused on drug safety and pharmacovigilance
  • Experience managing relationships with senior stakeholders in a fast-paced growth environment
  • Full sales-cycle experience, including prospecting, opportunity identification, solution development, proposal creation, negotiation, and closing
  • Strong written and verbal English communication skills
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • Willingness to travel across EMEA as required
  • Strong understanding of the pharmacovigilance and drug safety lifecycle, including pre-market and post-market activities
  • Experience selling drug safety technology, pharmacovigilance services, case processing, signal detection, safety analytics, hosting, and managed services
  • Experience engaging Heads of Safety, Global Safety Leaders, Chief Medical Officers, Pharmacovigilance Operations Leaders, and Safety Systems stakeholders
  • Proven success in a Software-as-a-Service environment
  • 10+ years of experience in sales, business development, or a related commercial role

IQVIA Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about IQVIA and has not been reviewed or approved by IQVIA.

  • Healthcare Strength Healthcare coverage is positioned as comprehensive, spanning medical/dental/vision plus programs like telemedicine, EAP resources, and additional insurance options. Feedback suggests the health offering is a meaningful part of the overall rewards package, though details can vary by location and plan design.
  • Retirement Support Retirement benefits include an employer match structure that supports employee contributions through a defined formula. This adds steady long-term value to total rewards beyond base salary.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Time off offerings include vacation/paid time off, holidays, and flexibility themes, with some roles described as having discretionary or unlimited time-off models. This can make the package feel more attractive even when cash compensation is viewed as only mid-range.

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The Company
HQ: Durham, NC
61,500 Employees
Year Founded: 2016

What We Do

IQVIA (NYSE:IQV) is a leading global provider of advanced analytics, technology solutions, and clinical research services to the life sciences industry. IQVIA creates intelligent connections across all aspects of healthcare through its analytics, transformative technology, big data resources and extensive domain expertise. IQVIA Connected Intelligence™ delivers powerful insights with speed and agility — enabling customers to accelerate the clinical development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments that improve healthcare outcomes for patients. With approximately 70,000 employees, IQVIA conducts operations in more than 100 countries. To learn more, visit www.iqvia.com.

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