Director Of Business Development
Current
Max Neeman Medical International
Responsible for directly selling CRO services to potential or existing clients within the Western US and Western Canada region. Working to build key client partnerships for growing the CRO clinical trial business. Actively supporting the marketing, advertising, and market research of clinical trial services. Coordination of customer interactions including presentations and meetings with clinical operations and the internal selling support team. Creation of feasibility reports, proposals and contracts as needed. deCODE chemistry and biostructures January, 2008-August, 2008 Identification of new clients and business opportunities with large pharmaceutical and biotech companies while growing existing client accounts. Attendance at client meetings, trade shows and conferences to promote services for structural biology, medicinal chemistry, process chemistry, analytical chemistry, parallel protein purification and analysis, protein-ligand co-crystal structure determination, high throughput crystallization screening, X-ray data collection, computer aided design of expression-optimized synthetic genes, formulation development, physicochemical characterization, pre-formulation screening, lead optimization, In Silico hit optimization, drug safety, drug metabolism, in vitro ADME and toxicology, safety and toxicology studies. Currently working with internal marketing and scientific operations groups to generate business proposals. Also responsible for cold calling, negotiation of contracts, and business plan development. Territory includes New England, Mid-Atlantic and the Southeast.