Director, Business Development & Portfolio Management
Fairfield, New Jersey, Us
Reporting to the President, responsible for researching, identifying and selecting new products for manufacture at our partner sites, worldwide. Ultimately, this entailed managing >760 API products and strategically encompassed addition of 40-50 API's per year. Included within this responsibility were IP review, market forecast and analysis, clinical trial monitoring, competitive intelligence and estimation, technical competency review / input from the manufacturing sites, review of SEC filings, major trade show attendance, prospecting, lead qualification, pricing and a host of other business and technical facets used as filters. Managed the custom synthesis/CDMO sales group at SST, targeting KPI’s for revenue and growth quarter to quarter and year-on-year. Project exposure was grown several fold with the capable assistance of a small team that included one technically-trained, M.S.-level direct sales report and one administrative assistant. Business efforts on this front were strategically realigned in 2014 utilizing the expertise of a US-based CDMO in North Carolina, as well as CDMO players based in Asia.Advised the generic API Sales & Marketing team with technical, patent and other talking point data to increase the likelihood of API sales success. This was done via electronic spot promotions, PowerPoint presentations, face-to-face account visits, trade show meetings and/or Zoom/WebEx/Teams/Skype videoconferences.Responsible (as sole contributor) for identifying, qualifying, account development and closing of nanotechnology service offering activities performed by one of our European scientific partners.Technically assisted in identifying and evaluating finished dosage opportunities for our strategic marketing partner, BenAlex. We attempted to marry our existing products, from long-standing relationships with ex-U.S. API suppliers, into opportunistic dosage form market entry in North America.