Strategic Engagement Lead, Life Sciences

Job Description

Job Description

Datavant is the data collaboration platform trusted for healthcare. Guided by our mission to make the world's health data secure, accessible and actionable, we provide critical data solutions for organizations across the healthcare ecosystem - including providers, health plans, researchers, and life sciences companies. From fulfilling a single patient's request for their medical records to powering the AI revolution in healthcare, Datavanters are building the future of how data is connected and used to improve health.

By joining Datavant today, you're stepping onto a driven and highly collaborative team that is passionate about creating transformative change in healthcare.

What We're Looking For

We are looking for an experienced Strategic Engagement Lead who thrives in a fast-paced environment. Strategic Engagement is the value engine of Datavant Life Sciences. We are accountable for driving meaningful, measurable outcomes for our customers by aligning our products and services with their strategic objectives—maximizing value, accelerating time to patient and business impact, and fostering long-term, expansive relationships. As such, we need an experienced relationship management individual who can drive success for our customers.

This role includes responsibilities for commercial outcomes (e.g., value realization, customer satisfaction, renewals, etc.) and post-sale activities (e.g., delivery, adoption, advocacy, retention, etc.).

What You Will Do

• Own account management and value management for a dedicated account portfolio of up to 15 accounts in our biopharma segment, with a special focus on end-to-end acceleration of value within your portfolio.
• Lead with curiosity and dive deep into learning and understanding the goals and strategies of our customers and how our solutions and products support those goals
• Excel in advanced program management and decision-making, balancing thoughtful analysis with speed to execution, appropriately prioritizing, and knowing when and how to escalate complex edge cases effectively
• Influence future lifetime value through higher product adoption, customer satisfaction and overall health scores
• Thrive in a fast-paced, continuous improvement environment, embracing gray areas and ambiguity, while seeking to drive clarity and scalability for your customers and the business
• Work effectively with your cross-functional partners - surfacing insights that influence product and sales strategies across account teams for your portfolio accounts.
• Take a self-service-first approach to problem solving and navigating questions internally and externally
• Be a proven communicator and presenter with a commitment to maintaining good internal and external relationships through passion, empathy, and hard work
• Help create a company-wide culture of customer-centricity

What You Need to Succeed

• 7+ years experience in healthcare technology and customer facing roles (required)
• Proven ability to build deep, trust-based relationships with customer stakeholders
• Seasoned strategic program and project manager focused on connect the dots thinking that puts client value at the center of everything
• Skilled at expanding relationships beyond direct contacts through rapport-building
• Demonstrated ownership of complex, high-value customer accounts
• Strategic thinker who connects cross-customer trends to shape value propositions.
• Effective and empathetic internal and external communication
• Previous experiencing working in one or more of the following areas (required):
  • Experience working within RWD health analytic companies, CROs, or systems integrators in the healthcare sector
  • Application of RWD and RWE in the pharmaceutical and life sciences space
  • Understanding of drug development and/or clinical trials
• Living within commutable distance to our office in New York City, NY and able to commute to the office and to client sites periodically

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We are committed to building a diverse team of Datavanters who are all responsible for stewarding a high-performance culture in which all Datavanters belong and thrive. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.

At Datavant our total rewards strategy powers a high-growth, high-performance, health technology company that rewards our employees for transforming health care through creating industry-defining data logistics products and services.

The range posted is for a given job title, which can include multiple levels. Individual rates for the same job title may differ based on their level, responsibilities, skills, and experience for a specific job. This role is eligible for additional variable compensation.

The estimated base salary range (not including variable pay) for this role is:

$120,000—$150,000 USD

To ensure the safety of patients and staff, many of our clients require post-offer health screenings and proof and/or completion of various vaccinations such as the flu shot, Tdap, COVID-19, etc. Any requests to be exempted from these requirements will be reviewed by Datavant Human Resources and determined on a case-by-case basis. Depending on the state in which you will be working, exemptions may be available on the basis of disability, medical contraindications to the vaccine or any of its components, pregnancy or pregnancy-related medical conditions, and/or religion.

This job is not eligible for employment sponsorship.

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