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Associate Director/Director Business Development

Research Triangle Park💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-10 → 2026-09-27

Core

Leading high-value, strategic new business for Mystra, a SaaS data and analytics platform, and a technology-enabled consultancy business within the life sciences sector.

Role type

Senior individual contributor business development director

Builds

Strategic new business opportunities and complex sales cycles for pharma and biotech clients

Domain

Life sciences / Genomics / SaaS

Deliverable

client delivery

Required skills

Senior-level SaaS or enterprise technology sales into pharma/biotech, closing complex high-value deals, engaging R&D and research departments, navigating senior scientific and commercial stakeholders, working knowledge of genetics/genomics, strategic market thinking

Preferred skills

Advanced degree in life sciences or business, experience in digital health

Technologies

Mystra platform

Responsibilities

Own and drive significant new commercial opportunities across pharma and biotech, build multi-stakeholder relationships at senior and executive levels, lead complex sales cycles from first conversation to contract close, invest in understanding clients' long-term R&D and data strategies, set standards for pipeline discipline and forecasting, act as the voice of the customer to shape Product, Science, and Marketing approaches

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