Vice President of Sales - Healthcare Market Research UK (Hybrid)

About This Role

This leadership role involves leading a high-performing sales team within a global leader in healthcare insights, focusing on the UK market. The successful candidate will drive team revenue and profit, coach and develop sales professionals, and maintain close client relationships.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and performance-manage a team of VPs, AVPs, and Account Managers to hit and exceed individual and team revenue goals
• Own quarterly revenue and gross profit targets for your team
• Drive new business while growing and protecting key accounts
• Shape bid strategy to maximise margin, and mentor your team to do the same
• Track sales KPIs across bidding and behavioural metrics to keep performance high and workloads balanced
• Build strategic account plans that bring the full product suite to clients
• Partner closely with delivery leads to ensure a seamless client experience from quote to invoice
• Contribute ideas and strategy as part of the UK Leadership Team

Requirements

• 7+ years in sales, including 5+ years in sales management
• A strong background in healthcare and/or global market research (qual and quant)
• Proven performance management skills and a track record of building motivated, competitive, supportive teams
• Strong commercial and analytical skills, with the ability to diagnose and turn around performance
• A polished, confident presence with excellent presentation skills, comfortable acting as the senior face of key accounts
• Bachelor's degree required

Nice to have:

• MBA or Master's

Benefits

• Bonus/commission
• Senior leadership visibility with a direct line to the CRO
• The backing of a global, well-resourced business with a market-leading HCP network

About the Company

Oxygen 8 Recruitment is partnering with a globally recognised healthcare market research and data collection business that sits at the heart of the pharma and healthcare research ecosystem. The company has access to one of the world's largest proprietary physician and healthcare professional panels, and its research, technology, and insight solutions help clients make better decisions that ultimately improve patient outcomes.