Job title: Chief Operating Officer
Reporting to: CEO, STEM Healthcare
STEM is an Inizio Advisory business. Inizio Advisory is a trusted advisor for health and life science companies that turns science into strategy, supporting execution at every stage of the product and patient journey from early commercialization to launch and beyond.
We provide market research and insights, strategy consulting, people and transformation consulting, and commercial benchmarking that has empowered world-leading strategies for portfolio development, product launch, franchising, HEOR, pricing, and market access -all expert-designed, data-backed, and completely patient-inspired.
Inizio is a truly global partner with more than 12,500 experts operating in over 50 countries covering all major health and life sciences markets.
About STEM:
STEM Healthcare is a dynamic, fast paced global pharmaceutical and life sciences strategic benchmarking firm headquartered in the UK and present across six continents. STEM have developed an audit process and built a benchmarking database with more than 500,000 face-to-face observations completed across 52 countries. The benchmark provided is unique in the pharmaceutical industry consisting of over 100 KPIs, while focusing on 2-3 key priorities during formulation of action planning to help clients further accelerate performance.
STEM accelerates performance, improves strategic alignment, and facilitates excellence in marketing, medical, market access and account plans strategy execution. Due to the unique, specialized and highly targeted offering, STEM is experiencing a rapid growth phase, and recruiting heavily across the world. New employees will be joining at a time where rapid career development and growth opportunities are expected, as the organisation works towards their mid and long-term goals.
Vision: To always be viewed as an essential partner in enabling our clients to reach more patients with their medicines
Mission: To accelerate high performance
Core Values: Brave, Honest, Performance Driven, Practical, Customer Focused, Caring
Job purpose:
This is a key senior leadership role responsible for driving the profitable growth of the business and the global strategy.
Job Responsibilities:

• Develop comprehensive strategic business plans to deliver the required growth targets.
• Build Tactical execution plans to deliver the business strategy. These plans should be operationally efficient, and suitable for sustainable scaling and growth. They should include the measurement of KPIs and monitoring mechanisms to assess progress and ensure delivery.
• Build leadership capability in STEM to ensure an empowering culture to create a great place to work, supporting people development, creating robust succession plans, and improving retention of employees.
• Support all Business Development Activities as required.
• Review current value proposition, ensure an innovative focus on future opportunities, and convert into client focused solutions.
• Partnering with Global Operations, to identify structural improvements and solutions to increase operational excellence and alignment.
• Maximize the opportunities presented by technology and ensure the integrity of data and the security of systems and key databases.

Essential Requirements:
The ideal candidate who will fill this role will:

• Have strong commercial and operational experience and acumen.
• Have the potential to progress to more senior roles within the Inizio organisation.
• Be experienced in driving operational excellence and efficiency in a Pharmaceutical Service Provider environment.
• Demonstrate refined leadership skills and an understanding of the interpersonal dynamics that can impede or expedite organisation capability.
• Be resilient, structured and have a solution focused approach. Demonstrating ingenuity and working in partnership with all parts of the business.

Don't meet every job requirement? That's okay! Our company is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role, but your experience doesn't perfectly fit every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this role or others.