Director - Validation Management

Veeva Systems; London; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Director of Validation Management to lead the growth of digital validation solutions in life sciences. This pivotal role involves providing thought leadership, engaging with key stakeholders, and driving customer success. You'll be at the forefront of modernizing validation processes, ensuring that clients benefit from superior solutions in a flexible work environment. Join a mission-driven organization committed to making a positive impact in the life sciences sector and enjoy the freedom to work from anywhere while contributing to transformative projects.

Qualifications

• Direct experience in validation processes with a focus on Quality and Validation.
• 3+ years consulting for life sciences companies in digital validation software.

Responsibilities

• Grow and sustain the market for Vault Validation Management.
• Provide thought leadership and direction to field-facing teams.
• Develop strategy for customer adoption of Vault Validation Management.

Skills

Validation Processes

Consulting for Life Sciences

Innovation in Business Processes

Customer Stakeholder Engagement

Job description

Director - Validation Management

United Kingdom - London / Strategy – 610-Stgy R&D / Full-Time / Remote

Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history, we surpassed $2B in revenue in our last fiscal year with extensive growth potential ahead. At the heart of Veeva are our values: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed. We're not just any public company – we made history in 2021 by becoming a public benefit corporation (PBC), legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors. As a Work Anywhere company, we support your flexibility to work from home or in the office, so you can thrive in your ideal environment. Join us in transforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities.

The Role:

Join Veeva as we modernize Paperless Validation Software. As the Director of Vault Validation Management Strategy, you will be responsible for growing Veeva’s footprint in the digital validation marketplace for customers in Life Sciences & Consumer Products. This role is seeking a leader with a deep understanding of the global life sciences and manufacturing space with expertise in validation lifecycle management. In this role, you will provide industry thought leadership to help craft customer solutions, facilitate relationships with key partners, and support customer success. Your mission in this role is to drive customer adoption and long-term success with a superior solution. This is a work anywhere, full-time permanent role with Veeva. Our work processes are designed so that you can be productive in the environment that works best for you. This is a customer-facing role, and we have no work location requirement if you are in close proximity to an airport and able to meet future travel requirements.

What You'll Do

• Responsible for growing and sustaining the market for Vault Validation Management in Veeva’s product portfolio
• Provide thought leadership and direction to field-facing teams, including creating and maintaining relationships with Validation Management executive leadership
• Provide business and product guidance to the product team in support of new or enhanced features and functionality in the Vault Validation Management application
• Working with cross-functional team members to ensure customer success and delivering value
• Develop strategy and messaging for customer adoption of Vault Validation Management
• Coordinate resources across the customer lifecycle from sales to delivery and beyond
• Providing solution-oriented responses to presentations, Requests for Proposals/Information (RFPs/RFIs), pricing, proposals, and other sales deliverables
• Serve as an evangelist in the validation space by presenting at industry conferences, leading webinars, and authoring content for industry publications
• Engage with communities of practice, and manage relationships with partners
• Support marketing activities such as recording videos, presenting webinars, editing website content, attending conferences, and more

Requirements

• Direct experience supporting validation processes, with an emphasis on Quality and Validation
• 3+ years consulting for life sciences companies in digital validation software or working with a digital validation or quality software vendor
• Proven ability to innovate across business processes and technology solutions
• Ability to hold meaningful conversations with customer stakeholders and relevant IT leaders regarding digital validation applications and their use within multiple functional areas
• Ability to travel for customer meetings and presentations up to 40%

Veeva’s headquarters is located in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in more than 15 countries around the world. Veeva is committed to fostering a culture of inclusion and growing a diverse workforce. Diversity makes us stronger. It comes in many forms. Gender, race, ethnicity, religion, politics, sexual orientation, age, disability and life experience shape us all into unique individuals. We value people for the individuals they are and the contributions they can bring to our teams.