VP Sales (f/m/d)
Clariness
Summary
Clariness helps patients access clinical trials faster through our ClinLife® platform, active in 50+ countries. In this role, you will turn expertise into real-world impact, connecting patients with studies and accelerating medical breakthroughs. Make your next role matter - help more patients join life-changing studies.
Job description
About the role
Clariness helps patients access clinical trials faster through our ClinLife® platform, active in 50+ countries. In this role, you will turn expertise into real-world impact, connecting patients with studies and accelerating medical breakthroughs. Make your next role matter - help more patients join life-changing studies.
As a VP Sales, you would be responsible for:
- Prospecting, developing, and closing new business opportunities within the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical device, and CRO sectors.
- Growing and managing strategic and existing customer accounts.
- Building strong relationships with clients, partners, distributors, and key opinion leaders.
- Representing the company at conferences, networking events, and client meetings.
- Maintaining an accurate sales pipeline and providing reliable sales forecasts.
- Supporting leadership in achieving commercial objectives and identifying opportunities to improve products, services, and processes.
- Acting as a trusted advisor by bringing market insights and challenging existing approaches to drive continuous improvement.
We would like you to have:
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Life Sciences, Marketing, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Minimum 8 years of sales and business development experience with responsibility for achieving commercial targets.
- Proven experience working with large pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology, CROs, or the broader life sciences industry.
- Experience across key commercial and marketing disciplines, including communications, demand generation, and product marketing, in international markets.
- Experience supporting or leading large-scale patient recruitment campaigns.
- Demonstrated success in building strategic client relationships and driving business growth.
- Strong communication, negotiation, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience hiring, mentoring, and developing high-performing commercial or marketing talent is an advantage.
- Self-driven, strategic, and customer-focused with the ability to build lasting partnerships.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Life Sciences, Marketing, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Minimum 8 years of sales and business development experience with responsibility for achieving commercial targets.
- Proven experience working with large pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology, CROs, or the broader life sciences industry.
- Experience across key commercial and marketing disciplines, including communications, demand generation, and product marketing, in international markets.
- Experience supporting or leading large-scale patient recruitment campaigns.
- Demonstrated success in building strategic client relationships and driving business growth.
- Strong communication, negotiation, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience hiring, mentoring, and developing high-performing commercial or marketing talent is an advantage.
- Self-driven, strategic, and customer-focused with the ability to build lasting partnerships.
Benefits
- Personal development budget
- Flexible working hours
- Mobile working
- Team events
Company overview
Clariness is a leading global patient recruitment and retention company specializing in connecting pharmaceutical sponsors and contract research organizations (CROs) with suitable patients for clinical trials. Founded in Germany, the company has established itself as a key player in the clinical research ecosystem by leveraging innovative digital technologies and data-driven approaches to accelerate patient enrollment. Clariness operates a comprehensive platform that combines patient databases, targeted outreach strategies, and clinical trial matching algorithms to optimize recruitment timelines and improve study participation rates. Their services span across multiple therapeutic areas including oncology, rare diseases, neurology, and immunology. The company's expertise in patient-centric recruitment methodologies helps reduce clinical trial delays and costs while ensuring diverse and representative patient populations. With operations across Europe and North America, Clariness supports both large pharmaceutical companies and emerging biotech firms in bringing new therapies to market more efficiently.