Business Development & Growth Associate, Pharma
About The Position
At Talkspace, we are committed to fostering a diverse, equitable, inclusive, and belonging-centered workplace where everyone can thrive while making a difference in mental health. Want to help over two million people receive quality mental healthcare? Come join our mission of getting therapy in the hands of everyone! We are looking for a Business Development & Growth Associate, Pharma to join our Wisdo Health team. This role would be responsible for supporting the continued growth of our pharma business. Working directly with Wisdo’s President, this person will play a hands-on role in identifying prospective clients, executing outreach campaigns, supporting business-development activities, and helping expand relationships across the pharmaceutical industry. This role is ideal for someone who is resourceful, technology-savvy, and comfortable using AI and a variety of digital tools to work quickly and independently. You may be researching a pharmaceutical brand and building a prospect list, launching a LinkedIn campaign, preparing for a client meeting, working in our CRM, or using AI to accelerate research and content development. Prospecting, outreach, and consistent follow-up are central to the role. You’ll also help turn what you learn about prospective clients into stronger campaigns and sales materials. The right person enjoys figuring things out, learning new tools, and turning ideas into execution. To work at Talkspace, you need to be as passionate as we are about our work, and excited to partner with us on delivering quality mental healthcare. This is a remote position based on Eastern Time. Talkspace Headquarters is located in NYC.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of hands-on business development or growth experience in healthcare, life sciences, or healthcare marketing, including prospect research, outbound outreach, and pipeline follow-up.
- Experience targeting pharmaceutical brands, patient support teams, or healthcare/pharma agencies is strongly preferred.
- Able to describe outreach campaigns you personally executed and the meetings or opportunities they generated.
- Hands-on experience using a CRM, prospecting tools, LinkedIn, and email platforms to run outreach and maintain an organized pipeline.
- Strong research and writing skills, with demonstrated use of AI tools to work faster while checking the accuracy and quality of the output.
Responsibilities
- Research pharmaceutical companies, brands, therapeutic areas, agencies, and potential partners.
- Identify decision-makers and build and maintain targeted prospect and account lists.
- Use LinkedIn, prospecting databases, AI tools, and other resources to identify contacts and opportunities.
- Build and execute targeted email and LinkedIn outreach campaigns.
- Conduct initial outreach, personalize communications, and manage systematic follow-up.
- Track responses and help turn initial interest into meetings with senior leadership.
- Maintain prospect, opportunity, and activity information in the CRM and track follow-ups and next steps.
- Research companies, brands, and attendees in advance of prospective-client meetings.
- Help customize presentations and prepare materials for client conversations.
- Coordinate post-meeting follow-up and support proposals, RFP responses, and other business-development materials.
- Use AI extensively to accelerate prospect research, account intelligence, outreach, meeting preparation, and content development.
- Work hands-on across CRM platforms, prospecting databases, LinkedIn, email and marketing platforms, spreadsheets, presentation tools, and other commercial technologies.
- Explore new AI and automation tools and identify opportunities to make prospecting, outreach, and other workflows more efficient.
- Learn new platforms independently and maintain clean, organized data across systems.
- Help execute campaigns around Wisdo research, client results, white papers, webinars, and thought leadership.
- Support LinkedIn, email, and other marketing activities targeting pharmaceutical audiences.
- Research relevant conferences and events, identify priority prospects and attendees, and coordinate pre- and post-event outreach.
- Help develop and maintain sales and marketing materials.
Benefits
- Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision plans
- Pre-tax benefits: HSA/ FSA
- 401k Retirement Savings Program with matching up to 4%
- Voluntary benefits including disability, basic life or pet insurance, etc.
- Monthly Wellness Stipend to promote mental and physical self-care
- Flexible PTO and Remote First Environment
- Regular team events, including Wellness Workshops and Team Building Events
- Free access to Talkspace products for you and one household member, as well as access to a friends and family discount!
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
