Senior Director, Enterprise Agreements

Medidata Solutions • Woodbridge Township, NJ

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

Medidata, a Dassault Systèmespany, is leading the digital transformation of life sciences, creating hope for millions of people. Medidata helps generate the evidence and insights to help pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device and diagnosticspanies, and academic researchers accelerate value, minimize risk, and optimize oues. More than one million registered users across 2,000+ customers and partners access the world's most trusted platform for clinical development,mercial, and real-world data. Known for its groundbreaking technological innovations, Medidata has supported more than 33,000 clinical trials and 10 million study participants. Medidata is headquartered in New York City and has offices around the world to meet the needs of its customers. Discover more at medidataand follow us on , , and X. In this role, you will partner with the Sales and Services teams in supporting overall deal pursuit, strategy, management and negotiations. Success in the role requires ability to work across multiple functional areas, with a customer-centric lens. You will require direct customer-facing meetings and accountability for driving successful oues. This role reports to the SVP for Commercial Strategy.

Requirements

• Minimum 10 Years Experience in Sales and Sales Management
• 5+ years of experience withplex software solutions and SaaS
• Minimum 5 years experience with growth technology environments, either directly at such apany, or indirectly through a - consulting relationship
• Experience in Revenue Recognition/Legal/ Sales Planning/Operations or Business Contracting
• BS/BA Required
• Successful track record in SaaS sales and Sales Management
• Successful track record inplex deal structures and negotiations
• Successfully engage and scale at every level of client'sanization
• Negotiation and Analytics skills
• Familiarity with SaaS pricing models and typical SaaS legal terms and conditions
• Well versed in sales methodologies and their application to the team selling environment
• Comfortable presenting and engaging with cross-functional teams, customers, and executive management
• Understand client perspectives, simplifyplex problems, provide creative alternatives
• Team player: experience working across functions to own and deliver customer/prospect/client-facing proposals
• Proactive, creative and entrepreneurial
• Synthesize many threads of information to generate strategic and financial insights

Responsibilities

• Experience using a CRM software system
• Work with sales to define specific deal strategy and plan of pursuit. Provide strategic guidance on deal structure and client-facing deliverables.
• Work with cross-functional areas including Legal, Sales Ops, Finance, Pricing, Professional Services and others to triangulate and optimize agreement structures, resolveplex situations or escalations while maximizing revenue/bookings.
• Understand, define and optimize agreements for positive revenue impact and long-term success.
• Engage and lead in direct client negotiations. Collaborate with sales on sales strategy and execution, creatingpelling events and driving successful oues.
• Translate the value proposition of Medidata's offering into deal structures that lead to optimized terms and conditions for Medidata.
• Manageplex deal structures, working closely with Sales representatives to articulate customer requirements, the business case, and deal value both internally and externally.
• Serve as the trusted advisor to the field on pricing, revenue recognition, deal structure, and business terms.
• Foster and maintain strong working relationships with critical business partners (e.g. Finance, Legal, Support, etc.) to expedite the review and approval process.
• Manage business approval process for non-standard, mostplex and high visibility sales transactions to meet customer's critical business requirements while expediting sales velocity, and adhering to Medidata's operational policies, accounting & legal practices.
• Position agreements for joint Medidata/Client long-term success, including renewals, product/category expansion and adoption.
• Ensure thatplex transactions are operationalized andmunicated to all relevant parties to provide visibility and awareness.
• Inspire creativity and simplification developing new standards on engaging clients with value propositions andmercial terms.

Benefits

• Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Medidata provides topensate and recognize employees for their work.
• Most sales positions are eligible for amission on the terms of applicable plan documents, and many of Medidata's non-sales positions are eligible for annual bonuses.
• Medidata believes that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most and provides best-in-class benefits, including medical, dental, life and disability insurance; 401(k) matching; flexible paid time off; and 10 paid holidays per year.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director