Library Associates Companies (LAC) seeks for immediate consideration a Director of Competitive Intelligence (CI), Latin America, for a dynamic and instrumental position in a leading pharmaceutical company located in the Chicago suburbs.


RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the competitive intelligence initiative for the Latin America Division of the company by monitoring, understanding, and quantifying strategies, results, and expected future actions of competing organizations.
• Serve as the project manager for collection and synthesis of qualitative & quantitative competitive data, and meets proactively with key business stakeholders to deliver intelligence in support of high-priority management decisions and/or defined key information topics.
• Maintain competitive information.
• Participate in long-range and annual strategic planning.
• Contributing to business development and licensing projects.
• Responsible for market analysis, monitoring competitive activity, and identifying customer needs in the evaluation of new initiatives and business opportunities.
• Provide leadership in the planning, designing and implementing of business plans.
• Understand internal clients’ commercial needs and defines key intelligence topics related to the Company’s competitive situation.
• Undertake primary and secondary CI research, and synthesizes findings into commercially relevant intelligence in support of high-priority corporate decisions.
• Monitor all relevant sources of market information to provide early warning to business stakeholders’ of potential critical threats to the business.
• Ensures that key decision makers understand competitors’ capacities and intentions on a tactical and strategic level.
• Develop predefined standards to ensure legal and ethical approaches to CI protecting business interests and confidentiality.
• Assist in providing and maintaining access to electronic databases and other sources of electronic knowledge of value
• Proactively plans CI opportunity and risk, SWOT analysis, war gaming, pre-launch planning and other strategic analyses at various stages of the 'product life-cycle'.
• Manage the design end execution of models employed in business development initiatives.


QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline with an advanced degree in business or science strongly preferred
• 10+ years of relevant experience depending on degree including 5 years competitive intelligence experience preferably within the Pharmaceutical industry
• Background to include previous supervisory responsibility and international experience preferably in Latin America
• Broad knowledge and experience with the information technology used for searching, delivering and sharing of information and intelligence as well as building and maintaining competitor, disease area, and technology landscapes
• Familiarity with major data collection and analysis techniques, including ability to define business questions, generate hypotheses, design research approaches and instruments, interview, and perform secondary research
• Highest commitment to undertaking CI in accordance with applicable laws and a corporate code of conduct
• Strong relationship management and influencing skills and comfort working with cross-functional teams
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Must be fluent in Spanish/English with Portuguese highly desirable
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally required (up to 50%)


TO APPLY

1. Please email resume and cover letter as a Word document to Elisa Topper, Director of Staffing, etopper@libraryassociates.com and CC to jobs@libraryassociates.com.
2. List “Director CI #1326” as Subject line of your email.
3. Please let us know where you saw our posting.
4. Library Associates Companies is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer that values diversity in the workforce.