The Opportunity:

Reporting to the Vice President, General Manager, Mid-Sized Markets of Europe, the Country Manager, Switzerland will lead the expansion efforts critical to maximizing the opportunity for Revolution Medicines (RevMed) innovation to help patients. In collaboration with the regional leadership team, the successful catalytic leader will develop and execute commercial and operational strategy to accelerate the engagement with key stakeholders and customers (government authorities, regulatory authorities, payer authorities, KOLs) in Switzerland as well as all necessary constituencies to support expansion into the European region - ensuring that reimbursement and access considerations are integrated in the existing and future clinical program design of the company portfolio / pipeline. The incumbent will be responsible for developing pre-launch and commercialization strategic plans for Switzerland and providing Swiss-specific input into lifecycle plans across the RevMed portfolio.  This individual will have full accountability for the Switzerland P&L, all Switzerland operations and will ensure official, fiduciary, corporate, legal and compliance requirements are met locally and for the European region respectively. 

Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute comprehensive plans for the company’s expansion in Switzerland.

• Develop and manage the Switzerland P&L including the budget for operations, ensuring optimal resource allocation.

• As dictated by the commercialization strategy, build and lead the required multifunctional management team, working with corporate functional leaders to ensure that each team member and business function execute against the clear and well-aligned business objectives.

• Lead the planning and execution of product launches in Switzerland, including PEL, market access strategies, pricing, medical affairs atrategy, disease area and marketing strategy, and where appropriate, early access programs.

• Lead the Swiss Government/Corporate Affairs efforts ensuring the successful execution of global and European strategies, advocating for policies that promote patient access. Cultivate and maintain strategic relationships with government entities, patient organizations, healthcare providers, industry associations, and medical societies through innovative engagement programs.

• Represent the company in Swiss healthcare policy forums and industry associations, collaborate with peers to shape collective positions and advocate for patient centered policies.

• Evaluate the competitive environment and understand the profile of portfolio compounds and the patients to serve to identify opportunities and challenges in the oncology market across Europe and other key markets.

• Set key launch and financial performance metrics including revenue, profitability etc.

• Provide Switzerland input for Mid-Sized Markets, Regional and Global Clinical Development Plans.

• Support the Clinical Operations team by ensuring appropriate Swiss site selection, quality and enrollment in-line with regulatory/compliance requirements.

• Co-lead with Finance, Legal, and Commercial, the selection and contract negotiation with any local distributor and Trade 3^rd parties and upon completion of contract, oversee and be accountable for successful execution and achievement of goals by the distributor.

• Support the effective negotiation of consultant/agency contracts for timely and cost-effective services in various business areas to support pre-launch and launch activities.

• Foster a culture within the Mid-Sized markets leadership team, regional and global team consistent with the global RevMed values and vision/mission.

• Build, lead, and develop the country organization, including medical, access, sales, marketing, and customer-facing roles as the business scales.

• Establish commercial processes, governance, and ways of working as part of the country build-out.

• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and performance excellence.

• Establish country governance, risk management, and compliance framework and SOPs.

• Ensure all activities comply with local regulations, industry codes, and internal company policies.

Required Skills, Experience and Education:

• Advanced degree in life sciences, business administration, or a related field.

• Minimum 15 years of proven experience in leadership roles within the biopharmaceutical industry in the field of oncology.

• In-depth knowledge of the Swiss pharmaceutical market, access, pricing and regulatory environment.

• Organizational and P&L leadership experience in Switzerland required.

• Proven track record shaping and executing country strategy and influencing policy at a senior industry level.

• Proven experience building and developing a high performing cross-functional team is a must.

• Proven leadership and people management capabilities; demonstrated success in small but fast growing, entrepreneurial commercial environment.

• In depth knowledge of Swissmedic, approval and early access mechanisms of medicinal products in Switzerland.

• Fluency in both verbal and written English and German; French and/or Italian is an advantage.

• Ability to create and nurture a strong culture of collaboration and authenticity to extend and replicate the RevMed culture.

• Proven success in building effective relationships with internal stakeholders, regional authorities, and vendors.

• Highly organized and motivated individual possessing excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.

• Strong leadership and influencing skills with the ability to create a clear sense of direction.

• Thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic small company environment and able to roll out the sleeves to get things done.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with an oncology launch in Switzerland is desired.

• Serve as business partners to Development and Clinical Operations functions.

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Workload: 100%, Sector : Energy / Natural Gas, Work location: Geneva (Switzerland)

Job description

Picarro is looking for a customer-facing Field Application (FAE)/Technical support Engineer (TSE) to become a key member of our Energy Team and contribute to the development in Europe, especially Italy.

She or he will have a hands-on approach, a strong technical acuity, and a willingness to drive customer satisfaction. This person will be responsible for providing technical support, installation, reparation, and maintenance on equipment, answering customers’ requirements and issues, and supporting post sales activity within major utility companies. She/he will also interface with new customers to organize and carry out field demonstrations and field trials using Picarro’s flagship products at customer sites.

Roles and Responsibilities

The Picarro FAE team services our natural gas utility customers providing high quality customer support both on-site and remotely. The FAE will be the primary technical support champion for the customers.

The primary responsibilities of the FAE are to provide technical support and support Picarro customers with their field organization. The FAE supports customer’s install base and develops a broad understanding of customer requirements and concerns, positions and adapts the capabilities of Picarro’s Natural Gas Asset Management solutions. The candidate will be trained to acquire a comprehensive understanding of the system technology and the ability to adapt the functionalities to the customer business case.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the installation and testing of the Picarro system for enterprise customers on system deployments.
• Respond to technical support requests and technical questions, fix technical issues remotely or onsite.
• Provide a comprehensive diagnose of the system through remote diagnosis and debugging.
• Fix technical issues (hardware and software) and organize timely replacement of parts.
• Manage spare inventory and related logistics activities.
• Support on-site customer projects.
• Address field questions and respond appropriately by providing detailed technical answers along with technical documentation as required.
• Log Customer issues and track resolutions.
• Perform Quality control of operations and ensure process and procedures are maintained.
• Develop strong customer relationships with key accounts.
• Create data deliverables (reports, dashboards).
• Upon circumstances, customer support might be required during evenings (2pm – 10pm) and weekends (6pm – 10pm)
• Prepare technical documentation and procedures.
• Provide training and documentation for Support Level 1 and Support Level 2.
• Manage the periodic maintenance of the Picarro systems.

Desired Skills and Experience

Field applications engineers need a wide range of skills and a solid technical base. Because field application engineers provide technical support, they must be able to summarize and communicate issues in a synthetic manner and share them at various levels of the organization. They also must be familiar with technical product specifications and be able to point out the specific technical merits of our solution. Customer relationship skills are critically important in this role. Because customers want to be assured that the technology is reliable, the field applications engineer must be able to back up technical claims.

• Field experience or hands-on practice or knowledge of multi-disciplinary system design and development (systems such as electrical, electronics, computerized, mechanical, optical or a combination of these)
• Experience working in a customer facing role.
• Good knowledge and understanding of system engineering process, engineering designs and control systems.
• The ability to travel frequently to customer sites (Italy and/or abroad) on short notice is required.
• Comfortable in dealing with complex, abstract, or vague problems. Analytical skills to apprehend complex configurations with multiple failure causes.
• Strong skills in organization, timely delivery and independence are required.
• Clean, detailed, and clear documentation practitioner.
• Experience in project management is an asset.
• Be proactive as a customer advocate, looking for and solving problems before they surface.
• Ability to effectively communicate technical information to non-technical audiences. Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Results-oriented team player with a “make it happen” attitude and drive for success in a fast-paced environment. Ability and affinity to respond quickly.
• Energetic, highly motivated, unmatched drive and strong ability to influence others.
• Demonstrate the necessary skills to negotiate issues with peers, partners and customers using a Win/Win philosophy.

Language Skills

• English & Italian: full proficiency – Required/Mandatory
• French – an Asset

Qualifications

• Graduate / Post-Graduate in engineering or science discipline (e.g. BE / BSc / MCA, etc.)
• Experience in a customer facing technical support role
• Additional technical and professional credentials relating to the job requirement skills are advantageous.
• Driving license

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, protected veteran status, gender identity, social orientation, nor based on disability.

About Picarro

Picarro is a profitable Greentech company backed by prime venture capitalists in the Silicon-Valley. Picarro has about 350 employees with customers worldwide. We are a global company with our head office in the US (Silicon Valley) and offices in Switzerland, Netherlands and Beijing.

Picarro has been working for the last 20 years in revolutionizing the understanding of climate change and global carbon, water and nitrogen cycles by designing new instruments to meet the requirements of scientists and the industry.  In the past 10 years, Picarro has further developed its expertise in developing analytical solutions, data-rich algorithms, atmospheric modelling and data interpretation systems to simplify the complexity of environmental interactions and turning complex processes into meaningful and actionable insights. Our goal is to provide analytical services and solutions that drive efficiency in industrial processes and help mitigate climate change. 

We are today the world’s leading producer of greenhouse gas and stable-isotopes measurement instruments for a wide variety of scientific and industrial applications, including environmental and climate change research, air quality, energy and more specifically natural gas distribution networks and industrial airborne molecular contamination control (semiconductor and pharmaceutical). We’ve been awarded the World Economic Forum (WEF) Technology Pioneer 2012 award, got written up in the New York Times, winner of Wall Street Journal R&D awards and many more.

Natural Gas Network Management – a Digital Revolution

With regulations on pipeline safety being revised and tightened, pipeline operators are now looking at innovation to improve their asset management efficiency, relying on new, predictive tools to optimize network maintenance and assist in decisions for proactive replacement of assets within their infrastructure. The recent increase of objects connected to platforms gathering large amounts of data with powerful data analytics capabilities has given rise to a new way of approaching pipeline asset integrity. The Picarro Asset Management solution is part of this digital revolution and has been designed to meet next generation challenges to improve natural gas asset integrity management.

Picarro’s mobile natural gas detection technology allows natural gas data to be collected at a speed and scale not previously possible. Advances in “Big Data” Analytics allow better-informed conclusions to be drawn from that data. Picarro Asset management solution is used to improve network safety, natural gas sustainability and asset operational excellence.

https://naturalgas.picarro.com/

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, protected veteran status, gender identity, social orientation, nor on the basis of disability.

Posted positions are not open to third party recruiters/agencies and unsolicited resume submissions will be considered free referrals.