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Senior Director Business Development

Hawthorne Effect

Hawthorne Effect

Sales & Business Development
United States
Posted on Apr 18, 2025

About Us

Hawthorne Health is the industry’s leading community site network, strategically embedded in the heart of communities to accelerate patient access, improve retention, and reduce study costs. With a network of more than 1,000 community site locations and 2,000 GCP-trained research clinicians, all seamlessly connected by intelligent technology, Hawthorne Health ensures that the right patients are reached at the right time, everywhere.

Committed to making clinical trials accessible and convenient for all patients, Hawthorne Health delivers compliant, high-quality clinical studies within local communities. The traditional clinical trial site model is fragmented, cumbersome, and costly. By eliminating these barriers, Hawthorne Health enables scalable, cost-effective, and patient-centric trials. This model accelerates study timelines, helping bring life-changing treatments to market faster, smarter, and more efficiently.

About the Role

Hawthorne Health is seeking a successful hunter and closer who thrives on engaging prospects to become clients, relentlessly working to grow revenue and customer success.

This role will help grow the core business with our current enterprise customers and expand with new customers. The individual must have a proven track record of success at closing complex solutions into the healthcare space with pharmaceutical / medical device companies. Understanding the full journey of our multiple customer types from doctors to patients to pharmaceutical / device companies to our HEROs is a critical element of our success.

This person will be a key player in the commercial team and will be responsible for identifying, segmenting, engaging, and converting qualified enterprise prospects into paying customers according to a quarterly and annual quota. We are looking for a skilled communicator and presenter who can find the best fit between client and product. The ideal candidate will be organized, passionate about client relations, and focused on enhancing the buyer experience. This role will report to the Chief Commercial Officer.

Responsibilities

  • Drive the growth by identifying, segmenting, engaging, and converting new qualified enterprise prospects into paying customers according to a quota
  • Serve as a subject matter expert in community-based clinical trials
  • Collaborate with the commercial and clinical operations teams throughout the sales process from lead to post-sales support
  • Excite our customers in how we are transforming the way clinical trials are conducted in the patient’s home or community leveraging our platform, our Hero network
  • Partner with Project Managers to identify and pursue new business opportunities within current accounts
  • Respond to RFI’s and RFP’s that illustrate Hawthorne Health’s unique value prop
  • Be a trusted partner to the product team. Relay customer, sales and market insights, to help inform product roadmap decisions and strategy

What You’ll Bring

  • 8+ years of successful enterprise Sales or Business Development selling to pharma and biotech clinical operations decision makers
  • Strong understanding of clinical trials with pharmaceutical / medical device companies
  • Excellent communicator with proven ability to show value and explain new technology in clear, easy to understand terms to executives
  • Solid understanding of enterprise business models and ecosystems
  • Expertise in acquiring new business, account development, and organizational excellence
  • Strong track record achieving annual growth targets
  • Self-starter who can own projects from start to finish with minimal guidance
  • Experience using prospecting tools, including CRM
  • Experience working with diverse remote teams and clients
  • Deep understanding of clinical trials with pharmaceutical / medical device companies is greatly preferred but not required
  • Great collaborator with willingness & drive to help teammates to succeed
  • Entrepreneurial spirit and confidence to pick up and lead new projects

To find out more about Hawthorne Health, visit: https://hawthornehealth.com