Job Description

Role Overview

Benchling is seeking an experienced customer-facing Global Program Manager (GPM) to oversee the post-sale experience for our largest Enterprise customers. The GPM will partner closely with the Enterprise Account Executive to ensure that customers achieve rapid time to value and see the value in expanding their relationship with Benchling as they transform and modernize their R&D IT. The GPM will coordinate implementation, customer success, and customer support efforts to ensure customers have a seamless experience postsale.

Responsibilities

• Oversee postsale activities across implementation, support, customer success, and optimization services for one or more Enterprise customers.
• Partner with customer leaders and Benchling account teams to develop implementation, governance, change management, risk management, escalation management, adoption, and success plans that accelerate customer digital transformations.
• Liaise with customer leaders and be known as a diplomatic, pragmatic partner, who operates with a sense of urgency to effect a bestinclass customer experience.
• Partner with the Enterprise AE to ensure seamless customer experience and grow the account.
• Support the development of customer experience sales proposals and other services proposals with account and/or program subject matter expertise.
• Coordinate all Professional Services, Customer Success and Support activities to drive customer value, adoption, and advocacy.
• Partner with Product Management to maintain strategic engagement and alignment of customer needs with product roadmap.
• Help shape the longterm strategy and vision for the Enterprise services business.
• Inspire your crossfunctional account team to accelerate our growth within the worlds largest biopharma companies by delivering exceptional customer experiences.
• Be seen as a trusted advisor who has the customers best interests in mind, even when it means having a hard conversation.
• Mentor, coach, and champion your crossfunctional account team as you help them grow their professional skills.
• Contribute meaningfully to running a profitable services business that doesnt sacrifice quality or customer success in doing so.
• Be a respected crossfunctional partner to our Sales, Solutions, and Product teams, known for fairly advocating for both the customer and Benchling.

Qualifications

• Passionate about and experienced working with Life Sciences companies with an understanding of R&D processes and scientific concepts. Must be able to confidently engage and build trust with scientific, informatics, IT, and Director/VP level audiences in top20 Biotech and Pharma companies.
• Accountable and able to thrive in a fastpaced environment. Strong executive presence and success in a matrixed environment where you have accountability without authority.
• At least 10+ years of clientfacing implementation, program leadership and/or consulting experience, with a demonstrated record of successfully running large scale programs, ideally in the Life Sciences or Biotechnology sponsor or software space.
• Proven ability to lead large crossfunctional postsale teams to deliver transformational change with superior relationship, project management, organizational, and commercial skills. This includes work across professional services, customer support, customer success, product, marketing, strategy, and sales.
• Experienced in program and project management for multiworkstream enterprise SaaS deployments including scope management, budget control, project and executive reporting, and project financials.
• Experience in services commercials including SOWs, budgeting, resourcing, and change orders.
• Excellent interpersonal skills in verbal, written and presentation formats and experience presenting to the Csuite.
• Ability to work at customer site, or in the Boston office based on customer and project needs.
• BS or advanced degree in Biology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Biotechnology, Bioengineering or similar life science field preferred, or equivalent professional experience working with Life Sciences R&D processes and/or healthcare technology.

Nice to Have

• GxP experience including software validation (CSV) at a life sciences or biotech company and/or vertical SaaS software company.

How We Work

We offer a flexible hybrid work arrangement that prioritizes inoffice collaboration. Employees are expected to be onsite 3 days per week (Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday).

SALARY RANGE

• ZONE 1: $178,500 - $241,500
• ZONE 2: $160,650 - $217,350
• ZONE 3: $151,725 - $205,275

Total Compensation

• Competitive salary and equity
• Broad range of medical, dental, and vision plans for employees and their dependents
• Fertility healthcare and familyforming benefits
• Four months of fully paid parental leave
• 401(k) + Employer Match
• Commuter benefits for inoffice employees and a generous homeoffice setup stipend for remote employees
• Mental health benefits, including therapy and coaching, for employees and their dependents
• Monthly Wellness stipend
• Learning and development stipend
• Generous and flexible vacation
• Companywide Winter holiday shutdown
• Sabbaticals for 5year and 10year anniversaries

Benchling welcomes everyone.

We believe diversity enriches our team so we hire people with a wide range of identities, backgrounds, and experiences. We are an equal opportunity employer. That means we dont discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

Please be aware that Benchling will never request personal information, payment, or sensitive details outside of Greenhouse or via email. All official communications will come from an @benchling.com email address or from an approved vendor alias. If you are contacted by someone claiming to represent Benchling and are unsure of their legitimacy, please reach out to us at recruiting-fraud-alert@benchling.com to verify the communication.

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