Redefining Commercial Coverage
Maximize Customer Lifetime Value with New Commercial Models
Welcome to the dynamic world of pharma services where innovation meets excellence to address the evolving needs across the market and customers. The industry has experienced a significant boom and return to normal over the past three years, requiring organizations to improve their go-to-market coverage models across business development, sales and project delivery teams.
What are the critical go-to-market strategies and investments for pharma services organizations as they look to maximize customer retention and increase new customer acquisitions to accelerate growth?
Alexander Group can help navigate these complex challenges by offering innovative solutions.
How We Help
- Understand TAM, SAM, SOM across your regions, customers and potential prospects. Create account targets for your business development and sales teams to prioritize time and be more efficient.
- Transform customer-facing and enablement teams, including marketing, sales and delivery. Understand pragmatic coverage models, balancing portfolio coverage, specialty (e.g., applications, therapeutic areas), scale and cost.
- Clearly define the functions, activities, roles and responsibilities across strategic, product, and downstream marketing teams. Establish best-in-class operating model, campaign management, NPI processes, and success metrics.
- Streamline the handoff process between sales and project management & delivery teams, clearly defining responsibilities to ensure smooth and efficient service.
- Invest in commercial enablement teams to integrate customer-facing teams, act as a strategic advisor, drive commercial efficiency, and enable your commercial talent.
- Develop sales compensation and quota programs to motivate and achieve more aggressive business goals. Create incentives and performance metrics that align with your company’s overall business objectives, motivating sales teams to exceed their targets.
Related Insights
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Briefing Offers- Artificial Intelligence in Sales Nearly 50% of surveyed sales leaders are using AI-enabled tools for sales forecasting and over 30% are using AI for sales performance analytics and quota setting. How is AI being implemented to drive sales productivity and profitability?
- Life Sciences Roles & Account Coverage Study Are your role and coverage strategies aligned for productivity and profitability? With the forecasted comeback, how are leaders determining the right roles and account coverage strategies to align resources by customer, product and industry end-markets? Get a full readout of the findings from this study.
- Life Sciences Industry Trends: Strategies | Insights | Metrics As Life Sciences and Analytical Instruments commercial leaders capitalize on near-term growth, they must also evaluate the market trends that will impact progress as they plan for the next three to five years. Industry executives recently provided their perspectives on the two key imperatives they are operating under to accelerate growth and take market share.
Upcoming Life Sciences Events
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Sales Compensation Symposium: Virtual
Industry Focus: AllRevolutionize your approach at the #1 event for sales compensation professionals and all executives who care about sales comp. Designed specifically for senior executives, join industry peers and renowned experts to gain exclusive access to cutting-edge research, emerging trends, real-world case studies and proven best practices in governance, design and administration.
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Tuesday, August 11, 2026 –
Tuesday, August 11, 2026 -
Virtual
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Incentive ROI: Evaluating the Health of Your Sales Compensation Programme
EMEA Virtual RoundtableAugust 12, 2026 | 16:00 – 17:00 GMT
Before your next compensation cycle, leaders should be asking one critical question: Is your sales compensation program working?
Join us virtually on Aug.12 for a tactical health check revealing what’s helping or hindering success.
Alexander Group prepared an interactive session that will provide participants with a practical framework to assess the health of their current plans, benchmark against industry best practices and identify opportunities for improvement.
Session Objectives
- Benchmark your current sales compensation program against a proven health check framework
- Evaluate performance across the five tenets of a world-class sales compensation program.
- Assess plan design against market leading guidelines.
- Identify gaps, risks and opportunities for enhancement.
- Improve your ability to attract, motivate, reward and retain top sales talent.
- Develop actionable next steps to strengthen your program for 2027 and beyond.
Building on the insights shared during the programme health check session, attendees will have the opportunity to hear from peers, explore common challenges and develop actionable strategies to optimise their sales compensation programmes to better attract, motivate, reward and retain top sales talent.
Come prepared to assess your own programme, compare your approach against proven best practices and actively participate in peer discussions. Bring your questions, challenges and experiences to gain practical insights and leave with a clear action plan to strengthen your sales compensation strategy for 2027 and beyond.
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Wednesday, August 12, 2026
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Virtual
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Sales Compensation Symposium: Chicago
Industry Focus: AllRevolutionize your approach at the #1 event for sales compensation professionals and all executives who care about sales comp.
Designed specifically for executives in HR, Compensation, Sales and Revenue Operations that want to use sales comp more effectively.Industry Focus: All
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Thursday, August 27, 2026 –
Thursday, August 27, 2026 -
Chicago
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Executive Forum
St. Regis Hotel | Chicago, ILJoin senior sales, marketing, commercial and operations leaders to share stories of transformation, connect 1:1 virtually and take away actionable ideas.
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Wednesday, September 30, 2026 –
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St. Regis Hotel | Chicago, IL
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The Art of Sales Coverage
Discover how leaders are reconfiguring go-to-market models to ensure the right roles and account coverage resources are in place.
Practice Leadership
Alexander Group Can Help
How can you build upon your existing strengths to create value and reinvigorate differentiated, above market growth?