Biotech Health and Life Leadership Competencies Project Report

This project solution focuses on defining leadership competencies aligned with Biotech Health and Life Products' core values: customer-centricity, innovation, knowledge, and sustainability. The project includes a job announcement for a team leader, emphasizing relational leadership with purpose, inclusiveness, empowerment, and ethical considerations. The announcement details required qualifications such as a Master's degree in sales and management, excellent communication skills, and knowledge of biotech products. The solution also provides a leadership competence table, linking core values to specific leadership competencies like efficient communication, valuing consumer perspectives, and maintaining organizational values. The aim is to illustrate the leadership style required for the sales and marketing department, highlighting the importance of ethics, employee empowerment, and aligning individual goals with the company's mission.

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Job Announcement
Job Title: Team leader
Company: Biotech Health and Life Products
Location: Yonkers, New York, Detroit, Michigan, Los Lunas, New Mexico, Chicago,
Illinois and Atlanta, Georgia, Wittllch, Germany, Baltimore, Ireland, Melbourne, Australia,
Sao Paulo, Brazil, Alberta, Canada.
Salary: 62,000 – 70,000
Job Type: Mid-level Management
Job Description:
The team leader will be responsible for leading, managing and guiding the team
members of biotech engineering, combining the “soft” skills of leadership with the “hard”
skill of the management while following the relational leadership model with purpose,
inclusive, empowering, organizational ethic and process. Situational adaptation is the core
concern for the leader of Biotech Health and Life Products. The position requires that the
leaders encourage the team members to come up with innovative ideas and solutions within a
cooperative environment, where each employee has specific opinion about any new decision.
Biotech Health and Life Products is dealing with worldwide consumer base. Currently, an
experienced Leader is required for the sales team to accomplish the mission, vision, business
objectives of Biotech Health and Life Products. This position also requires a driven,
ambitious, experienced applicant.
Qualification: Master Degree in sales and management with more than 5 years of experience
are required. Applicant must have excellent communication skill, client relationship
management expertise and knowledge in Biotech product and services.

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Explanatory Element
The major focus of the Job announcement was to reflect the leadership style which is
required in that specific position in Biotech Health and Life Products Company. The
definition of required leadership style has been made in a way that can explain the
importance of company’s, value, ethics, mission and vision within the particular leadership
role (Hemlin, 2006). The chosen position was leader of sales and marketing department of
Biotech Health and Life Products. The sales and marketing department requires regular
communication with the consumer in post-purchasing, purchasing and pre-purchasing phase.
In all these phase the employees of sales department should affectivity convince the customer
about the company’s quality of service and benefit while helping the customers in their
choice and purchasing decision making (Hesselbein & Shinseki, 2004).
The tone of the job description displayed the significance of the roles and
responsibilities of the leader in sales department (Forbes.com., 2016).). The expectation of
the company from a candidate or potential leader in sales department has been also described
in brief and précised way. As per the Job description, the leader of sales and marketing
department needs the psychology and attitude to share the operational ethics with the team
members that also increases the work efficiency of the members (Kouzes & Posner, 2002). At
the same time, the process of the systematic execution has been defined with four major
components namely Inclusiveness, Purpose, Empowering and ethical motive. The process of
the leadership should be directly regulate by the three basic components, such as
inclusiveness, work ethics and empowerment. Inclusiveness allows the leader as well as the
team to have the ability to closely observe the team performance, constrains, functionality,
weakness and potential growth (deloitte.com., 2014).

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Empowering refers the activities of motivating team members towards their work
process and objectives while assessing their weakness for the betterment. Empowering the
team allows increasing the performance of each team members and the collaborative work
culture within the team. Ethical issue should be focused on the business morale and vision of
Biotech Health and Life Products. The professional morale of the individual team member
has to be maintained while making them aligned with the ethical considerations, code of
conducts of the company (Bennis & Thomas, 2002). Throughout the process and the three
basic components, namely Inclusive, Empower and Ethics, the only controller and regulator
should be the purpose of the organization (Gandossy & Effron, 2004). The purpose of the
organisation defines the mission, business goal and objectives of the Biotech Health and Life
Products.
The Job description also mentioned the need of biotech knowledge for the sales and
marketing team leader. Biotech Health and Life Products is a company which provides safe,
effective, affordable and genuine products to the customer including Protein and Fitness;
Personal Care, Nutraceuticals, Vitamins and Food Supplements (Kirkpatrick & Locke, 1991).
Therefore, to assist the customer in pre-purchasing phase and to maintain a strong
relationship after the purchasing process will require a strong knowledge in these kinds of
products (shrm.org., 2014). Apart from that, the excellent communication skill will be helpful
to interact with the customer with most efficiency.

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Leadership Competence Table
Biotech Core Value Leadership Competencies Source
Customer-centricity Efficient Communication Hemlin, S. (2006).
Valuing consumer perspective Kouzes, J. M., &
Posner, B. Z. (2002)
Identifying consumer’s needs Hemlin, S. (2006).
Innovation Maintain Organisational mission, vision and
shared values
Bennis, W. G., &
Thomas, R. J. (2002).
Prioritise the organisational structure and
culture
Hesselbein
& Shinseki, (2004)
Encourage and Emphasise the exchange of
ideas
Bennis, W. G., &
Thomas, R. J. (2002).
Knowledge Prioritising the Biotech value system Bennis, W. G., &
Thomas, R. J. (2002).
Valuing the long time loyal employees
Detailed information about products and related
services
Gandossy, R., &
Effron, M. (2004)
Sustainability
(for profit and
planet)
Company commitment and morale issues Hesselbein
& Shinseki, (2004)
“for profit” and “for planet” based business
growth
Biotech case study
Housing for several communities Biotech Case study

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