Senior Regional Account Manager

 

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Your role:

The Senior Account Manager is an experienced field based commercial role selling MilliporeSigma’s Biosafety Testing Services to customers across the East Coast. You understand the industry well and proactively identify and understand client needs to potentially impact organizational results. Life Science Solution Services (LSS) is the world's largest provider of pharma and biopharma GMP manufacturing and biologics safety testing. Exceptional industry knowledge and sales skills are required to promote and sell in the territory to achieve or exceed the sales targets. You would be able to work remotely while proactively driving growth in the sales territory, by being highly self-motivated, assertive, and well organized, with excellent time management. You would be able to build relationships, communicate clearly and be collaborative.

• Ensure that the quarterly and annual target is achieved, by gaining and maintaining market share through competitive conversions, customer expansions, and timely reaction to customer inquiries
• Develop a detailed strategic plan to manage your territory; maintain, protect, and seed your business for both short- and long-term revenue growth
• Know and be known by your customers; maintain regular presence within territory
• Identify your customer’s needs/goals/challenges and provide solutions to fulfill their needs through the proper positioning of Biosafety Testing services and/or knowledge/expertise
• Inform, train and influence customers
• Identify and map the key stakeholders and decision makers around projects and opportunities in your territory
• Secure targeted meetings to identify and advance opportunities with your customers
• Lead and organize internal partners around presenting to, or supporting your customers; provide input and direction on content, customer needs/drivers, audience profile, etc.
• Create and deliver presentations; coordinate appropriate resources for customer visits
• Provide, an accurate, detailed forecasts for your territory
• Utilize sales tools regularly and properly to gain efficiencies and to document customer interactions (CRM, tablets, literature, etc.)
• Work collaboratively with business partners (customer service, technical service, field marketing, technology management, demand planning, etc.)
• Travel requirement within sales territory is approximately 50%, with minimal international travel.

 

Who you are:

 

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, or related Life Science discipline       
• At least 8 years of commercial sales experience in the biotech industry
• Years of experience selling services to pharma and biopharma companies, supporting biologic molecular productions
• Full understanding of the pharmaceutical and biotech drug production processes/unit operations
• Ability to generate accurate business forecasts, understand pricing and can articulate value all while effectively using negotiation tactics to increase wallet share within and organization
• Uses skillful questioning to draw out information for diagnosing a situation and anticipates areas of conflict, manages disagreement, and works toward resolution