Job Summary

Avantor is looking for a dedicated and resourceful Sales Representative to contribute in every interaction by working together with customers and internal teams to develop beneficial solutions for their business.

This role will be a full-time position with daily in person sales efforts in/near the Twin Cities, MN. If you are looking to provide higher and differentiating value not by what you sell – but by ‘How’ you sell – let’s talk!   

What we are looking for

• Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience

• Experience:

  • Strong eye for business and client relations

  • A consistent record of verifiable sales success driving growth with a consultative, strategic selling approach.

  • Experienced in working in a fast paced and targeted environment, with high team interaction, routinely interacting with customers, manufacturers and colleagues

• Collaboration Tools:

  • Microsoft Office, specifically Teams with preference for experience in Salesforce or Clikview

• Preferred Qualifications:  

  • 2+ years Business-to-business sales experience

  • Capability to effectively apply best in class selling processes (e.g. SPIN, Consultative Selling)

  • Distribution experience and a scientific background and/or having worked in a laboratory or research environment.

How you will thrive and create an impact  

• Meet/exceed IOP for sales and margin. Develop awareness / sales in the VWR Private Label range to increase margin.

• Demonstrate strategic agility in approach to customers and projects (solutions must be tailored to meet individual customer needs).

• Implement agreed strategies across defined accounts while maintaining and developing existing business.

• Drive new and existing opportunities by managing territory appropriately to maximize number of customer visits.

• Call customers frequently to create opportunities for selling the VWR portfolio of products. Understand customer profile, be able to identify trends and opportunities that will generate sales.

• Use local and global internal (cross-functional) and external contacts to help achieve targets.

• Utilize VWR CRM database to manage customer relationships, interactions and information that will increase effectiveness and aid sales.

• Planning/Forecasting: Plan, forecast and achieve objectives and Key Performance Indicators in territory/ accounts, using pre-call planning for increased effectiveness.

• Ability to take content and structure it in a way that is most appropriate for the audience and objective.

• Ability to develop mutually beneficial relationships and drive strategic conversations with Customers.

• A clear ability to handle customer interactions professionally by demonstrating excellent listening and organizational skills, and by using probing questions and reflective language to engage customers and build trust

• Outstanding interpersonal skills with the ability to manage various buyer types and personalities (e.g. technical-, user-, and economic buyers)

• Strong organizational skills that drive projects forward

• Is able to synthesize and integrate sales data to support management decisions.

• Ability to work independently and successfully manage time and territory.

• Strong ability to negotiate large account pricing strategies / contracts.

• Ability to handle difficult situations effectively.

Why Avantor? 

Dare to go further in your career. Join our global team of 14,000+ associates whose passion for discovery and determination to overcome challenges relentlessly advances life-changing science.   

The work we do changes people’s lives for the better. It brings new patient treatments and therapies to market, giving a cancer survivor the chance to walk his daughter down the aisle. It enables medical devices that help a little boy hear his mom’s voice for the first time. Outcomes such as these create unlimited opportunities for you to contribute your talents, learn new skills and grow your career at Avantor.   

We are committed to helping you on this journey through our diverse, equitable and inclusive culture which includes learning experiences to support your career growth and success. At Avantor, dare to go further and see how the impact of your contributions set science in motion to create a better world. Apply today!  

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