Business Development Manager – (Pharma and Biotech)

Salary: £30,000 – £36,000 per year

Business Development Manager (Pharma and Biotech)
Home Based (with time spent at the Southampton and Camberley offices and international travel)

About Us

We are Novacyt, a rapidly growing diagnostics group specialising in infectious diseases. We have a number of successful brands and serve a large global customer base, from hospitals to large corporates.

Under our brand, Primerdesign, we have delivered exceptional products to combat formidable challenges. We developed the world’s first swine flu detection kit, played an important part in uncovering the UK’s horse meat scandal and are currently producing high-performing detection kits to support the fight against COVID-19.

We’re currently looking for a Business Development Manager to join us and create opportunities for our solutions portfolio within the Pharma and Biotech space.

The Benefits

– Competitive salary
– Private medical insurance
– Group pension scheme
– Life assurance
– 25 days’ holiday per annum
– The ability to buy and sell annual leave
– Cycle scheme
– Refer a friend scheme

If you have a background of sales success within the Pharma sector, this is the ideal role in which to utilise your existing knowledge and skills to advance your career and support our thriving organisation in achieving our ambitious targets.

We have a history of leading from the front when it comes to tackling some of the world’s biggest healthcare challenges, and today it’s no different. We have an outstanding portfolio of products and we need the right people to promote these within the market.

So, if you are ready for a career-defining role where you can make a difference to healthcare whilst advancing professionally, this is the role you’ve been waiting for.

The Role

As a Business Development Manager, you will be responsible for creating sales of our product portfolio with particular focus on the development of customised assay solutions for CDx and MDx. This will include high throughput screening solutions and the development of strategic partnerships within this area.

Identifying key stakeholders in targeted organisations, you will utilise them to identify new product development areas that will help us to fulfil our ambitious growth targets.

This home-based role will see you spending some time at our Southampton and Camberley offices and undertaking international travel (when restrictions allow) to develop and deliver on sales targets.

You’ll be selling our B2B portfolio of products, undertaking assay development, offering consultancy and creating opportunities for our manufacturing services, OEM and private label portfolio.

Your role will also involve:

– Working with Pharma and Biotech companies and kit manufacturers on kit, product or component sales opportunities
– Developing your pipeline of newly launched products
– Supporting wider group sales teams
– Working with our BDD on long-term and R&D critical opportunities

About You

To be considered as a Business Development Manager, you will need:

– A history of achieving sales targets
– Experience in assay development and collaborative service in the Pharma sector
– A proven track record selling contract, large ticket items and/or negotiating strategic partnerships
– Target driven or revenue-driven personality traits
– High motivation levels
– To be a driven sales professional

Experience with SalesForce CRM would be beneficial to your application. Experience with molecular IVD products would also be an advantage, as would experience with PCR based products. Experience with CDx, MDx services would also be desirable, as would any additional language skills (alongside fluency in English).

Other organisations may call this role BDM, Pharma Sales Manager, Biotech Sales Manager, or Healthcare Sales Manager.

Webrecruit and Novacyt are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

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