Technical Sales Manager

Experienced Pharmaceuticals Technical Sales Manager looking to further develop their career required for a well-established chemical distributor in the West Midlands.

Title: Technical Sales Manager – Pharmaceuticals

Location: Remote, occasional requirement on site in West Midlands office

Salary: £55,000 - £65,000 (dependent upon experience) + benefits

Term: Permanent

SRG is partnering with a leading distributor in the West Midlands, who offer a wide range of innovative raw materials and custom synthesis services to manufacturers and innovators in the pharmaceutical and biotech markets. With a big focus on innovation, collaboration and customer centricity, they have a well-known reputation for success in the market.

Our client believes that delivering value starts with their people. By placing employee development at the heart of everything they do, they empower teams to grow, innovate and excel in their roles. This commitment not only enhances individual potential but also drives the exceptional service and solutions their customers deserve, ensuring they consistently exceed expectations and set new standards of excellence.

Adopting a value-based sales approach, you will travel extensively across the UK and Ireland, regularly meeting customers to continually build, develop and grow customer relationships across pharmaceutical and biotech innovators and manufacturers.

With several existing customers, the role will be approximately 70/30 business development-account management.

Benefits: Company car, 20% bonus (purely based on individual performance), company credit card and private healthcare amongst other benefits.

Role / Description

• Identifying, contacting and developing new business using a variety of methods
• Promoting the company’s custom synthesis service capabilities
• Growing market presence across the UK & Ireland pharmaceutical and biotech industries
• Growing existing customer relationships to ensure customer satisfaction and ultimately look to increase account spend
• Travelling approximately 1/3 of your time across the UK & Ireland to visit customer sites
• Generating leads to identify new potential customers across the UK & further afield
• Maintaining and updating the database to build a national customer pool
• Keeping abreast of product development & trends in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.

Requirements

• Direct experience in consultative and technical sales of custom synthesis services, excipients or adjuvants to the pharmaceutical and/or biotech industries
• Degree-level qualified (or equivalent) in Chemistry, ideally with a focus on Organic Chemistry
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Willing, and excited, to travel 1/3 of your time across the whole of the UK
• Full, clean UK driving licence
• A proactive approach and drive to deliver exceptional customer service.

If you would like to apply for this position, please use the link provided. Alternatively, please email a copy of your CV to Amy.Hallworth@srgtalent.com. For more information regarding this position or any others, please call Amy on 07979 020974. If you have a scientific background and this position is not relevant / suitable for you, please feel free to get in touch or visit www.srgtalent.com to view our other vacancies.

SRG is the UK’s number one recruitment company specialising in the scientific, engineering, clinical, pharmaceutical, food/FMCG, energy & renewables, biotech, chemical and medical device sectors.

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