Sales Specialist Cell Culture (m/f) Job (Homebased / South Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Germany)

GE Healthcare Life Sciences provides products and services used as tools for biopharmaceutical manufacturing, drug discovery and the latest in cellular technologies, thereby enabling our customers around the world to be more productive, effective and creative. Our motivation is to create better health for more people: through our five decades of supporting the biopharmaceutical industry and its research partners to become more productive, we are helping to reduce costs, increase access and improve quality in the healthcare system. We use our expertise and know-how in imaginative ways to work with our customers to provide what’s needed today and create products and solutions to enable the medical treatments of tomorrow.

• Maximize sales orders, margin, market share, customer satisfaction of the Hyclone product portfolio and business solutions in assigned area.
  
• Develop good long term customer relationships, and high customer satisfaction whilst utilizing to optimum level resources in the team and GE Life Science businesses.
  
• Provide support during and post sales of the Hyclone product range and business solutions to customers within area.
  
• Organize product evaluations, sites visits and follow up.
  
• Prepare and co-ordinate the tender/contract response with relevant business partners and validate in collaboration with modality manager.
  
• Track market effectively and provide accurate current and forecasts data using information tools available.
  
• Communicate market information effectively to/from the field including competitor data.
  
• Communicate effectively with members of sales/marketing/service team to maximize all sales potential and communicates leads to relevant colleagues.
  
• Generates, record and maintain customer profiles, including keeping track of key decision makers.
  
• Ensures knowledge of and compliance with Company policies and quality processes
  

• Graduate or BSc degree in a life science or closely related field
  
• Experience of technical sales and/or working within the Bio-Processing industry; Bio-Technical/Life Sciences/Pharmaceutical and/or Bio-Pharmaceutical industries
  
• Knowledge of cell culture production, upstream/downstream processes etc.
  
• Direct selling experience in a complex competitive Industrial environment essential
  
• Fluency in German and English (written & spoken)
  
• Good communication, interpersonal and negotiating skills and high ability to work in a team
  

• Team working skills (incl. Ability to harness resources to achieve goal)
  
• Presentation skills