The Role
Sell bioprocessing products, systems, and flexible solutions to biopharmaceutical customers. Manage strategic accounts, develop sales pipelines and territory strategies, lead complex capital equipment and consumable opportunities, and support customer projects involving scale-up, technology transfer, validation, and commercial manufacturing. Build relationships across manufacturing, engineering, procurement, process development, and quality teams while managing forecasts, CRM activity, technical presentations, negotiations, trade shows, and competitive displacement initiatives. The role requires strong bioprocess knowledge, strategic account management, and extensive domestic travel.
Summary Generated by Built In
The primary role will be to sell an expanding portfolio of highly differentiable, high-value products and flexible solutions that address critical steps in the production of biologic drugs, gene therapy and cell therapy - to new and existing Biopharmaceutical customers. This role is responsible for strategic biopharmaceutical accounts management and drive both consumable and system-based business opportunities across the full bioprocess workflow.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
- Develop sales strategies and sales plan in the assigned sales territory to drive growth and profitability.
- Actively seeks leads and opportunities to build and manage a robust sales pipeline.
- Promote and sell a portfolio of upstream, downstream, and single use products; be able to articulate key differentiators and value proposition of company products
- Play an active role in driving market research, major customer projects, new product launches and new product development initiatives
- Implementation of marketing plans within the assigned sales area (e.g., organization of road shows, seminars, promotions, development of sales collateral) in coordination with marketing team.
- Ensure compliance of sales processes including recording and monitoring lead management, sales activities, and funnel management through SalesForce.com.
- Establish and maintain Strategic Key Account relationships
- Develop close collaboration with various internal stakeholders.
- Provide accurate and timely sales reporting and forecasting in CRM system.
- Maintain contact with key market infrastructure partners and identify new sales and business opportunities
- Be the customer and market advocate to the internal organization
- Interface with Business and Market Development to ensure that appropriate product, market, and competitive information is shared in an accurate and timely manner
- Support the development of sales collateral
- Provide Manufacturing and QA/QC operations with timely information to support forecasting, customer complaint handling and facility audits
- Execute all aspects of field sales activity to include customer visits, technical presentations, laboratory demonstrations and quote negotiation.
- Attend, manage and follow up on trade show activities to generate leads.
- Involve or lead projects and assignments as part of the professional development opportunity.
- Drive strategic system and consumable opportunities including filtration, TFF, chromatography and single-use technologies.
- Support customer projects involving scale-up, technology transfer, validation, and commercial manufacturing activities.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders across manufacturing, engineering, process development, procurement and QA teams.
- Lead commercial discussions and coordination for large-scale capital equipment and strategic projects.
- Identify competitive displacement opportunities and develop strategic account penetration plans.
QUALIFICATIONS
Education, Training & Experience
- A Bachelor’s degree or higher in a scientific (biology/biochemistry) or similar majors.
- A minimum of 8 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical or life science industries.
- A strong understanding of Cell Culture, Chromatography and Filtration is a priority. However, additional skills and understanding and Upstream and Downstream processing would also be beneficial
- Proven successful sales track record and key account management experience
- Experience managing major biopharmaceutical or CDMO accounts is preferred.
- Experience with system business, single-use technologies, and process equipment is highly preferred.
- Experience supporting complex customer projects, CDMO environments, and capital equipment opportunities is highly valued.
Knowledge, Skill, and Ability
- Excellent analytical, forecasting and management skills
- Professional, high motivation to succeed, focused and resourceful in problem solving.
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Strong technical and business acumen.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills
- Ability to prioritize and work independently to achieve defined goals
- Ability to work well within a global, cross functional teams
- Must be willing and able to work flexible hours to accommodate client schedules
- Proficient in MS Office, and Salesforce.com
- Proficient in English in listening, reading, writing, and speaking
- Up to 80% domestic travel and occasionally travel internationally
- Proven track record for +5 million USD project completion.
- Strong strategic account management capability with the ability to influence complex customer decision-making processes.
- Ability to manage long sales-cycle opportunities and multi-functional customer projects.
- Strong understanding of bioprocess manufacturing workflows from upstream to downstream operations.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or higher in biology, biochemistry, or a similar scientific major
- At least 8 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical or life sciences industries
- Strong understanding of cell culture, chromatography, and filtration
- Understanding of upstream and downstream processing
- Proven successful sales track record and key account management experience
- Experience managing major biopharmaceutical or CDMO accounts
- Experience with system business, single-use technologies, and process equipment
- Experience supporting complex customer projects, CDMO environments, and capital equipment opportunities
- Strong analytical, forecasting, communication, presentation, stakeholder management, and influencing skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office and Salesforce.com
- Professional proficiency in English
- Willingness and ability to work flexible hours to accommodate client schedules
- Ability to manage long sales-cycle opportunities and multifunctional customer projects
- Understanding of bioprocess manufacturing workflows from upstream through downstream operations
- Proven track record of completing projects exceeding 5 million USD
- Willingness to travel up to 80% domestically and occasionally internationally
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The Company
What We Do
FRAUD ALERT: Please take note that it has come to our attention that individuals purporting to work for Repligen are reaching out to prospective job applicants using fraudulent email addresses. All legitimate communications from Repligen will be sent from an individual with an email address ending in @repligen.com. If you have any concerns that a communication may be fraudulent and you would like to confirm whether it is, you may email [email protected] and someone will respond. Repligen is a bioprocessing-focused life sciences company bringing over 40 years of expertise and innovation to our customers. We are inspiring advances in bioprocessing through the development and commercialization of high-value products and flexible solutions that address critical steps in the production of biologic drugs, principally monoclonal antibodies. Repligen headquarters is in Waltham, Massachusetts and our manufacturing facilities are located around the world. We market our products globally through a direct commercial organization in the U.S., Europe and Asia, as well as through strategic partners in select markets.
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