The Sales Manager, Korea will be responsible for driving commercial growth and expanding market adoption of Oxford Nanopore Technologies’ next-generation sequencing solutions across South Korea. The role will execute territory and account strategies to deliver agreed revenue targets, develop new business opportunities, and strengthen relationships with customers and channel partners.
Working closely with regional leadership, channel partners, applications, and technical teams, the Sales Manager will own key accounts, develop new opportunities, and ensure delivery against agreed revenue targets. This role is critical to scaling Korea revenue from an established base into a sustainable multi-million dollar market.
Key Responsibilities:
• Execute the Korea commercial strategy to deliver agreed annual revenue and growth targets
• Identify, qualify, and close new opportunities across research, clinical, and public health institutions
• Manage and grow relationships with key accounts and strategic customers
• Build and manage strong relationships with channel partners and ensuring alignment to territory priorities
• Understand customer funding cycles, procurement processes, and decision-making pathways in Korea
• Drive adoption of ONT platforms (MinION, GridION, PromethION, P2) and consumables
• Maintain accurate pipeline forecasting, opportunity tracking, and commercial reporting
• Collaborate closely with Applications, Technical Support, and Customer Service teams to ensure successful customer outcomes
• Provide market intelligence and competitive insights to regional management
Duties
Duties include, but are not limited to:
• Develop and execute a comprehensive territory sales plan aligned to the Korea growth strategy
• Manage key accounts and strategic programs, including government, hospitals, and service providers
• Support and enable channel partners through regular reviews, joint calls, and opportunity planning
• Deliver product updates, value messaging, and competitive positioning to customers and partners
• Track, record, and document all customer interactions and commercial intelligence using CRM tools
• Provide regular sales forecasts, pipeline updates, and business reviews to regional leadership
• Support regional initiatives such as workshops, seminars, and strategic customer engagements
• Represent Oxford Nanopore professionally in all customer-facing activities
• Undertake any other duties appropriate to the role and responsibilities
What We're Looking For...
- MSc degree (preferably in the Life Sciences)
- Proven track record as a commercial professional
- Experience of working under pressure with minimum supervision in a highly matrixed sales and service environment
- Experience working with CRM to track sales activity
- Knowledge of the Life Sciences
- Local knowledge of Korean best business practices
- Strong communications skills, Korean and English – written and verbal
- Good business sense and the ability to work to budgets
- Good organisational and time management skills
- Confidence and tact
- Positive, can-do attitude
- Team orientated approach to learning
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Oxford Nanopore Technologies: Our goal is to bring the widest benefits to society through enabling the analysis of anything, by anyone, anywhere. The company has developed a new generation of nanopore-based sensing technology for faster, information rich, accessible and affordable molecular analysis. The first application is DNA/RNA sequencing, and the technology is in development for the analysis of other types of molecules including proteins. The technology is used to understand and characterise the biology of humans and diseases such as cancer, plants, animals, bacteria, viruses, and whole environments. With a thriving culture of ambition and strong innovation goals, Oxford Nanopore is a UK headquartered company with global operations and customers in more than 125 countries.
Skills Required
- MSc degree (preferably in the Life Sciences)
- Proven track record as a commercial professional
- Experience of working under pressure in a highly matrixed sales environment
- Experience working with CRM to track sales activity
- Knowledge of the Life Sciences
- Local knowledge of Korean best business practices
- Strong communications skills, Korean and English
- Good business sense and ability to work to budgets
- Good organizational and time management skills
- Confidence and tact
- Positive, can-do attitude
- Team oriented approach to learning
Oxford Nanopore Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Oxford Nanopore Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Oxford Nanopore Technologies.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered good to above average across many roles, with employer-provided ranges visible for several U.S. commercial and applications positions and company materials emphasizing market‑competitive base pay. Commercial and some senior technical posts, particularly in the U.S., are positioned as competitive and often paired with strong variable components.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — All‑employee share plans in the UK and a U.S. employee stock purchase plan indicate broad access to equity as part of total reward. Company communications highlight attractive bonus and share plans that add meaningful upside beyond base pay.
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Healthcare Strength — U.S. roles indicate strong health insurance and core protections, while official materials and country overviews reference private medical coverage and wellbeing support. These elements position the health package as a notable strength alongside cash compensation.
Oxford Nanopore Technologies Insights
What We Do
Our goal is to enable the analysis of anything, anywhere, by anyone. We have developed the world’s first and only nanopore DNA and RNA sequencing platform. It’s a new generation of sequencing technology — the only one to offer: scalability to portable or ultra-high throughput formats, real-time data delivery, and the ability to elucidate rich biological data. We are aiming to disrupt the way that biological analyses are currently performed, and open up new applications that have a profound, positive impact on society. Our devices offer real-time analysis, for rapid insights, in fully scalable formats — from pocket to population scale — and the technology is being used in more than 100 countries worldwide. Founded in 2005 as a spin-out from the University of Oxford, the company now employs more than 600 people from multiple disciplines including nanopore science, molecular biology and applications, informatics, engineering, electronics, manufacturing and commercialisation. The management team, led by CEO Dr Gordon Sanghera, has a track record of delivering disruptive technologies to the market.
