Business Development Manager

Job Category: Sales and Marketing
Job Type: Full Time
Job Location: England
Salary: $50K/yr - $60K/yr
Company Name: Platform Recruitment

Company Overview

Platform Recruitment – Partnering with innovative companies, connecting them with exceptional talent. At Platform Recruitment we have a proven track record of delivering the best candidates into a variety of roles, working with clients that vary from new start-ups to some of the world’s largest corporations. We take the time to fully understand our candidates and their motivations so that we can introduce them to the right companies for them. We then support them throughout their journey to finding and starting in their new job. We partner with clients all over the UK, USA and Europe to cut out any burden the recruitment process creates for them, whether they’re large multinationals or smaller start-ups. This successful partnership approach is fundamental to several exclusive agreements currently in place, with more being added every week. Our business model is based around continuously engaging with the best, most niche and in-demand technical candidates in the market. This gives us a distinct advantage when matching expert technical talent with some of the best companies in the UK, USA, Germany and across Europe.

About the job

Overview:

In this role you will be responsible the commercial success of the microbiome testing arm of the company. In the long term, this will mean building and leading a team of salespeople to help drive revenue. You will be expected to contribute to setting a commercial and sales strategy, generate leads, build client relationships, help set targets to hit or exceed revenue forecasts, and ultimately meet customer needs.

Responsibilities:

• Represent the company effectively with comprehensive knowledge of the product portfolio

• Generate new business and establish and nurture client relationships.

• Achieve and hopefully outperform the revenue targets set by the Board.

• Monitor and report relevant KPIs on a weekly basis including weekly sales reports and provide insights on what works and where improvements are necessary

Qualifications

  • 2 – 4+ years’ prior industry related business development experience
  • Background in biotechnology
  • Any experience within microbiomes, sequencing, microbiomes, diagnostics, wellness testing, clinical trials or CROs would be highly beneficial
  • Experience within start-ups preffered
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