[Hiring] Senior Business Development Manager @WuXi AppTec

Role Description

The Senior Business Development Manager drives sales growth of assigned region in close coordination with WuXi Biology leadership. The Sr. Business Development Manager will have an additional focus on penetrating certain assigned customers with significant growth opportunity, as assigned by management. The incumbent of this role will close and implement growth opportunities with companies in the assigned region. The Senior Manager, Business Development’s most important means of interacting with customers and prospects is through face-to-face meetings and is responsible for achieving an assigned sales and profit goal. This job is remote in the NE United States.

Responsibilities

• Identify key decision makers relative to WuXi Biology business for potential contact.
• Daily prospecting to get new leads.
• Identify issues which could jeopardize partnership and discuss with the manager to identify solutions.
• Maintain excellent relationships with internal business partners at WuXi.
• Create new opportunities and develop new relationships to expand and grow our customer base.
• Point of contact for WuXi Biology and customer; ensure communication channels; pro-actively identify areas of growth opportunity; ensure stable relationship with customers and potential customers.
• Facilitates and supports teamwork to achieve common goals across WuXi Biology unit and be open for mentoring to effective techniques and sales strategies.
• Qualify leads and present opportunity(ices) to their manager and WuXi Biology technical team.
• Facilitate business meeting with WuXi AppTec with proper agenda, attendees, focus on opportunity and follow-up; meeting summary and action items.
• Project professional image of WuXi Biology as solutions provider with clearly articulated messages.
• Support proposal negotiation to close contract as defined by supervisor.
• Identify issues which could jeopardize partnership and work with supervisor for posing solutions.
• Represents WuXi Biology at trade shows and conferences.
• Responsible for creating and managing all aspects of the customer relationship.
• Proactively works to optimize the tracking and recording of business opportunities and progress towards KPIs.
• Develops own network through local and other networking and partnering meetings.
• Supports the team to demonstrate WuXi AppTec’s core values and complies with Company policies.
• Establish professional rapport with internal functional leaders as well as market leading customers to remain forward facing in providing feedback on innovative internal processes and market demands.
• Facilitate customer travels to China.
• If local, 40% out of office travel day visits (not overnight) to clients plus up to 20% overnight travel to attend conferences. If remote, 25% travel overnight to visit clients and attend conferences.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Achieve sales quotas.
• Achieve KPIs as assigned each year.
• Achieves customer onboarding goals.
• Meets assigned expectations for profitability.
• Achieves new account acquisition targets.
• Completes required training and development objectives within the assigned time frame.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in life sciences (preferably in biology or chemistry) with 3+ years industrial experience and at least one year of business development experience preferred.
• Experience in CRO is a plus/preferred.
• This position requires frequent travel (car, train, plane).
• Candidates must have a valid driver’s license and passport.
• PC proficiency.

Technical Skills / Knowledge

• Demonstrates a broad understanding of discovery biology leading to candidate selection and preclinical development.
• Able to close deals by utilizing internal resources in an effective manner.
• Demonstrated abilities in the area of listening, negotiations, teamwork, and persuasiveness.
• Coordinates with other BDs or scientific counterparts to provide appropriate solutions to clients.

Independence / Accountability

• Demonstrates the ability to be a self-starter.
• Functions in a self-motivated and highly flexible manner.
• Must be organized and detail-oriented.
• Must be a team player.

Problem Solving

• Possesses proven experience in creating or capitalizing on opportunities leading to successful outcomes, ideally with Business Development relevance.

Leadership Activities

• Independently identifies potential prospects.
• Coordinates with other BD and scientific counterparts to provide appropriate solutions to clients.
• Marketing to ensure coordination of efforts and ensure good communication with all parties.

Communication Skills

• Interpersonal skill set for effective listening, dialog, and interactions.
• Timely communication internally and externally.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

This job description does not state or imply that the above are the only duties and responsibilities assigned to this position. Employees holding this position will be required to perform any other job-related duties as requested by Management.