Sr. Account Manager, Clinical Trial Supply (REMOTE)

Location: Remote, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Category: Sales & Business Development

Employment Type: Full time

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

Title: Sr. Account Manager, Clinical Trial Supply (REMOTE)

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Division/Site Specific Information

Position can sit in Central and/or East Coast US Remote area and will support the Clinical Trials Division (CTD) of PSG at Thermo Fisher Scientific. With 12,000 global employees across 5 continents, The Pharmaceutical Services Group (PSG) offers world-class expertise to help customers of all sizes get high-quality medicines to patients faster. We are an industry leader in drug development, clinical trial logistics and commercial manufacturing through our Patheon brand.

With more than 65 locations globally, we provide our clients with integrated, end-to-end capabilities through all phases of development, including API, biologics, viral vector services, formulation, clinical trial solutions, logistics services and commercial manufacturing.

This is a field-based role with responsibility for hunting new Biotech customers with Clinical Trial Supply needs within a defined region of US-East Coast. You will work from your home office. Regular domestic travel is required, up to 25% of the working time including overnight stays. Candidates can be based anywhere within territory, ideally close to an international airport.

Discover Impactful Work:

As an Account Executive, Business Development – Clinical Trials Division, you will be passionate about supporting our customer’s aspirations to bring new treatments to fruition through our Clinical Supply chain.

We anticipate that you will help expand our market share in territory for our services (clinical packaging, labels, distribution, storage, Comparator sourcing and Clinical Demand planning). The successful candidate has the skills to establish relationships with Key Opinion Leaders, client interactions at the C-suite level, and, within our team be able to influence future strategic direction by developing strategic relationships with Biotech customers. Additionally, you will create connections with cross-divisional sales and business units within Thermo Fisher Scientific to ensure an aligned approach to customers.

A Day in the Life:

• You will drive sales growth in our clinical trials division (CTD) through the development and implementation of strategies to generate sales from new and existing accounts in the assigned geography.

• You will build an internal network that enables client success. This includes collaborating with both subject-matter-experts within CTD, as well as site leadership and client services support at the site level.

• An emphasis should be placed on identifying new target clients and target molecules while following through on leads from a variety of sources (including, but not limited to, prospection, inside sales, business development associates and referrals).

• New Business Development including identifying new molecule opportunities with new or existing clients through understanding of the market, appointment based strategic selling, leveraging personal network, interaction with other Pharma Services Group (PSG), Clinical Research Group (CRG) and Thermo Fisher Scientific teams, and following up on leads.

• Develop a detailed territory plan for your region to optimize performance of the territory

• Creating and implementing sales programs for new prospective clients to increase awareness of our service offering and key differentiators from our competition.

• Analyze and understand funding mechanisms and sources and flow of funding for the small emerging biotech element of the territory.

• Attend tradeshows/ conferences/ seminars to increase awareness of our broader capabilities and as a source of lead generation.

• Identify and communicate our value proposition, including opportunities for strategic bundling of our services.

• Lead the ongoing relationship with existing clients.

• Enable winning quotations and have a key role to play in the contract negotiation phase.

• Handle, update, maintain and record all relevant activities in the SFDC database, and share information and background on prospective clients within the territory to our partners.

Keys to Success:

Education

• Bachelors degree required. Preferably in Business, Finance, or another related field.

Experience

• 5 years of sales experience with experience working within Clinical Supplies Industry is highly desired.

• CDMO or CRO sales experience a nice to have to drive connections across the industry.

• Professional background in sales or business development within America’s.

• Proficiency in Salesforce is preferred.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Good knowledge of the clinical drug development process is expected.

• Professional presentation skills and ability to network within senior management ranks.

• Familiarity working within a matrix environment, both with clients and internally.

• Dynamic and highly self-motivated individual, with outstanding interpersonal skills.

• Ability to establish a functional, home office environment.

• Proficient in Microsoft Office products such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.

• Willing and able to travel up to 25% of working time within territory, including regular overnight stays.

• Valid driver’s license.

What’s in it for you:

• Excellent career opportunity with a large and growing global employer.

• Competitive salary, plus sales bonus and mileage reimbursement/potential for car allowance.

• Full benefits package (specifics depend on country of hire).