Product Specialist - Reagents

Our client is currently welcoming applications from enthusiastic individuals to join the company in the position of Product Specialist. This pivotal role, based in Birmingham, will involve working closely with the sales team, distribution partners and customers to promote our client’s products.

The successful applicant will be responsible for identifying and exploiting our client’s market specific competitive advantages to increase the sales and promotion of their products. Skills in new business and customer development is essential, as well as the ability to maximise sales with existing customers, development of the Sales Team’s product knowledge and the holding of roadshow events throughout the entire team’s remit.

This is a unique opportunity to develop your career with a forward thinking, global company which will offer the successful applicant job security and genuine opportunities to enhance their career.

The Candidate:

Essential:

- Qualified to degree level in life science or business discipline.
- Distinct self-motivation as well as a proactive, structured, and result orientated work style.
- Willingness to travel across the UK and international markets
- Ability to identify new business opportunities.
- Strong analytical skills, relating to problem solving and sales analysis.

Desirable:

- A proven track record in sales and customer relationship management, ideally within the following industries: Diagnostics, Hospital Laboratories, Multinational Healthcare company (pharma, medical devices).
- Advanced customer research skills.
- Experience of data analytics relating to sales functions.

About Our Client:

An international company operating in over 145 countries that continues to have unparalleled growth, our client has been the heartbeat of the UK’s National COVID Testing Programme throughout the pandemic. In early 2020 our client recognised the threat from COVID-19 and, based on over 40 years of diagnostic experience, quickly developed a test to accurately identify the virus. Testing at scale commenced within weeks to support the UK’s National Testing Programme and private clients alike. Through the enormous effort and commitment of its staff, our client is currently operating at a capacity of 180,000 COVID-19 samples per day, making it the most productive laboratory in the UK and Ireland and amongst the very largest in Europe.

Additionally, as a world leader in diagnostics for clinical healthcare, toxicology and food security, our client’s expertise and product portfolio have assisted laboratories across the world in improving health and saving lives. Their global success is a result of their pioneering products and the commitment & skill of their workforce, which continue to grow exponentially.

Central to our client’s ethos is their drive and determination to improve healthcare worldwide and every one of their talented staff play a role in this. In order to serve their growing international markets, they require high calibre applicants with scientific, engineering, software, and broader business skills - including sales, marketing, logistics, finance and many more. Join our client’s team and play your part in improving the health of millions.

Our client is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

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