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Sales Specialist

Posted 19 days ago

RemoteBury, Lancashire, United Kingdom

Job Description

Sales Specialist at LGC Standards

Join Our Team as a Sales Specialist!

Are you passionate about building strong relationships and driving revenue growth? LGC Standards is seeking a motivated Sales Specialist to join our dynamic team. In this hybrid role, you will be the first point of contact for our clients, providing essential technical sales support and ensuring a seamless customer experience.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own all Transactional accounts in an assigned geography and represent the entire LGC Standards product portfolio at new and existing customers, across all end-markets such as Pharma, Biotech, Environmental, etc.
  • Identify and close new prospect opportunities, generated from a combination of prospecting and qualification in collaboration with our marketing department or self-generated leads
  • Actively engage with customers via email, phone calls and online meetings to qualify leads, convert prospects, follow-up on quotations and drive new sales
  • Use LGC’s sales tools and virtual capabilities to prospect, nurture, close opportunities and conduct ongoing territory planning
  • Close cooperation with marketing to launch new products and the core end-market team to identify competitor activity and trends
  • Be responsible for the daily management of relevant service cloud cases, ensuring tasks are dealt with and a proper response time is guaranteed

Qualifications

  • MSc in chemistry, Pharmaceutical sciences, biotechnology, or a related subject area (blend of educational qualifications and experience will be reviewed)
  • Proven experience in selling technical products used in laboratories
  • Successful track record in account management
  • Proficiency in customer relationship management platforms (e.g., Salesforce) and Microsoft Office suite
  • Demonstrated history of meeting and exceeding sales targets
  • Excellent negotiation and presentation skills
  • Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
  • In-depth knowledge of industry trends and market dynamics
  • Strong English communication skills. Additional languages are an asset
  • Willingness to travel up to 15% as needed

Additional Information

Your benefits

  • Extensive on-boarding and mentoring for a successful start
  • Permanent employment contract, company pension scheme and attractive employer benefits
  • Individual development and career opportunities in an innovative, international company
  • Work-life balance thanks to flexible, family-friendly working hours
  • Open corporate culture in which integrity, respect, passion and curiosity for forward-looking, creative solutions take centre stage
  • Dynamic, diverse, supportive and international team 
  • Comprehensive employee offers on the subject of health management as well as online offers for childcare and learning support
Job details
Workplace
Remote
Location
Bury, Lancashire, United Kingdom

Biosearch Technologies Oligo Synthesis provides tailored oligonucleotide synthesis and advanced nucleic acid chemistry solutions that enable customers to design, develop, and scale high-performance nucleic acid products from early research through commercialisation. Our three global oligonucleotide manufacturing sites ensure nanomole to gram scale quantities with consistent quality and streamlined scalability for early-stage development through to commercialisation. By overseeing raw material production, including our best-in-class Black Hole Quencher™ (BHQ™) and proprietary fluorophores that span the full visible spectrum, we guarantee supply chain security with unmatched product support. Serving customers across the nucleic acid testing (NAT) and molecular diagnostics (MDx) markets, Biosearch Technologies Oligo Synthesis empowers scientists and diagnostics developers to bring accurate, robust, and scalable nucleic acid–based solutions to market with confidence.

Employees
531
Industry
Biotechnology
Headquarters
Hoddesdon, Herts
Company location
Unit 1-2 Trident Industrial Estate, Pindar Road, Hoddesdon, Herts EN11 0WZ, GB
Specialties
PCR Primers, Probes & Oligos and Nucleic Acid Chemistry Reagents & Instruments

Key team members

Harrison Ransom

Harrison Ransom

Samuel Arvidsson

Samuel Arvidsson

Luan Le

Luan Le

Alessandra Eleuteri

Alessandra Eleuteri

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