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Business Development Account Director
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Europe
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3 days ago
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Business Development Account Director
Catalent Pharma Solutions
Role Description The Business Development Director will identify, qualify, and pursue business opportunities within their defined geographic territory, focusing on selling development and clinical to commercial manufacturing services for Gene and Cell Therapy products to customers across the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology industries. Your primary role is to evaluate and assess contract manufacturing opportunities with our bio pharma customers, aligning internal capabilities and services with the customers’ outsourcing needs for Cell and Gene Therapy. You will be responsible for developing current and new business opportunities in Europe. Main Responsibilities: - Achieve annual sales, revenue, and funnel targets to ensure continued growth. - Develop and maintain business relationships at all levels to ensure the continued growth of Catalent’s book of business. - Develop relationships with clients to understand key applications and generate customer-driven product requirements. - Achieve or exceed objectives by actively selling to clients in the field; frequent travel will be required to visit customers in person. - Develop a working knowledge of current and potential activities that may affect revenues. - Utilize pre-call planning for increased effectiveness. - Maintain contact with existing customers as well as develop new customers in order to achieve or exceed sales objectives. - Perform sales presentations for internal and external customers. - Interface with Subject Matter Experts, Process & Analytical Development, Manufacturing, QC and QA teams and work in close collaboration with proposal managers to qualify opportunities and support the quotation process. - Participate in European sales meetings, tradeshows, and partnering events. - Utilize the CRM database to input and provide information that will increase effectiveness and aid sales. - Work with Operations, Quality, and Project Management to understand project requirements for accurate and timely quotations. - Negotiate CDAs, quotations, and MSAs. - Must be willing and able to travel up to 50% of their time. Qualifications - BA/BS/PhD degree in a Life Sciences discipline. - Existing knowledge of the Cell and/or Gene Therapy field. - Existing network in the Cell and Gene Therapy space. - 5 to 10 years’ relevant experience in sales. - Previous experience with a CDMO organization essential. - Able to work in a fast-paced matrix environment. - Outstanding ability to build key customer relationships with the ability to educate and demonstrate technical value propositions. - Proven track record of acquiring new business and negotiating high-value deals. - Strategic and analytical mindset with excellent presentation and influencing skills. - Ability to engage with senior-level stakeholders across functions. - Entrepreneurial, self-driven, and results-oriented. - Strong written and verbal communication skills (English mandatory). - Ability to recognize the needs of the customer and collaborate with clinical areas to develop proposals that exceed customer expectations. - Must be reliable, highly-motivated, well-organized, results-oriented, and customer-focused. Benefits - Opportunities to advance your career. - Work with a global leader in drug development and manufacturing. - Contribute to over 7,000 products that save and improve patients' lives worldwide. - Dynamic work environment with meaningful work. Company Description Catalent is an exciting and rapidly growing international company where employees work directly with pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, and consumer health companies of all sizes to advance new medicines from early development through clinical trials and to market. Catalent produces over 70 billion doses per year, and each will be used by someone who relies on us. Join us to make a difference.
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