Area Manager, Sartorius Laboratory Products and Solutions

Are you passionate about sales and laboratory products? Would you like to be a key person contributing to Sartorius growth and development on the Swedish market?

Sartorius Lab Products and Services will strengthen their Swedish sales team with an Area Manager who will be responsible for customers and sales in the Stockholm/Uppsala area and Norrland.

As Area Manager, you will be responsible for the direct sales of Sartorius high quality Laboratory Weighing, Water, Filtration, Microbiology and Liquid Handling products and services in your area. You will build and maintain relationships with existing customers as well as expanding the customer base by making new contacts. You will get the opportunity to work through the whole business line, from networking and sales to demonstrations of equipment and products and negotiations. The customers are found in laboratory and research-intensive environments within healthcare, universities and industry, particularly within the pharmaceutical, chemical and biotechnology field.

It is important that you are comfortable with working from a home office that is preferentially located in the Stockholm/Uppsala area. As an Area Manager you report to the Sales Manager Scandinavia and collaborate regionally and internationally with colleagues within technical service support, marketing and customer service. The role involves extensive traveling within the business area and occasional traveling outside Sweden. Sartorius offers you a fixed salary plus commission based on sales as well as a company car.

Uppdragsgivare: Sartorius

Ort: Stockholm Uppsala

Kvalifikationer

Your profile:

. You have a scientific background and an academic degree in a relevant subject
. You have a minimum of 3 years experience of direct sales to laboratories within the biotech, pharma, food or chemical industry. It is essential that you have previous experience in finding new business opportunities
. You have excellent business and financial understanding as well as documented sales results
. Previous experience in sales of laboratory equipment and / or consumables is required and your own experience of laboratory work will be an advantage.
. As a person you are service minded, outgoing and an excellent communicator. You find it easy to contact people and build active networks and have the ability to listen to what the customer actually says. You work independently and take your own initiatives.
. Excellent Swedish and English is required, both spoken and in writing
. Intermediate to advanced IT skills (Microsoft Office)
. You have a valid drivers license
Personal skills will be emphasized during the selection process.

This recruitment is performed in collaboration with Proffice Life Science. Please apply in English at www.proffice.se/lifescience. For further information please contact recruitment consultant Ulrica Marklund 0733-434446. Last application date is 18 August 2013. Selection and interviews will be started during week 34.

Organisations-/företagsbeskrivning

Sartorius is one of the world's leading providers of laboratory and process technologies and equipment. Our innovative products and high-quality services help customers around the globe implement complex and quality-critical processes in biopharmaceutical production and laboratory environments in a time- and cost-efficient way. Our key customers are from the biotech, pharma and food industries, as well as from public research institutes and laboratories. Sartorius operates its own production facilities in Europe, Asia and America, and also has sales offices and local representatives in more than 110 countries. Strongly rooted in the scientific and research communities and closely allied with customers and technology partners, the company is dedicated to its philosophy of "Turning science into solutions" every single day.