Senior Business Development Manager

Responsibilities:

Identify opportunities to prospect client contact with Agrochemical & Safety Assessment companies (both prospective and current clients of company)

• This role focusses on EU and India, hence experience in selling Agrochemical & Safety Assessment services in these territories is a must

Respond to client inquiries and provide information including cost estimates and timelines in response to inquiries

Manage multiple opportunities and projects simultaneously

Advocate within the company on the client's behalf

Visit prospective clients and present information regarding the agrochemical & safety assessment capabilities required for preclinical and clinical programs to obtain new business, and promptly submit trip reports.

Coordinate appointments with clients as needed to expand the growth of the business.

Identify prospective clients and win their business.

Partner with clients and in-house scientific experts to recommend solutions to a wide range of safety assessment study requirements.

Coordinate internal project teams to support client requests and anticipated business needs.

Contribute to developing and executing strategies that will increase the efficiency of the Client Services team by working with fellow group members as a team.

Qualification & Job Requirements

Masters or higher degree with 6-10 years related experience and/or training in the biotech, agro chemical or preclinical CRO industry

Mandatory 5-8 years experience in front end Business Development in offering agro chemical and or safety assessment services to pharma, biotech and crop protection industries.

Strong understanding of safety assessment requirements for pharma (-small and large molecules), Crop protection, chemical industries. Understanding of non-GLP, GLP and AAALAC requirements for such drug safety assessment solutions, and REACH requirements for chemical industries.

• Good understanding of the analytical and bio analytical requirements to support these safety assessment studies.
• Good understanding of the data requirements required for product registration of agrochemical industry product chemistry, ecotoxicology and regulatory toxicology studies.

Demonstrated success in managing multiple projects and opportunities simultaneously.