Company Description
At SGS, you can choose. First of all, out of our various vacancies. However, SGS also gives you another choice. Do you choose to expand or to enrich? We are not only looking for colleagues who can go in to depths of their discipline. We are equally as much looking for colleagues who we call ‘connectors’, people who can connect our diversity to our services. To each other. And this way, enrich our business.
SGS is the world’s leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company. We’re also the benchmark worldwide for quality and integrity. And that makes us very proud. This can only happen thanks to more than 90 000 colleagues worldwide, with 1650 employees in Belgium only. Our employees give 110% of themselves every day, divided over all expertises, branches and cultures. Our coworkers build their own way inside the company, the services and the expertise.
SGS Life Sciences carries out all type of services for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, from coordination and running of clinical trials with new molecules or techniques on human beings, to support and consultancy on post marketing registration activities. SGS Life Sciences has also expertise in the quality control of pharmaceuticals.
In the spirit of continued growth and to help improve our business, we are currently seeking for a Business Development Manager Clinical Research (Northern Europe).
Job Description
As Business Development Manager you will be responsible for identifying and exploring strategic business development opportunities within the Clinical Research business in order to maximize organization growth.
Concretely this means:
- that with your extensive knowledge of current market evolutions and conditions you will be responsible for the growth of our Clinical research Business with both new and existing customers, with an emphasis on customer satisfaction and repeat business;
- that you will network actively to establish key relationships and to identify new opportunities in the (bio)pharmaceutical industry;
- that you will negotiate and close business deals;
- that you will build strong relationships with the internal functional departments and maintain in depth knowledge of their services in order to support lateral business opportunities;
- that you will represent customer needs to internal functional departments and follow up on the proposal and contract development process;
- that you will further develop and maintain business development databases.
Qualifications
What do you need to be successful?
- You have a bachelor’s or master’s degree in Life Sciences, Business or equivalent educational background.
- You have experience within the fields of Clinical research and CRO business, or other associated, relevant businesses.
- You have a proven track record of sales and/or business development within pharma/biotech industry.
- The clinical drug development process has no secrets for you.
- You are fluent in English.
Last but not least, you can recognize yourself in the following characteristics: strong interpersonal skills, excellent communication and negotiation skills, pro-active and result oriented, team player.
Additional Information
What we have to offer:
Were you already considering a big switch in your career? Maybe this could be your next step. At SGS you can count on an interesting position where you can take responsibility. Come enjoy our fun team of colleagues and on top of that, we will reward you with an interesting salary package (incl. retirement plan, meal vouchers, …)
Do you want to be part of this?
We are looking forward to hearing from you! Send us your story and your resume via the apply button and maybe you will soon join us for work and coffee breaks. Still have questions? Anneleen Vanbuggenhout can give you more details about the job. Send her an e-mail at anneleen.vanbuggenhout@sgs.com
