France (ideally Paris but willingness to travel & live near an international airport in France is essential)

Our client is a market-leading manufacturer and supplier of life science products to the cell and gene therapy market. The company is growing at a fast pace both organically and through acquisitions. Their European Headquarters are located in the DACH region. They now seek a French Regional Territory Manager to further grow the sales of their cell and gene therapy products in the country.

Cell & Gene Therapy French Territory Manager Objective

You’ll join a company with a powerful and positive purpose of enabling cutting-edge research products in Cell and Gene Therapy.  Our client’s best-in-class brands provide cutting-edge tools for researchers to further treat and prevent disease worldwide.

My client is totally committed to product quality, customer satisfaction, continued improvement in life science, and the treatment of disease through their unrivaled portfolio of products.

This is a great opportunity to develop the Cell & Gene Therapy business across France in defined Accounts, as well as developing Academic groups and start-up companies and Biotech’s in the country and other French-speaking regions.

Key Responsibilities

• Source, develop and drive new/existing business opportunities in space.
• Use a selection of channels in order to identify and qualify new business opportunities, including in-bound lead follow up, outbound cold calls, emails and social media.
• Look to implement new and innovative strategies in order to identify new business, therefore enhancing sales revenue and profit.
• Keep all channels of communication open with internal and external sales teams, lead generation and marketing within the Company.
• Work with Cell & Gene Therapy Sales and Marketing team.
• Build relationships and opportunities with Customers across France and the French Speaking countries.
• Report on progress and opportunities to both Sales Manager & Team
• Maintain awareness and knowledge of marketplace and competitors. Report findings and potential pipeline both monthly and quarterly to your manager
• Represent the company at domestic and international Cell & Gene Therapy conferences.
• Accurately report back into the team leader on the business
• Travel in region for Customer visits required.
• Beneficial to have experience with a CRM.
• Ability to track return on investment (ROI) and key performance indicators (KPI’s)
• Possess excellent IT skills; including experience of working with databases, Office Outlook, using Excel and Word are essential.

Skills Required

• Must be fluent in both French & English with the ability to conduct business in both languages.
• Must have 5+ years sales success/ experience and a go to contact network in the Cell and Gene Therapy sector in France with C> customers.
• A proven track record in France and French speaking region sales growth
• Excellent attention to detail, time management, and organizational skills
• Excellent ‘can do’ attitude.
• Ability to perform a wide variety of tasks and multi-task efficiently.
• Ability to remain calm under pressure and work to deadlines.
• Feel comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to build strong relationships cross functionally.
• Flexible attitude to cover work as required.

My client has a high-performance culture and is committed to product quality, customer satisfaction, continued improvement, minimising environmental impacts and conserving natural resources. Bettering healthcare is an integral core value and vital part of my client’s culture. Appy today to Emma Howarth by sending your up-to-date word CV to emma@langtonhowarth.com or call Emma on +44(0)1132433499 today.