Account Manager III
at Thermo Fisher Scientific
Gauteng, Gauteng, South Africa -
Start Date | Expiry Date | Salary | Posted On | Experience | Skills | Telecommute | Sponsor Visa |
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Immediate | 29 Aug, 2024 | Not Specified | 31 May, 2024 | 3 year(s) or above | Sample Prep,Value Propositions,Presentation Skills,External Relationships,Business Requirements,Business Knowledge,Agribusiness,Product Management | No | No |
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Description:
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue over $40 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing efficiency in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them. Our global team delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD. For more information, please visit www.thermofisher.com
The Life Sciences Group of Thermo Fisher Scientific currently has a vacancy for a TSS to lead the AgriBusiness Commercial Strategy in South Africa - EN Africa.
BUSINESS KNOWLEDGE
- Willingness and ability to travel extensively and work in a wide variety of customer environments (50-60% travel time).
- able to work inside matrix organization
- strong communication and presentation skills
- manages internal and external relationships well
- Drives process compliance and improvements within operational processes in accordance with Standard Operating Procedures, business requirements and applicable government regulations
- Manages diversity effectively and equally; adoptable to different cultures
DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE OF AGRIBUSINESS
- Understands production animal diagnostics workflows and animal genotyping products, applications and instruments.
- Knowledge of Molecular Biology Applications: Sample Prep, qPCR, NGS, Microarray.
- Provides feedback to product management on customer needs for new product development.
- Builds value propositions that represent Thermo Fisher Scientific product portfolio
EDUCATION/QUALIFICATIONS
- Will hold an academic degree (BSc) or has equivalent level of experience in Veterinary Diagnostics & Agrigenomics market.
- Broad experience (min 3 years) in Specialist Sales function, with proven track record in veterinary diagnostics or closely related field.
- Bench experience in the field of Veterinary Diagnostics & Agrigenomics
Responsibilities:
PURPOSE:
Drive the Thermo Fisher AgriBusiness Commercial Strategy in South Africa and Full English Speaking Countries in Africa. Be responsible to achieve individual resulting in a best performing team to support the Sales and Support AgriBusiness EMEA team to achieve the financial targets.
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES
- Responsible for direct sales of the AgriBusiness portfolio in Animal Health and Genotyping application in the assigned area.
- Achieve sales targets, both quarterly and annually.
- Develop and implement a strategy that leads to increased customer value creation and market share gain specific to each geography.
- Maintains and develops customer relationships at senior level
- Gathers, analyses and delivers information from the regions to allow the company to develop strategies and products appropriate to the market.
- Identifies, nurtures and focuses on key accounts and key opinion leaders to build mid long term growing strategy.
- Identifies competitor activities and develops tactical activities
- Distributor Management
- Manage and build with high accuracy Funnel and Forecast process according to company standard
REQUIREMENT SUMMARY
Min:3.0Max:8.0 year(s)
Marketing/Advertising/Sales
Sales / BD
Sales
Graduate
Veterinary diagnostics agrigenomics market
Proficient
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Gauteng, South Africa