Sales Manager, Life Sciences UK – UPM Biomedicals
4.1.2023Are you looking to join a dynamic, innovation-driven, international company, building a better future for us all? UPM leads the forest based bioindustry into a sustainable, innovation-driven, and exciting future. The competence, integrity and drive of our people make us unique. We live by our values – trust and be trusted, achieve together, renew with courage.
We are now looking for a Sales Manager, Life Sciences UK to join our Biomedicals team in the United Kingdom.
Greetings from your future colleagues
“We are looking for an agile person to join our life science business to direct sales in UK and Ireland alongside our existing and future partners. In UPM Biomedicals, you can experience the start-up environment backed by a solid corporation.” – Dr Johana Kuncova-Kallio, Director, Biomedicals
“You are a team-oriented person with great communication skills and a genuine interest and curiosity for the customer’s needs.” – Tony Kiuru, Senior Manager, Business Development
What you’ll do
- Contribute to the turnover of the UPM Biomedicals with focus to 3D cell culture
- Collect feedback from our customers to generate insights
- Identify, contact and discuss with KOLs
- Develop competitive landscape and market analysis
- Work along our distribution partners and support them in sales activities
- Planning of sales activities for life science field in UK and Ireland
- Support business development in 3D cell culture (GrowDex®), and later also in regenerative medicine
- Support development of the customer experience journey in co-operation with the sales and marketing team
Who you are
- You have a university degree or equivalent lab experience
- You have minimum of 5 years of relevant sales experience (life science instruments or consumables for e.g. HTS, HCS, cell assays) and understanding of relationships between distributor and principal
- You have previously built a network in high content or high throughput screening or related fields
- You have great organizational skills especially when preparing customer visits
- You are diligent in reporting sales activities and have experience with CRM (e.g. SalesForce)
- You have great problem-solving skills
- You are positive thinking, solution oriented, multitasking and motivated team-oriented person
- Cell laboratory skills are considered a benefit
- You are fluent in written and spoken English
This is what we offer for you
- Meaningful job: Our work impacts the quality of healthcare in future. We highlight the expertise of our personnel, the high quality of our products and the company values.
- Inspired and motivated teams: We have highly skilled workforce. We are a multifaceted, international organization that works as a team to achieve our vision.
- Development opportunities: With us you can build up your expertise. We provide opportunities to support your development throughout every stage of your career.
- Responsibility for people and environment: Our ethical principles embrace people as well as the environment. We are always striving to build a more sustainable future.
Additional information
The job requires 50% of travel time. Besides customer visits and conference participations, once or twice per year, there is a meeting in Finland, where you get to contribute to the development of strategy together with other Biomedicals team members.
The job is home-office based, optionally desk in a life science hub is possible to arrange. Preferable location in the research triangle of London – Oxford – Cambridge.
The recruitment will be done in cooperation with our recruitment partner George James Ltd.
For more information, please contact Tony Kiuru, Senior Manager, Business Development, tony.kiuru@upm.com, or tel +358407085100 on
- December 13th 2022 from 9-11 a.m. EET
- January 10th 2023 from 9-11 a.m. EET
Please send your application via the link latest by January 15th, 2023. We will start going through the applications already during application period so please submit your application as soon as possible.
For support with submitting your application, please contact the HR Service Center at careers@upm.com or tel. +4401723502550.
UPM Biomedicals is the forerunner in producing high quality nanofibrillar cellulose for medical and life science applications. More than 300 patents protect the existing and future products that rely on the Finnish birch pulp. We actively collaborate with universities, research centres and key industrial partners on innovations and products in the field of high throughput drug screening, personalized medicine, advanced cell therapies, 3D bioprinting, tissue engineering and wound care. www.upmbiomedicals.com
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