Area Sales Manager

The Opportunity

Supports revenue growth by performing sales activities with channel partners/distributors, including assisting with onboarding new partners and facilitating repeat or upsell opportunities with existing ones. Maintains communication and provides product information, demonstrations, and standard sales materials. Coordinates internally to ensure timely delivery of bids and presentations. Supports relationship management and aims at ensuring channel partners/distributors are consistently motivated and equipped to deliver results. Trains channel partners/distributors, and monitors and aligns their performance against the company's business goals.

Person will be responsible for selling to key accounts and new channel partners/distributors, as well as cross/up/repeat sales to existing channel partners/distributors. Maintain existing relationships with organizations for distributing products, services, and/or solutions. Deliver product demonstrations, sales bids, and presentations to channel partners/distributors. Manage the relationship with the channel partners/distributors.

Why Avantor?

Dare to go further in your career. Join our global team of 14,000+ associates whose passion for discovery and determination to overcome challenges relentlessly advances life-changing science.

The work we do changes people's lives for the better. It brings new patient treatments and therapies to market, giving a cancer survivor the chance to walk his daughter down the aisle. It enables medical devices that help a little boy hear his mom's voice for the first time. Outcomes such as these create unlimited opportunities for you to contribute your talents, learn new skills and grow your career at Avantor.

We are committed to helping you on this journey through our diverse, equitable and inclusive culture which includes learning experiences to support your career growth and success. At Avantor, dare to go further and see how the impact of your contributions set science in motion to create a better world. Apply today!

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Responsibilities

Develop and execute territory plans to achieve revenue targets and control expenses.; Work with channel partners, where appropriate, to drive specific opportunities.; Establish high-level customer and distributor relationships/intimacy by way of technical and business skills/competencies and situational fluency.; Understand current customer processes and applications and communicate customer technology product requirements to internal stakeholders.; Utilize a variety of communication and engagement methodologies, including quarterly business reviews, executive meetings, and technical collaborations, ensure they meet the targeted number of face-to-face key account interactions per week.; Demonstrate effective employee relationships built on trust, teamwork, and accountability.; Perform other duties as assigned, with or without accommodation.

Requirements

Education: Graduation/Post-graduation in Science, MBA is preferred.; Experience: 4+ years of relevant experience in lab Chemical/Consumables sales/technical support.; Strong technical knowledge of lab chemicals, consumables, lab equipment/instruments, and microbiology or chromatography products, combined with a customer-centric approach.; Excellent analytical skills with good working knowledge of MS Excel and PowerPoint.; Effective communication skills, including verbal, written, and presentation abilities.