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Job Description
Job Description
Job Title: Area Account Manager Molecular Spectroscopy France
Reports To: Sr Sales Manager Northern and Western Europe
Group/Division: AIG / CAD
Career Band: VI
Job Track: Sales Account Manager
Position Location: Ile de France North and East of France
Position Summary:
Responsible for selling Molecular Spectroscopy instrumentation to all accounts within defined region
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Identify prospective opportunities within a defined geographical region.
- Seek out new accounts as well as service existing accounts.
- Implement professional sales calls to increase sales growth and territory penetration.
- Engage in contract discussions and close orders with end users and purchasing departments.
- Maintain and enter accurate customer data and sales project information into Sales Force.
- Provide accurate and timely monthly sales forecasts to sales management.
- Identify and interpret customers requirements align those to Thermo Fisher Scientific capabilities and effectively communicate these to customers.
- Coordinate activities with other Divisions to improve exposure at accounts.
- Attend and support tradeshows user meetings customer seminars and other customer events through technical and business presentations.
- Serve as a product specialist in the sales process and provide effective product presentations.
- Plan and provide customers with orderwinning demonstrations of our instrumentation.
- Remain commercially aware and adaptable to business conditions.
- Assist in the annual planning of the financial performance of the Company.
- Work collaboratively and successfully with Sales and Service groups to meet customer requirements.
- Apply divisional resources to perform all responsibilities.
- Consistently achieve/exceed order bookings objectives.
Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:
- Degree or equivalent experience in a scientific field.
- Good knowledge of Material Sciences.
- Proven experience in a commercial environment preferably capital analytical equipment sales.
- A consistent track record in sales quota achievement and territory management.
- An understanding of Vibrational Spectroscopy is desirable.
- Broad familiarity with industries such as Academia Pharmaceutical Chemical Polymers Food Material Sciences and Petrochemical.
- Highly salesfocused with the ability to work independently.
- Must reside within the assigned territory.
- Ability to travel.
- Valid driving license.
- Experience using sales databases Outlook and MS Office suite.
- Proficient in English.
Personal Spec
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Outstanding time management and the ability to multitask.
- Selfmotivated with creativity and problemsolving ability.
- Attention to detail and accuracy.
- Good phone manner.
- Professional appearance.
- Capable of interfacing across internal and external complex matrix organizations.
- Requirement for travel up to 25.
- High level of IT skills/digital literacy.
Required Experience:
Manager