Senior Business Development Executive Biotech Solutions

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Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team youll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the worlds toughest challenges like protecting the environment making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Job Summary
We are seeking a high-impact Sr. Business Development Executive to join our Biotech Solutions EU Sales team covering theLondon UK region. This role is designed for a proven hunter with deep Biotech and CDMO services experience who excels at identifying whitespace opening new accounts and converting early-stage scientific engagement into partnerships. The successful candidate will drive new logo acquisition and expansion by positioning Thermo Fishers integrated capabilities across small and large molecule drug substance manufacturing sterile drug product fill and finish and advanced therapies oral solid dose manufacturing.

This is a quota-carrying role for a strategic seller who thrives in competitive environments moves with urgency and consistently wins complex multi-division opportunities.

Key Responsibilities

• Own new business acquisition within assigned territory with a primary focus on hunting prospecting and converting Biotech opportunities.

• Develop and execute targeted account entry strategies to penetrate early and mid-stage Biotech companies.

• Identify customer pain points and proactively create demand for integrated CDMO solutions across drug substance and drug product

• Drive the full sales cycle from initial outreach through deal negotiation and contract execution.

• Lead complex multi-site and multi-service deal structuring pricing discussions and negotiations.

• Build strong executive-level relationships with scientific technical and business decision makers.

• Partner cross-functionally with subject matter experts operations finance legal and program teams to deliver competitive differentiated proposals.

• Maintain a robust and actionable pipeline with disciplined forecasting and CRM hygiene.

• Stay ahead of market dynamics competitor activity and emerging Biotech trends to inform pursuit strategy.

• Represent Thermo Fisher in senior-level customer meetings industry events and site visits across the global network.

Key Requirements

• Significant quota-carrying field sales or business development experience focused on CDMO services including drug substance or drug product

• Demonstrated success as a hunter with consistent new logo wins and sustained pipeline generation.

• Proven ability to manage long sales cycles complex buying committees and multi-year contracts.

• Strong commercial acumen with experience shaping solutions and influencing deal outcomes.

• Confident communicator with executive presence and strong negotiation skills.

• Highly competitive self-directed and results-driven mindset.

• Comfortable operating with urgency ambiguity and limited structure.

• Willingness to travel up to 50 percent to meet customers and showcase Thermo Fisher sites.

Education

• Bachelors degree in a Life Sciences field required.

• MBA or postgraduate scientific degree preferred.