Director of Business Development - Eurofins Central Laboratories

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.

Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.

Purpose of the Job: Ensures new bookings targets are met for the assigned territories and services. They call upon their industry experience and abilities to initiate and develop productive relationships at all levels of complex, biopharmaceutical and CRO organizations. S/he ensures new opportunities are generated and new bookings (contracts) are won for Eurofins Central Labs, including clinical biomarkers and anti-infective services. Acts as advocate of prospect and active accounts to all key stake holders within Eurofins.

S/he reports to the Senior Director, Global Head, Business Development, works closely with the Scientific Affairs and Proposals/Contracts team as key internal customers, and with Project Managers as key contributors.

Responsibilities

• Achieves personal, new bookings targets for Eurofins Central Labs services, incl. clinical biomarkers and/or anti-infective services. Each individual Director of Business Development will have their own personal goals identified by Vice President, Sales and Marketing at the start of calendar year, or upon hire.

• Identify, qualify and document potential customers, sales opportunities and unmet client needs in the assigned territory that are aligned with the company capabilities (fit-for-win).

• Maintain accurate and updated entries in Eurofins CRM software.

• Initiate and maintain new or existing client contacts, obtain and respond to requests for information / proposal (RFI/RFP) and initiated the generation of new quotes in accordance with the sales plan. Acts as advocate for prospect and active accounts within the Eurofins organization. Ensures full understanding of client RFPs, as well as solution being proposed by Eurofins

Experience

• Track record of generating over USD 5m in new service contracts with demonstrated market share growth over 20% annually

• Minimum of Three (3) years of clinical or central laboratory, clinical trial (CRO, trial supplies/logistics, e-Clinical) or relevant B2B project service (e.g. consulting) industry

• Relevant project delivery supplementing direct sales experience a plus.

• Proficient use of MS Office

Education

• BSc/BA or equivalent in healthcare/life sciences (laboratory or clinical services preferred) or business degree from a reputable institution.

• Graduate business or science degree (MSc or MBA)

We support your development! Do you feel you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

We embrace diversity! Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

Sustainability matters to us! We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we also count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!

Find out more in our career page: https://careers.eurofins.com/

Company description: Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

The Eurofins network of companies is the global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and agroscience contract research services. It is one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies, as well as having an emerging global presence in Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisations. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over 35 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 61,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of ca. 900 laboratories in 61 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

In 2022, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.7 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.