Head of Sales GeLaMed mfd

As a laboratory for efficient diagnostics Eurofins Laborbetriebsgesellschaft Gelsenkirchen GmbH offers its consignees a competent friendly and comprehensive service in all areas of laboratory medicine microbiology and hospital hygiene at four locations. All laboratory areas are accredited according to DIN EN ISO 15189. The Head of Sales is responsible for leading the sales strategy and tactics for the Eurofins Clinical Diagnostics business in Germany managing the already existing sales team (8 people). Geographical location for the position would preferably be in the Gelsenkirchen region. The Head of Sales will report to the Managing Director of GeLaMed.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Developing the commercial strategy for the German market.
• Formation and further development of the sales team based on the strengths and weaknesses of the existing team.
• Assisting and coaching Sales Managers to develop and implement account specific or business line specific action plans.
• Defining and implementing the regional marketing strategy and tactics to develop the awareness and demand pipeline for German market working with the business line leaders.
• Developing the budget for sales targets in Germany aligned with the goals and budget of Eurofins Clinical Diagnostics.
• Developing and maintaining the sales forecast.
• Evaluating and reporting on market related trends to provide feedback to senior management.
• Managing key high value customers to ensure customer satisfaction and growth of the account.
• Developing sales generating new leads to expand the customer portfolio bringing new business effectively to the Eurofins Group.
• Monitoring competitive activities in current and targeted markets.
• Focusing overall direction of selling/training initiatives towards strategic selling.
• Developing commission plans and an incentivebased compensations structure within the Eurofins guidelines.
• Supporting Sales Managers on compensation forecasts and expense reports.
• Providing continuous performance related feedback to the Sales Managers.

Qualifications :

The ideal candidate would possess:

• Completed business or technical (engineering) studies with Bachelor or Master from a reputable institution.
• At least 3 years managing a sales and commercial team.
• Ability to leverage existing professional network in the Clinical Diagnostics field would be a huge plus.
• Selfstarter who is a result and successoriented individual with the proven ability to develop and follow through on sales tasks and plans.
• Highly selfmotivated friendly and able to specify solutions independently and as part of a team.
• Willing to travel approximately 50% of working time.
• Excellent written & spoken language skills in German and English.

Additional Information :

We support your development! Do you feel you dont match 100% of the requirements Dont hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

Weembracediversity! As an Equal Opportunity Employer the Eurofins Network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity. 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 count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!

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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 believes that it is a 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 also one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics and in the support of clinical studies as well as in biopharma contract development and manufacturing. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and invitro diagnostic products.

In over 35 years Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes France to ca. 62000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 900 laboratories in 62 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety identity composition authenticity origin traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

In 2023 Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6515 million and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime