The Opportunity:
Avantor (VWR) is looking for a replacement for an internal promotion within our Internal Sales Team, this is common practise as this department feeds the future sales talent of the business offering career progression – Account Manager, Strategic Partner, Field Sales and more.
Flexibility is offered, you can choose to be full-time office (excluding customer visits), hybrid, or remote (depending on your location).
Training is continuous, both sales skills and product training, ensuring career success is achievable. You will be assigned a generous customer base, an opportunity for you to harvest solid and enjoyable relationships, and secure new and repeat business. With pricing negotiation authority, you have true accountability to close orders.
A full clean UK driving license is essential, whilst most of your role will be via telephone, you do have the opportunity to visit customers on a nationwide basis, when required.
The Team:
The Internal Sales Team consists of 11 associates supporting the UK and Northern Ireland customer base. The team is accountable for sales activities, conducting 15 quantitative conversations per day (from your dedicated customer list), converting to 10 opportunities.
What we’re looking for
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Education: BA/BSc or equivalent in a Science or Business discipline, desirable, not essential
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Experience: previous sales in a Business-to-Business environment or a desire and determination to work in a B2B sales environment
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Strong commercial acumen
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Negotiation skills and drive to work in a targeted sales environment
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Required Languages: Fluent in written and verbal English
How you will thrive and create an impact
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Engage in conversations regarding long-term strategies and align effectively with buyers at every stage of their purchase decision process
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Develop credibility by challenging the client’s thinking to co-create valuable solutions
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Focus on outcomes to support & tap into the power of the broader Avantor (VWR) network to support customer projects – Avantor offer a wider range of services and solutions
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Collaborate with Product Specialists and Portfolio Managers to offer valuable insight into addressing challenges
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Seek to consistently develop internal and external relationships
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Disclaimer:
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of employees assigned to this position. Avantor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
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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What We Do
Avantor®, a Fortune 500 company, is a leading global provider of mission-critical products and services to customers in the biopharma, healthcare, education & government, and advanced technologies & applied materials industries.
Our portfolio is used in virtually every stage of the most important research, development and production activities in the industries we serve.
Our global footprint enables us to serve more than 225,000 customer locations and gives us extensive access to research laboratories and scientists in more than 180 countries. We set science in motion to create a better world.
More than 13,500 strong, our associates are passionate about our mission to set science in motion to create a better world. We share enthusiasm for innovation, excellence, and achievement. Whether we are collaborating with our customers to advance science or solve multifaceted problems, we help them reach their goals more efficiently and effectively.
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