Join Progress - Experts in Life Sciences as a Director Sales
38 hours | Sales and Acquisition | Growth Strategies | Network Building
Are you a driven and strategic leader with a proven track record in sales, acquisition & business development in Life Sciences? Do you excel at building new client relationships and identifying market opportunities? Progress might be your perfect match.
Your challenges
As a Director Sales at Progress, you will play a crucial role in driving our commercial growth through acquisition & business development and ensuring we meet the needs of our clients in the Life Sciences sector, with focus on ATMP, Biotech, Pharma and hospital pharmacies. You will have a diverse and strategic role, including:
- Co developing, implementing, and monitoring the Progress sales and acquisition strategy and ambition, translating it into concrete actions, work processes, and procedures.
- Building and nurturing strong relationships with potential clients, serving as the first point of contact and ensuring their needs are met.
- Proactively identifying and pursuing new market opportunities to generate leads and convert them into concrete opportunities.
- Translating customer requests into concrete, tailored quotations and signed contracts.
- Setting up and maintaining the CRM system to optimize client management and track acquisition efforts.
- Representing Progress at networking events, seminars, and industry gatherings to expand our network and strengthen our market position.
- Collaborating closely with the Director Operations on resource planning, troubleshooting, and monitoring client satisfaction.
Our offer to you
Focus on human capital
Informal work environment
Healthy work-life balance
Short communication lines
Company car
Competitive salary and benefits
Our offer
- A varied job in challenging projects at renowned companies in the life sciences & healthcare industry;
- a healthy growing company with an informal work environment and people centric culture;
- a personal development budget and continuous professional development, both in practice and through courses, trainings and networking events;
- short communication lines, personal commitment, team spirit;
- a healthy work-life balance; work 38 hours a week;
- a competitive salary with a bonus on top;
- 25 days of paid annual leave, and the opportunity to build up additional leave;
- a flexible mobility scheme: the choice of various options such as a lease car or travel allowance;
- a contribution to your pension scheme;
- an opportunity to take part in our collective employee participation scheme;
- different social and fun activities, like team events, family day and an end-year weekend.
Your profile
At Progress, your personality and values matter as much as your skills. We are looking for someone who embodies our values: integrity, flexibility, customer focus, and expertise.
- Experience: At least 5 years of experience in a similar sales and acquisition position within the Life Sciences industry, with a strong and relevant network. A strong background in one or more of our expertise area’s engineering, CQV, Quality, CMC/MSAT or (bio-)pharmaceutical operations
- Expertise: Proven ability to act at both strategic and operational levels, with a demonstrated focus on acquisition, business development and client relationship management.
- Education: Academic degree (WO) or higher professional education (HBO) with academic-level thinking.
- Skills:
- Commercial Mindset: A natural customer- and solution-oriented approach to work.
- Communication Skills: Fluent in Dutch and English, both written and spoken, with experience in sales conversation techniques.
- Client-Centric: Skilled in communicating at executive and management levels, translating client needs into concrete, tailored proposals.
- Proactive and Organized: Capable of managing multiple leads simultaneously, setting priorities, and meeting deadlines.
- Team Player: Collaborative, with a strong focus on building and maintaining relationships both internally and externally.
Recruitment Process
As part of the recruitment process, an assessment may be conducted to ensure the best match between the candidate and the role.
Our team
The strength of Progress is the interaction between highly qualified and motivated colleagues, supported by a strong management team. Colleagues help each other and share their professional know-how by regularly evaluating projects and sharing experiences. After a training period, you become part of a close-knit and enthusiastic team.
Ready to take your career to the next level?
Meet our experts
For more information please contact
Haris Achterberg
Human Resources Manager
Office: +31 (0)235635016
Mobile: +31 (0)6 48 08 91 78
