Technical Sales Manager – Biotechnology

Job description / Role

A leading international company in the biotechnology industry is looking for a Technical Sales Manager, based in Dubai, with experience in food ingredients. It is a fantastic and entrepreneurial opportunity with a leading player in the market in a regional management position.

Technical Sales Manager responsibilities:
• Deliver the sales as budgeted for and provide accurate reporting.
• Establish and maintain strong relationship with distributors.
• Implement sales and marketing plans.
• Communicate with Customer service to revise product sales forecast on a monthly basis to ensure adequate stock levels and avoid no delivery.
• Cooperate with Finance department to assure payments from customers are done within payment terms, improve money collection.
• Monitor competitor activity and recommend strategies for increasing market share and profitability.
• Provide technical support and product training for colleagues, distributors and customers; secure necessary technical support from the group.
• Participate and support in Exhibitions, workshops, seminars, and roadshows when required, prepare and carry out distributor & customer seminars where relevant and/or requested.
• Liaise with regional and global technical and sales managers.
• Provide technical assistance to Applications Technologist when required.
• Monitor the dispatched samples to customers and assure trials and reports are obtained.
• Monitor and interpret laboratory projects to support ongoing sales activities.
• Prepare material for and take part in distributor training sessions and assist in promotional events.

Requirements

Technical Sales Manager requirements:
• Degree qualified in Bio-Science or Food Technology
• Fluent English speaking
• Technical sales experience, in the food ingredients industry, in an application or R&D environment
• Regional market experience is not essential

About the Company

Millar Cameron has over 15 years resource solutions experience, serving both the international and domestic recruitment market.

Our clients know they can rely on us to put forward only the most suitable candidates, we believe our requirement to placement ratio is second to none. We are renowned for our speed of response, in most instances being able to provide a ‘same day’ service from receipt of the brief to submission of relevant CV’s.

Our belief is that ‘prevention is better than intervention’ and strive hard to ensure we get the right person for the job. Our commitment doesn’t stop when a placement is agreed; we follow through with both parties to ensure everyone is satisfied. Such is our success rate that in an average year less than 3% of our candidates have to be replaced—a figure that is all the more significant when one considers the extremely challenging environments that many of our placements are in.