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Business Development Manager
Are you passionate about biotechnology and business development?
Do you enjoy building strategic partnerships, identifying new commercial opportunities and helping innovative technologies gain traction within the biotech and cell therapy market?
We are looking for a Business Development Manager to support the commercial growth of an innovative life sciences scale-up. This is a unique opportunity to combine scientific understanding, relationship management and commercial ownership in a role with direct impact on the future of advanced cell therapy manufacturing.
Medical Devices
Sales
Zeist - Netherlands
40 hours per week
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About your role
This is how you will make the difference
- Identify and engage new customers within biotech, biopharma and academic GMP environments
- Generate and qualify new business opportunities through outreach, networking and industry events
- Develop strategic partnerships with key opinion leaders, CROs and technology partners
- Build and execute territory and account development plans
- Lead commercial discussions, scientific presentations and proposal development
- Manage and forecast sales pipelines to achieve ambitious growth targets
- Gather customer feedback and translate market needs into product improvement opportunities
- Collaborate closely with marketing on conferences, campaigns and market visibility initiatives
- Represent the company at international conferences, customer meetings and industry events
what's needed
What you bring
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Biotechnology, Biomedical Sciences, Life Sciences or a related scientific discipline
- Approximately 3 years of experience in Business Development, Sales, Account Management or a similar commercial role
- Proven ability to generate opportunities and build long-term customer relationships
- Strong scientific understanding and the ability to discuss cell culture processes, GMP environments and bioprocess technologies
- Excellent communication, presentation and negotiation skills
- Experience working with CRM systems and commercial sales processes
- Entrepreneurial mindset with a proactive and results-driven approach
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced scale-up environment
- Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Fluent in English, spoken & written in Dutch is a plus
- Willingness to travel internationally (approximately 40%
What we offer
What's in it for you
- The opportunity to make a direct impact on the growth of an innovative life sciences scale-up
- A highly visible role with significant ownership and autonomy
- Exposure to cutting-edge technologies within the cell and regenerative therapy market
- Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams across commercial, technical and operational functions
- An entrepreneurial environment where innovation and initiative are highly valued
- International exposure through customer visits, partnerships and industry conferences
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- The opportunity to help shape both the commercial strategy and future growth of the organization
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