JOB DESCRIPTION: • Retaining a direct territory sales function • Preparing sales offers, responses to tenders and similar documents • Dealing with a range of product distributors and wholesalers in the UK • Researching and making recommendations to the Board in respect of additional products • Managing the existing distributors and where necessary adding to them • Taking responsibility for the budgeting and forecasting of the product range in conjunction with the company's finance team • Liaising with the service partner to ensure a seamless customer experience and referrals from the service partner • Ensuring that CRM records for the product area are kept up to date • Liaising with other product Heads within the Group for cross selling in both directions THE CANDIDATE: The successful candidate is likely to meet the brief below: • To be educated to a minimum of degree standard in a science or engineering discipline relevant to the product area • Show a successful track record in selling a life science product into the life science industry, academia and institutions • Have an appetite to grow an already successful business • Indicate an ability to manage direct reports, distributors or to grow into the same • To work as part of a close knit and happy Group team