Sales Associate Uk - Oxfordshire, United Kingdom - Oxford Nanopore Technologies

Oxford Nanopore Technologies

Verified Company

Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Oxford Nanopore Technologies is headquartered at the Oxford Science Park outside Oxford, UK, with satellite offices and a commercial presence in many global locations across the US, APAC and Europe.

Oxford Nanopore's sequencing platform is the only technology that offers real-time analysis, in fully scalable formats from pocket to population scale, that can analyse native DNA or RNA and sequence any length of fragment to achieve short to ultra-long read lengths.

Our goal is to enable the analysis of any living thing, by anyone, anywhere

We are looking for a highly motivated
Sales Associate in our Inside Sales Team in Europe to provide our team of Directors, Team Managers, and Account Managers with sales administrational support, but also to help with lead triage, outbound qualification, and other sales conversion activities for new and repeat business.

The Sales Associate is responsible for a strong sales administrational routine as outlined in highlights below and being the 'œoffice backbone'
- for the Sales Team. We're looking for the position to be in/near Oxford, so that 3 to 4 office days per week are possible.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

Triage or answer incoming customer requests from our Salesforce Sales Queue
Triage, contact and qualify leads to opportunities to drive business as requested
Manage our instrument contract renewals
Create leads lists, i.e. SciLeads, for Account Managers or selfdirected prospecting
Help with sales events organisation (all aspects from plan to invite to followup)
Provide additional support as needed, i.e. take meeting notes, channel partner support, proactively manage smaller opportunities, enrich leads lists with missing data
Other duties as they arise

Who We're Looking For...

An organiser with the drive to succeed in a sales career, who can manage different processes, with the ability to execute and deliver consistently, but also to delegate.

You will need to have a strong interest for the commercial aspects of an organisation, as priorities and tasks are defined by sales targets.

Equally, priorities can change at short notice, so we're looking for somebody with a certain degree of flexibility.

Not needed, but prior sales and sales administration experience in a research/life science company and Salesforce knowledge, would be highly beneficial.

Fluent English is a must, any other languages, especially German, would be beneficial.

You will be an excellent team player and able to build positive relationships with others. Ideally, you have experience of working in a distributed team, and you're comfortable in a fast-paced environment.

You have a positive approach with a can-do mindset and can use your initiative as well as exercise good judgement and tact.

We're looking for the position to be in or near Oxford so that 3 to 4 office days per week are possible.

We offer outstanding benefits to include an attractive bonus, generous pension contributions, private healthcare and an excellent starting salary.

Based within beautiful, landscaped surroundings with tree-lined walks, water features and a lake, all of which make for a wonderful working environment.

LI-SP1

Oxford Nanopore's goal is to bring the widest benefits to society through enabling the analysis of anything, by anyone, anywhere.

The company has developed a new generation of nanopore-based sensing technology enabling the real-time, high-performance, accessible and scalable analysis of DNA and RNA.

The technology is used in more than 100 countries to understand the biology of humans and diseases, plants, animals, bacteria, viruses and whole environments.

Oxford Nanopore was founded in 2005 as a spin-out from the University of Oxford and now employs over 1000 employees around the world.