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Scientific Sales Specialist

About Magnitude Biosciences

Magnitude Biosciences is a specialist contract research organisation delivering C. elegans solutions to biotechnology, manufacturing and pharmaceutical industries. We are a team of experts who combine our C. elegans expertise, unique automated C. elegans assays and Healthspan technology and understanding of customer challenges to accelerate customised projects tailored to answer customers’ specific research questions. 

We are a small but quickly growing company who started off as a Durham University spin-out and are now successfully working with non-academic industry customers ranging from small longevity biotechs, through natural products suppliers to large manufacturing companies. We work with customers all over the world, including across Europe and North America and Asia. 

About the Role

We are looking for a Scientific Sales Specialist to join our small Business Development team. The post holder will:

• Be the technical and scientific lead on sales calls to support on technical questions
• Help plan the scientific aspects of customer projects
• Lead proposal writing 
• Help us find and reach out to industrial researchers who would benefit from our services (finding where there is a good fit between their research area and what we offer)
• Help as the interface between external customers and our internal scientific and R&D teams, such as helping decide what focus areas we generate data for in internal R&D that would also help us in our marketing materials

About You

• Experience working in a customer-facing or business development role is ideal but not essential
• Enthusiastic about working with potential customers and being customer-facing
• Biological scientist by background with at least one year, and ideally several, in a research setting
• Understanding of biotech companies or other life sciences industry is useful
• Strong written and verbal communicator
• Well-organised and detail-oriented 
• Knowledge or experience of C. elegans research is ideal but not essential
• Confident reading and reviewing the scientific literature

Further Information

As a small but quickly growing company, there is great scope for personal growth for this role and a bright future for someone looking to prove themselves in life science sales. 

We are headquartered near Durham, UK and have a preference for someone either willing to relocate to the area or who is already local but are also open to fully remote working from other parts of the U.K., with the occasional visits to Durham.

This is ideally a permanent, full-time position but we are open to discussions about part-time working or working on a contractual basis.

Annual salary: £25-40k, dependent on experience

Interested? Please email a CV and an explanation of why you are a good fit for this role to info@magnitudebiosciences.com 

Any questions, please email info@magnitudebiosciences.com

Find out more about the company at https://magnitudebiosciences.com