The Business Development role is critical to driving Sapient's growth by identifying, developing, and closing new business opportunities across pharma and biotech partners.
Requirements
- Extensive drug development commercial experience
- Deep customer relationships within pharma, biotech, and emerging biopharma markets
- Demonstrated success in sales within the desired pharma markets in life science services or products
- Excellent listening, presentation, and networking abilities
- Strong interpersonal skills for effective internal and external collaboration
- Self-motivated with a results-driven approach and proven track record of outperformance
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- Willingness to travel up to 50% of the time
- Proven experience in marketing, sales support, or related field
- Proven knowledge of AI systems and agent training for outreach success
- Strong technical acumen with Mass Spectrometry, 'omics, or both with specific experience in metabolomics
- Strong prospecting skills and capacity to cultivate client relationships
- Strong understanding of market dynamics and competitive landscape
- Ability to clearly present strategies, data, reports, etc. and influence stakeholders effectively
- Familiarity with CRM software (Salesforce)
- Exceptional analytical skills with a keen attention to detail