Senior Business Development Manager Pharma

The Client:

JBAndrews is working with a leading global provider of specialist Transport & Freight Forwarding across multiple customer sectors. This specific business unit provides Air & Sea Freight solutions and supply chain optimisation solutions worldwide. Currently the company is looking to focus on the national level development of their General Cargo verticals, however France will be heavily focused now on Pharma as a customer market.

The Role:
* Due to planned growth, the business requires an experienced Business Development Manager to aid the sales department and help drive growth the refreshed Air & Sea Freight products, focusing on all-sized accounts for the Pharma vertical.
* Targeting new procedures & solutions across the specific target verticals in their multiple industries (Pharma/Healthcare/Life Sciences), and by internal operations too, you will utilise your high level relationships to help set the structures in place to secure sales growth and to align the business with the strategic intents outlined.
* This position will involve fostering new relationships, taking final decisions on which to keep and which to cut, working with the individual vertical and projects teams in cost-cutting exercises, and generating/hunting new business to be fostered for the long-term at corporate, local, and international levels.
* The position will hold Air & Sea Freight focus, and will co-ordinate closely with the Import & Export departments.

The Requirements:
* The business is seeking someone with a background in Freight Forwarding in a senior sales and commercial, level to control the area sales function, with a high level of technical understanding and input specifically for the Pharma vertical.
* You should possess at least 5 years’ experience in Forwarding sales with Pharma customers, consistently performing to ensure sales targets are hit and the logistical aspects are satisfied on a day-to-day, and strategic, level, with local, domestic, and multi-national organisations.
* Ideally the candidate will be able to demonstrate strong leadership skills through prior experience on an International level.
* Ideally the candidate will have managed small to large sized customer accounts before, with team responsibility too at some stage in their career.
* Grassroots experience in a logistics environment in a number of different disciplines and locations would be highly beneficial.
* The ideal candidate will be based in Paris, Franc, and will speak fluent French & English.

Due to the large number of applications if you have not heard anything within 14 days then unfortunately you have been unsuccessful.

About JBAndrews – Global Solutions

JBAndrews is a leading executive search and selection business, based in the UK & the UAE. We provide retained and contingency recruitment solutions globally, specialising in the global Logistics & Supply Chain, Medical & Scientific, and Industrial sectors.