Business Development or Senior Business Development Manager

Title: Business Development or Senior Business Development Manager

Location: US

Job ID

 

2025-13834

Overview

The (Senior) Business Development Manager drives sales growth of assigned region in close coordination with WuXi Biology leadership. The (Senior) Business Development Manager will have an additional focus on penetrating certain assigned customers with significant growth opportunity, as assigned by management. The incumbent of this role will close and implement growth opportunities with Companies in the assigned territory. The (Senior) Manager, Business Development’s most important means of interacting with customers and prospects is through face-to-face meetings and is responsible for achieving an assigned sales and profit goal.

 

Please note this role can be elevated to a Senior BD Manager depending on qualifications.  

Responsibilities

• Identify key decision makers relative to WuXi Biology business for potential contacts
• Daily prospecting to get new leads
• Qualify leads and present opportunities to their manager and WuXi Biology technical team.
• Facilitate business meeting with WuXi AppTec with proper agenda, attendees, focus on opportunity and follow-up; meeting summary and action items
• Project a professional image of WuXi Biology as a solutions provider with clearly articulated messages
• Support proposal negotiation to close the contract as defined by the supervisor
• Point of contact for WuXi Biology and customer; ensure communication channels; pro-actively identify areas of growth opportunity; ensure stable relationship
• Identify issues which could jeopardize the partnership; pose solutions
• Maintain excellent relationships with internal business partners at WuXi
• Facilitate customer travel to China
• Effective communication skills both internally and externally to ensure teamwork to achieve common goals across the WuXi Biology unit, and be open to mentoring to effective techniques and sales strategies

Job Requirements:

• Achieves assigned sales quota
• Achieves assigned supplier and customer onboarding goals
• Meets assigned expectations for profit margin on contracts
• Achieves new account acquisition targets
• Completes required training and development objectives within the assigned time frame
• Travel Requirements: If local, 40% out-of-office travel day visits (not overnight) to clients, plus up to 20% overnight travel to attend conferences.  If remote, 25% travel overnight to visit clients and attend conferences.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in life sciences (preferably in biology or chemistry). with 3+ years of industrial experience and at least one year of business development experience preferred
• Experience in CRO is a plus/preferred
• This position requires frequent travel (car, train, plane)
• Candidates must have a valid driver’s license and passport
• PC proficiency

Technical Skills / Knowledge:
• Demonstrates a broad understanding of discovery biology leading to candidate selection and preclinical development
• Able to close deals by effectively utilizing internal resources.
• Demonstrated abilities in the areas of listening, negotiations, teamwork, and persuasiveness.
• Coordinates with other BDs or scientific counterparts to provide appropriate solutions to clients.

Independence/ Accountability:
• Demonstrates the ability to be a self-starter
• Functions in a self-motivated and highly flexible manner
• Must be organized and detail-oriented
• Must be a team player

Problem Solving:
• Possesses proven experience in creating or capitalizing on opportunities leading to successful outcomes, ideally with Business Development relevance

Leadership Activities:
• Independently identifies potential prospects
• Coordinates with other BD and scientific counterparts to provide appropriate solutions to clients.
• Marketing to ensure coordination of efforts and ensure good communication with all parties.

Communication Skills:
Interpersonal skill set for effective listening, dialogue and interactions
Timely communication internally and externally

 

 

 

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability

 

This job description does not state or imply that the above are the only duties and responsibilities assigned to this position.  Employees holding this position will be required to perform any other job-related duties as requested by Management.