General Manager - Sales - Food Testing Laboratory

- Design and implement a strategic business plan that expands company's customer base and ensure its strong presence

- Achieve sales growth and hit sales targets by successfully managing the sales and marketing team.

- Own objective setting, mentoring and performance monitoring of sales and marketing team.

- Pipeline management using CRM system and channel partner management

- Build and promote strong, long lasting customer relationships by partnering with them and understand their needs

- Present sales reports and realistic forecasts to the management teams

- Identify emerging markets and market shifts while being fully aware of new relevant services and competition status

- - Face of the company- Plan and execute promotional activities, tradeshows, content marketing (with corporate communications) with branding and messaging.

- Regular interaction with operation, finance and technical team.

- Competitor assessment, pricing assessment, contract negotiation and closing.

- Have hands on experience in reaching out to and acquiring customers in laboratory service industry (Food and Pharma) in addition to managing the sales and marketing function.

- Technically competent and knowledgeable on entire Laboratory service portfolio such Food and Parma including leachates and extracts.

- Identify and build new business relationships with new prospects as well as with new groups within existing accounts (sales calls, lead follow up, on-site seminars, trade shows, and user meetings).

- Communicate with management-level decision makers to structure new deals and build upon existing business relationships.

- Coordinate customer visits with companys scientists, specialists, and operational team

- Effectively adapt business development plans based oncompanys- Analytical Services strengths and needs unique to the categories.

- Maintains accurate records of all sales and prospecting activities including sales calls, presentations, closed sales, and follow-up activities within the assigned territory, including the use of Salesforce to maintain accurate records to maximize territory potential.

- Maintain an accurate sales forecast which must be updated weekly/monthly.

- Actively pursue adjacencies of laboratory service to expedite business growth

- Performs other duties as required and assigned.