Life Sciences Sales Development Associate

Synexa Life Sciences (Pty) Ltd.; Manchester; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Synexa Life Sciences in Manchester is seeking a recent Life Sciences graduate for a business development support role. You will identify and engage potential clients, qualify opportunities and help build a robust commercial pipeline for the company’s scientific services.

You will work with the BD and Marketing teams, contribute to RFIs and proposals, and gain formal training and development in a fast-paced CRO environment.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Proactive, self-motivated and eager to learn in a fast-paced commercial environment.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Ability to work effectively in an office-based and collaborative team environment.

Responsibilities

• Proactively generate new business opportunities through targeted outbound prospecting and market research.
• Identify, engage and qualify prospective clients across Synexa's target markets.
• Conduct discovery conversations to assess customer needs, project scope, timelines and budget.
• Convert qualified prospects into sales-qualified opportunities and hand over to the Business Development team.
• Respond to inbound enquiries and support lead qualification activities.
• Coordinate RFI responses and support proposal development with scientific and commercial teams.
• Maintain accurate CRM records, pipeline data, and customer interactions.
• Work collaboratively with Business Development and Marketing teams to achieve pipeline generation objectives.

Skills

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Organisational skills

Proactive/self-motivated

Office software proficiency

Education

BSc in Life Sciences

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Synexa Life Sciences in Manchester is seeking a recent Life Sciences graduate for a business development support role. You will identify and engage potential clients, qualify opportunities and help build a robust commercial pipeline for the company’s scientific services.

You will work with the BD and Marketing teams, contribute to RFIs and proposals, and gain formal training and development in a fast-paced CRO environment.