Senior Business Development Specialist

Lonza Biologics Porriño SLU; Walkersville (MD); On-site; USD 60,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior Business Development Specialist, where your expertise in sales and life sciences can drive impactful solutions. In this role, you will manage a portfolio of existing accounts, ensuring a seamless customer experience while collaborating with various business units. Your ability to forecast sales targets, build strong customer relationships, and communicate effectively will be key to your success. This position offers the chance to influence the direction of the business while working in a dynamic environment that values your contributions and supports your career growth.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in Sales/Business Development required.
• Strong skills in building customer relationships and delivering tailored solutions.

Responsibilities

• Drive revenue growth by selling solutions to existing accounts.
• Forecast and manage the sales funnel from opportunity generation to close.

Skills

Sales Skills

Customer Relationship Management

Communication Skills

Public Speaking

Interpersonal Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Biology

Master's degree or PhD in Life Sciences

Tools

CRM Software

MS Office Suite

Planning/Project Management Platforms

Job description

Today, Lonza is a global leader in life sciences operating across three continents. While we work in science, there’s no magic formula to how we do it. Our greatest scientific solution is talented people working together, devising ideas that help businesses to help people. In exchange, we let our people own their careers. Their ideas, big and small, genuinely improve the world. And that’s the kind of work we want to be part of.

The Senior Business Development Specialist is responsible for driving revenue growth by proactively selling solutions to an assigned portfolio of existing accounts within a defined territory. This role handles the entire sales cycle, leveraging cross-functional support teams as needed — including PSS, SST, SMEs, and Product Managers. The Senior Specialist also collaborates closely with other Lonza Business Units to deliver coordinated solutions and ensure a flawless customer experience.

Key responsibilities:

1. Accurately forecasts and delivers on quarterly and annual sales targets.
2. Builds and manages the sales funnel from new opportunity generation through close of business.
3. Demonstrates sophisticated understanding and appropriately communicates the Bioscience portfolio and Lonza’s value proposition to customers.
4. Demonstrates sophisticated product knowledge capabilities, applications, regulatory knowledge, and product justification and is recognized as an expert in the field.
5. Advanced understanding of assigned accounts, pipeline, and partnerships. Acts as a liaison between account sites, departments, and key decision makers, is capable of leveraging relationships to build long-term and balanced business.
6. Advanced understanding of account management and building high level relationships within established accounts.
7. Sophisticated ability to prospect for new business to increase the depth and breadth of Lonza’s penetration into existing accounts.
8. Gathers and communicates information on market trends and applications as well as on competitive activities to Senior Management, Product Management, and R&D.
9. Possesses strong interpersonal skills and demonstrates comfort with public speaking in front of variable audiences, including C-Suite executives at existing accounts.
10. Prioritizes, plans, and schedules time to provide optimum and effective account and territory coverage.
11. Records activities and client information in the CRM database on a daily and timely basis.
12. Occasionally consulted in developing strategies for the sales and marketing organizations that broadly impact the work and direction of others.
13. Ability to travel up to 50%, records activities and client information in CRM, and contributes to process improvements within the company.

Key requirements:

1. A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in biology or a related Life Science field is required, with at least 5 years of proven experience; a master’s degree or PhD is preferred.
2. Extensive experience in Sales/Business Development, laboratory, technical, or manufacturing roles, particularly with cell culture media.
3. Strong skills in building customer relationships, identifying needs, delivering tailored solutions, securing commitments and communicating effectively.
4. Proficiency in using CRM software, MS Office Suite, and planning/project management platforms to handle client interactions and projects.
5. Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to engage and influence collaborators at all levels.

Lonza is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a qualified individual with disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.