Region Sales Director - Central

Location

Please note: this is a US Homeworker (Remote) position, but candidates considered for the role must reside in the Central region of the United States. Acceptable locations include Texas, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Louisiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Mississippi and Alabama.

Job Summary

The Region Sales Director is responsible for leading a team of Account Executives and Sr. Account Executives in a defined geographic area in the US and/or Canada to achieve the organizations SOR, revenue, and profitability goals. This role reports directly to the VP of Sales, Americas and is a member of the sales leadership team for the America's region at Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT).

Key Responsibilities

The Region Sales Director is responsible for leading the sales team of 5-10 direct reports and is accountable to the business objectives and selling initiatives in the region. It is expected that the RSD can lead and coach their team and, as needed, take the lead on key relationships within their geography to drive results. A strong player/coach mentality will be needed as ONT looks to expand their commercial capabilities over the next several years. The RSD will be responsible for interacting with cross function teams, including marketing, field applications, technical service, customer service, and inside sales.

Duties

Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Leads sales team to drive key geographical SOR, Revenue, and profitability goals within the broader America's region.

• As a member of the AMR sales leadership team, works directly with the VP of Sales, America's to drive key sales and marketing initiatives and work together to derive solutions for challenges facing the field sales team both internally and externally.

• Accountable for region strategic plan for commercial activity to disrupt the current NGS market

• Coaches team to develop sales skills and business acumen with a focus on career development and advancement of their team

• Drives key customer partnerships and KOL relationships as necessary to further develop our overall brand presence in the market.

• Develops strong collaboration with our internal sales enablement and sales operations teams to accelerate capabilities and influence development of sales tools and training that best serve the ONT selling organization.

Qualifications/ Education

• BSc degree (preferably in the Lifesciences)

• Post Graduate Study in related field or MBA

Experience

• 10+ years commercial experience in field sales, sales leadership, marketing, and/or sales training.

• 3-5+ years field sales management experience.

• Experience of working under pressure with minimum supervision in a highly matrixed sales and service environment

• Experience working with integrated systems and a CRM

• Experience working with research/life science departments highly preferred

• Experience within corporate/commercial markets highly preferred

• NGS experience highly preferred

• Marketing and/or Sales Training experience

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Knowledge of the Life Sciences research market
• Strong communication skills, English, written and verbal
• Ability to communicate complex science in an easy-to-understand way
• Good business sense and the ability to work to timeframe and budget
• Excellent organizational and team-work skills
• Strong negotiation skills
• Local knowledge of best business practices

Attitude/Other Requirements

• Confidence, tact
• Positive, can-do attitude
• Sound judgement and self-sufficient.
• Desire to challenge the status quo.

Compensation/Benefits:

The salary for this role is between $183,380 to $275,070 USD. The salary offered will reflect the skills and experience of the candidate.

Certain roles within ONT are eligible for annual bonus and stock. These awards are allocated based on individual performance.

Employees based in the US have the option to choose healthcare benefits, participate in the company 401(k) plan and company match, we also offer short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, and commuter benefits to name a few.

Company Overview:

Oxford Nanopore Technologies is headquartered at the Oxford Science Park outside Oxford, UK, with satellite offices and commercial presence in many global locations across the US, APAC and Europe. Oxford Nanopore employs from multiple subject areas including nanopore science, molecular biology and applications, informatics, engineering, electronics, manufacturing and commercialization. The management team, led by CEO Dr. Gordon Sanghera, has a track record of delivering disruptive technologies to the market.

Oxford Nanopore's sequencing platform is the only technology that offers real-time analysis (for rapid insights), in fully scalable formats from pocket to population scale, that can analyze native DNA or RNA and sequence any length of fragment to achieve short to ultra-long read lengths.

Our goal is to enable the analysis of any living thing, by anyone, anywhere. We offer real-time nanopore-based DNA/RNA sequencing technology: accessible, easy to use and fully scalable for any requirement.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We select and employ candidates only in accordance with their merits, qualifications, and abilities to perform the duties of the job regardless of gender, marital status, race, religion, color, age, disability, sexual orientation, military, or veteran status. If you require accommodation to complete the application or interview process, please contact human.resources@nanoporetech.com To learn more, visit: https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf

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