Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. WIKA Group is focused on strategic business development initiatives within the Industrial Instrumentation Division, and they are seeking a Business Development Manager for the Pharmaceutical sector. This role involves identifying and executing market and sales initiatives to create long-term value through customer relationships and market insights.
Responsibilities
- Drive market strategy and identify growth opportunities
- Develop strategic customer and partner relationships
- Lead customer engagement and position value-based solutions
- Collaborate cross-functionally to deliver customer solutions
- Represent WIKA at industry events, conferences and trade shows
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, or engineering
- Minimum 8 years relevant sales, product management, or marketing experience, understanding customer needs and business requirements
- Solid track record of demonstrated success in building/growing markets, segments, product lines, etc
- Excellent analytical, research, presentation, writing and communication skills including the ability to take complex ideas and concepts and effectively communicate them
- Strong financial acumen and strong analytical skills in business metrics and forecast modeling
- Ability to quickly design realistic action plans to affect change and effectively assign and manage tasks to accomplish goals
- Collaboration and team work – this position is highly cross functional and requires the ability to foster collaborative and positive relationships between sales, product management, marketing, and other groups
- Ability to work at both strategic and tactical levels
- Research ability and understanding what factors influence and shape markets including: growth trends, industry and competitive analysis, environmental conditions, technologies, and capabilities
- Demonstrated strategic and analytical leadership with strong, broad business acumen
- Proven ability to influence and lead cross-functional teams without formal authority among diverse stakeholders
- Working knowledge of components and process involved to develop market plans; ability to conduct effective market research
- MBA strongly preferred
Company Overview
The WIKA Group is a global market leader in pressure and temperature measurement. It was founded in 1946, and is headquartered in Lawrenceville, Georgia, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.wika.us.