Sales Account Manager – Consumables – Central Italy

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Sales Account Manager – Consumables – Central Italy

As our next Sales Account Manager, you will be responsible of the success of our Agilent Chemistries & Supplies consumables portfolio, including our GC & HPLC columns, our sample preparation solutions and laboratory equipment.

Your key responsibilities will include

• Generating existing and/or new sales across different accounts & industry on your designated territory
• Developing accounts and maintaining positive ongoing long-term relationships with key customers
• Acting to understand customer needs and identifying solutions to non-standard tasks/queries to creates business opportunities
• Promoting and selling products and/or solutions to current or new customers and informs customers of new product introductions
• Creating monitors and revising lead generation plans.
• Determining and developing approaches to sales assignments to achieve quota/ strategies
• Leading projects requiring coordination with other functions, organizations

This role won’t be head-office based and you will be working remotely combined with travel to customer sites in across Central Italy, especially in the Lazio region but also across Umbria, Toscana and Emilia-Romagna (a company car will be available to you).

Qualifications

We are looking for a motivated individual with the following background:

• University Degree in Chemistry (Analytical Chemistry, Biochemistry…) or potentially another Life Science field
• Significant experience in sales to laboratories and good knowledge of laboratory workflows 
• Good knowledge of analytical techniques such as chromatography, spectrometry and/or spectroscopy 
• Full proficiency in Italian and at least good level of English

Apart from these more technical skills and qualifications, you should also bring the following

• Excellent presentation, communication, interpersonal and customer-facing skills.
• Ability to work independently on projects, whilst also collaborating as part of a team.
• Outstanding problem-solving abilities, exceptional organizational skills, and the capacity to run multiple projects at once with efficiency and attention to timely completion.
• Willingness to travel occasionally (throughout Europe) up to 25% of the time.

On a personal level, you are autonomous, outgoing and customer focused. You also have excellent interpersonal and persuasion skills to interact with many external and internal partners. You show a real can-do attitude, resilience and you like to help others. Whilst being flexible and adaptable, you have also strong planning, organizational and time management skills.

We Offer

• Permanent Contract
• Outstanding company culture
• Career development opportunities
• Company car and mobile phone
• Company pension scheme, yearly company bonus, private health care, stock purchase plan, medical & life insurance
• A position within an international organization, offering a dynamic working environment, with exciting challenges and opportunities

We will make sure you get all the training and development opportunities you need to become the best in your field!

Agilent Technologies, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We value diversity at all levels. All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, pregnancy, race, religion or religious creed, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, local law, ordinance, or regulation and will not be discriminated against on these bases.

• Option to Work Remote: Yes
• Travel Required: 50% of the Time
• Schedule: Full time
• Shift: Day
• Duration: No End Date
• Job Function: Sales