Internal Sales Life Sciences

Internal Sales Executive - Life Sciences

Birmingham | £28,000-£30,000 + 25%

Are you a Life Sciences graduate with a commercial mindset and looking to build a career in scientific sales?

Perhaps you already have some sales or customer-facing experience, or you know that your personality and strengths lie in talking to people, building relationships and spotting opportunities rather than working in the lab.

We're working with a well-established and growing scientific business specialising in laboratory equipment and consumables.

They're looking for an ambitious Internal Sales Executive to join their Birmingham team.

This is a brilliant opportunity to develop your commercial skills, learn from an experienced sales team and build a long-term career within the scientific sector.

What you'll be doing

• Manage and grow your own portfolio of existing life science customers


• Proactively speak with customers to understand their requirements and identify opportunities


• Develop existing accounts through cross-selling, repeat business and increased engagement


• Reconnect with lapsed customers and build those relationships


• Research and approach prospective customers to generate new business


• Qualify inbound and outbound leads and identify the best next step


• Arrange qualified appointments for the field sales team


• Prepare and follow up quotations


• Use customer and sales data to spot commercial opportunities


• Keep CRM records and pipeline activity up to date


• Work closely with Field Sales, Product Specialists, Marketing and Customer Service

What we're looking for

• A degree in a Life Sciences discipline - essential


• Confident and comfortable speaking with customers on the telephone


• Proactive, enthusiastic and commercially minded


• Naturally curious, with the confidence to ask good questions and build relationships


• Ambitious and motivated by achieving results


• Organised and comfortable managing multiple customers and opportunities


• Positive, coachable and keen to learn


• Previous sales, telesales or customer-facing experience would be advantageous, but isn't essential


• Experience within laboratories, academia, biotech or another life science environment would also be beneficial

What's on offer

• £28,000-£30,000 basic salary


• 25% OTE


• Office-based role in Birmingham


• 25 days holiday + bank holidays + Christmas shutdown


• Structured induction, training and ongoing development


• Friendly, supportive and collaborative team culture

If you have a Life Sciences degree, some solid sales experience and the ambition to take your career into the field, we'd love to hear from you.