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    Business Development Executive

    Homebased, United KingdomRemoteFull-timePosted 1mo ago
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    Job description

    This is a full time, permanent position working 39 hours per week flexibly. This role is homebased across the UK with an operational base in Cork, Ireland. This role will require significant travel across the UK & Ireland.

    As Business Development Exec for PSS UK/IRE, reporting to the Managing Director of PSS UK/IRE, you will be responsible for driving the region’s business development of PSS, ensuring consistent, rapid and sustainable growth in sales across Ireland and United Kingdom. You will be working in collaboration with an experienced team of PSS operations leaders to achieve these objectives.

    Job Responsibilities that you be covering:

    • You will drive the business development strategy and growth efforts for PSS across the UK and Ireland.
    • You will work closely with PSS Leadership to understand priorities and set ambitious yet achievable annual targets.
    • You will identify, pursue, and win new PSS opportunities, developing key accounts through analysing client organisations and uncovering their service requirements.
    • You will assess client needs and help design tailored service solutions, collaborating with PSS Leadership to create proposals, present to clients, and deliver outcomes that meet revenue and profitability goals.
    • You will collaborate with global colleagues on multi‑regional projects, manage contracting processes for new business, maintain accurate CRM reporting, and support marketing initiatives to promote the Eurofins brand.
    • You will monitor customer satisfaction for existing clients and undertake additional duties as required to support successful service delivery.

    What skills, qualifications and experiences you will hold as an Business Development Executive:

    • As a Business Development Executive, you will hold a degree (or equivalent experience) in a life sciences discipline, or demonstrate relevant vocational training and business expertise.
    • You will have proven business development success at senior levels within the target industry, ideally with experience in Pharma Insourcing.
    • As a Business Development Executive, you will operate confidently within GxP environments and ensure all activities meet regulatory expectations.
    • You will use expert knowledge of product commercialisation, manufacturing, supply chain processes, and associated testing and service needs within your clients’ markets.
    • You will manage key commercial and contractual processes—such as CDAs, MSAs, and pricing agreements—while supporting negotiations and resolving commercial issues with senior oversight.
    • As a Business Development Executive, you will act as a strong communicator, presenter, and team player, building effective networks and maintaining a customer‑focused, service‑led approach at all times.

    At Eurofins we are growing, innovating and always learning. We celebrate the achievements of our employees through annual long service awards, recognise our colleagues special life events, and we are committed to charitable causes through global fundraising activities.

    As a Eurofins employee you will benefit from:

    • Being part of a Reward and Recognition Scheme, recognising great work across our teams.
    • Holiday entitlement increases with service.
    • The option to opt into our Health Cash Plan, designed to help look after your everyday health and wellbeing. This allows you to claim back the cost of routine healthcare expenses such as dental check-ups, eye tests, glasses or contact lenses and other everyday medical treatments.
    • Life Assurance from day one, providing cover of four times your annual salary.
    • Automatic enrolment into our Company Pension Plan after three months (with the flexibility to opt out if you choose)
    • Access to our Employee Assistance Programme, offering 24/7 confidential support for both personal and work-related matters.
    • Being able to register your interest in volunteering days, which are designed to support employees who wish to do voluntary work during working hours as part of a wider strategy to contribute positively to the local community.
    • Free on-site car parking.
    • The opportunity to explore worldwide opportunities.
    • Everyone who joins our team also gets access to Perkbox, allowing you to save money all year round. Whether its supermarket savings or days out, the daily coffee or a summer holiday – there’s something to suit everyone’s lifestyle.

    What Happens Next

    Our people are the backbone of what we do, so it's incredibly important we find the right individuals to join us. As a potential new recruit you'll be invited to meet the team in the form of an assessment centre or a staged interview process dependent on the role and it's requirements, this will give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get you know your key skills and strengths.

    Your data

    As part of any recruitment process, the company collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. The company is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations.

    We embrace diversity! Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

    For more information about Eurofins PSS® please visit our website and watch a message below from our Global Head, Beth Di Paolo.

    Job details are sourced from the employer's original posting.

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    About the company

    Eurofins

    Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins works with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate. Eurofins believes it is a global leader in food, environmental, pharmaceutical and cosmetics products testing and in agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies. Eurofins PSS Insourcing has an exciting and rewarding opportunity for a Business Development Manager to join our team.  We are searching for a business development professional with proven experience selling and implementing high-value sales.  Someone who thrives on identifying and closing new business caring for the client through the process will succeed in this role. This position offers the excitement of hunting for new clients with the goal of diversifying our offerings and client base as well as the opportunity to foster and expand partnerships with key clients.  This is a hybrid role working remotely from a home office, travelling locally and within the region for prospect and current client meetings as well as full days spent at current client sites to maximize networking and relationship building opportunities. A successful candidate will have a proven track record and is comfortable reaching out to and meeting with high level decision makers including C-Suite.  This position will manage the strategic sales process including identifying client needs, defining and presenting how PSS can address them, as well as managing the implementation process for new programs. If you’re looking for a rewarding career, a place to call home, apply with us today! 

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