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North American Channel Manager, Life Sciences — Ashland
Lead Ashland’s North American distributor strategy for its Life Sciences business. Drive partner growth through planning, forecasting, training, and market engagement.
Apraksts
- Shape and deliver the North American channel strategy for Ashland Life Sciences.
- Recruit and develop effective channel partners.
- Set annual plans, revenue goals, and growth initiatives with partners.
- Build trusted relationships with distributor executives and operating teams.
- Review sales results, strategic priorities, and customer satisfaction with partners.
- Create joint account plans, marketing efforts, and business development programs.
- Oversee distributor agreements, performance standards, and compliance.
- Track sales pipelines, forecast reliability, inventory, and demand planning.
- Launch initiatives to strengthen channel performance, customer engagement, and conversion.
- Provide technical, product, and commercial training to channel partners.
- Equip partners to present Ashland’s value proposition and innovation portfolio.
- Advance organizational objectives through initiative, execution, performance, and safe practices.
- Strengthen organizational capability through collaboration, talent development, and constructive communication.
- Report to the Head of Strategic Accounts and Market Development.
Prasības
- Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, chemistry, life sciences, biotechnology, pharmaceutical sciences, or a related field.
- At least three years of experience in channel management, sales, business development, or distributor management in specialty chemicals, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, excipients, nutraceuticals, or life sciences.
- Commercial judgment and experience creating growth strategies.
- Ability to influence and negotiate with executives and senior leaders.
- Strong analytical, forecasting, and business planning skills.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and relationship management skills.
- Willingness to travel approximately 30–50% across North America.
- Consistently responsible and ethical conduct.
- Ability to understand the business, make complex decisions, and identify new ways to create value.
- Experience in pharmaceutical excipients, nutraceutical ingredients, biopharmaceutical solutions, cell culture media, microbiology, or related life science markets is preferred.
- An MBA or advanced degree in business or a life sciences discipline is preferred.
- Experience in a matrixed global organization is preferred.
- Familiarity with CRM and sales analytics tools such as Salesforce is preferred.
Priekšrocības
- Competitive industry salary.
- Employee benefits.
- Performance-based incentive plans.
- Development and advancement opportunities across the global organization.
- A diverse work environment.
- A dynamic and challenging work environment.