What are the responsibilities and job description for the Key Account Manager - Primary Pharmaceutical Packaging position at ARaymond?
Remote Hybrid / Home Office :
Must reside in California, Nevada, Oregon, Arizona, Utah, or other state in Western US region. Must be able to travel to all western coast states.
About the Company
Founded in 2007, ARaymondLife is a French pharmaceutical company that designs and produces packaging solutions for the healthcare industries. Its recognized know-how in thermoplastic injection and bi-injection allows it to develop innovative solutions and offer the market global responses, in collaboration with international industrial partners.
ARaymondLife offers its own patented RayDyLyo® pharmaceutical packaging range, developed internally by its design office. RayDyLyo is a plastic press-fit closure for injectable vials and is an alternative to the aluminum cap.
Based in Grenoble (France), ARaymondLife with 90 employees.
The main responsibilities is to promote and sell the RayDyLyo® snap-caps on the West coast area of USA and Western Canada by visiting potential customers. Aligned to customer needs, you will promote ARLife as the solutions innovator of healthcare packaging to increase the turnover in USA. Your hard sales skills are very important to succeed, but above all your soft skills are necessary, your ambition to go beyond yourself and participate in a collaborative team .
Roles and responsibilities
Reporting to the Director of ARaymondLife NA Localization and in connection with the sales director and the French team, you will take on the following tasks :
- As the Key Account Manager, responsible for Business Development for North America, generate and manage new leads for the US . Support by setting up meetings, promoting our innovative products and building relationships with new potential customers.
- Research emerging trends, direct marketing activities, and manage existing alliances .
- Collaborate relationships with the vial, stoppers, fill / finish machine, and sterilization suppliers .
- US Trade show representative for ARLife - Attend local tradeshows. Create new business leads, evaluate trade show to ensure value-creation.
- Be the US local primary resource for all support and needs . This includes customers, suppliers, ARLife colleagues etc. Organize visits (meeting with customers, booking and logistics) when French team will support the US business.
- Understand and formalize the needs of customers (technical requirements)
- Negotiate with customers, prepare, and send quotations. Prepare and send quotations with Sales Force (and use for all leads)
- Follow up of the customer’s satisfaction.
Education / Experience
Soft Skills
Reporting to this position
None
Physical demands
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