BDM Life Sciences Ireland & UK

Location: Remote in the United Kingdom, with coverage of Ireland and travel required across the UK and Ireland

Company

Provides cleaning, hygiene, infection-prevention, and chemical solutions for customers across multiple industries, including regulated life sciences manufacturing.

What you will do

• Develop new business opportunities and profitable revenue growth across the UK and Ireland life sciences sector.
• Identify, engage, and qualify prospects in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, cosmetics, and other regulated manufacturing environments.
• Build and manage target-account plans, prospect maps, customer contact strategies, pipeline values, and conversion milestones.
• Engage procurement, quality, production, and technical stakeholders through consultative selling and solution development.
• Support proposals, pricing discussions, negotiations, tenders, trials, product demonstrations, and competitive displacement opportunities.
• Provide pipeline visibility for forecasting and collaborate with sales, marketing, technical, equipment, and global life sciences teams.

Requirements

• Proven experience in business development, sales growth, and negotiation in a technical, regulated, or solution-led B2B environment.
• Proactive and confident approach to prospecting, networking, and engaging senior decision-makers.
• Understanding of life sciences environments or the ability to build credibility in technical and regulated customer settings.
• Ability to create, manage, and progress a structured sales pipeline from initial contact through close.
• Strong organisation, follow-up discipline, and ability to manage multiple opportunities across the sales cycle.
• Willingness to travel across the UK and Ireland.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of contamination control or GMP.
• Experience tendering in regulated industries.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time role within a specialist life sciences strategic sales team.
• Opportunity to work with technical experts and recognised hygiene and cleaning solutions.
• Collaboration with sales leadership, marketing, technical, equipment, and global pharmaceutical and cosmetics colleagues.
• Focus on profitable growth, innovation projects, and long-term customer partnerships.