Regional Sales Manager – Life Sciences & Pharmaceutical Validation
Job Description
Lives International Corp. is expanding its reach with a Regional Sales Manager role focused on Life Sciences and Pharmaceutical Validation across the United States East Coast. This hybrid position centers on growing the business, stewarding key accounts, and delivering tailored equipment, software, calibration services, and technical solutions to pharma, biotech, medical-device, and life-sciences customers.
Responsibilities
- Create and implement a regional sales plan aimed at meeting revenue targets
- Identify and cultivate new opportunities within pharmaceutical and life-sciences markets
- Nurture and grow relationships with current customers and key strategic accounts
- Present Lives International’s equipment, software, calibration services, and technical solutions
- Perform product demonstrations remotely and on-site at customer locations
- Prepare quotations, commercial proposals, and account development plans
- Oversee the full sales cycle from prospecting to negotiation and close
- Maintain an up-to-date sales pipeline and track customer activity in the CRM
- Coordinate with technical, application, calibration, and customer-support teams
- Represent the company at conferences, exhibitions, customer meetings, and industry events
- Monitor market developments, customer requirements, and competitive activity
- Provide regular sales forecasts and activity reports to management
Requirements
- At least five years of successful B2B sales experience, preferably in pharmaceutical manufacturing, biotechnology, medical devices, laboratory equipment, validation, calibration, instrumentation, or related technical markets
- Proven ability to develop new accounts and manage complex sales cycles
- Experience selling technical equipment, software, or services to regulated industries
- Strong communication, presentation, negotiation, and relationship-management skills
- Ability to understand customer applications and translate technical requirements into commercial solutions
- Self-motivated and comfortable working independently in a remote, territory-based role
- Organized and disciplined in managing opportunities, follow-ups, quotations, and forecasts
- Willing and able to travel regularly within the United States
- Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, science, or a related field is preferred
Technologies
- XpertLog
Benefits
- Competitive base salary, depending on experience
- Uncapped sales commission
- Car allowance or reimbursement of approved business travel expenses
- Company-provided computer, phone, and sales tools
- Comprehensive product and application training
- Technical and commercial support from an experienced international team
- Opportunity to represent an innovative and established company in a specialized, growing market
- Significant potential to develop the U.S. territory and build long-term strategic customer relationships
- Health insurance
- Work from home
Location
Chicago, Illinois (hybrid); Hybrid remote in Manchester, PA 17345.
The Opportunity
Lives International is seeking an experienced and motivated Regional Sales Manager to grow the business in the United States. This consultative, technically oriented role targets pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical-device, and life-sciences customers. The successful candidate will manage existing accounts while actively developing new opportunities across the assigned territory, collaborating with validation, engineering, quality, calibration, manufacturing, and procurement teams to understand applications and propose suitable technical solutions.
Application
Please submit your resume together with a brief description of your relevant sales experience, the territories you have managed, and the types of technical or life-sciences products you have sold.
Pay
USD 80,000 - 100,000 per year
Education
Master's degree (Preferred)
Experience
Technical sales in pharma and biotech: 5 years (Preferred)
Willingness to Travel
75% (Preferred)
Work Location
Hybrid remote in Manchester, PA 17345