Business Development Executive

Since 2014, Morressier has been helping a growing number of scientific and academic societies and publishers harness the power and scalability of the digital world to make scientific research more accessible. We facilitate the connecting of the thinkers and the curious, the inquisitive amongst us, to discover, absorb and collaborate on research. We enable research across our platform from peer review workflows, virtual and hybrid conferencing, research libraries and integrity checks.

We are looking for a highly motivated Business Development Executive to join our growth team. Working with the sales leadership team, you’ll be responsible for helping us develop relationships with some of the world's leading scientific societies, institutions and life science businesses.

This is a hands-on position with the primary objective to lead on lead generation, pipeline development and driving the initial sales process. We’re looking for a highly motivated individual who is able to work autonomously with ambition to grow and develop.

Responsibilities:

• Being responsible for ensuring a continuous flow of discovery meetings for our sales leadership

• Proactively developing outbound strategies, working in conjunction with Marketing on campaigns

• The ability to work autonomously without supervision to develop a healthy pipeline of prospects

• Using your communication skills and experience to develop and deliver amazing verbal and written sales outreaches / collateral

• Network through our business and clients to understand the daily value we’re adding to our partners to inform sales messages

• Live our values and execute the sales processes in alignment with our mission

Benefits:

• Competitive package, performance bonuses and share options

• Significant opportunity for career progression

• Flexible working hours

• Working at the heart of a passionate, impact-driven team from around the world

• A chance to do meaningful work and further our vision of accelerating scientific breakthroughs and global innovation

Requirements:

• Experience of working within a similar sales or business development role

• Experience in a startup or scaleup is advantageous

• Motivated by exceeding targets

• Understand how to build, cultivate and convert a sales funnel

• You’re exceptional at building relationships internally and externally, especially with sales and marketing teams.

• Ability to work without daily monitoring & autonomously

• The ability to prospect across EU, UK & US time zones when required

• Ambitious to grow and develop