Sales Project Manager Job Description
Sales project manager
provides VWR solutions to customers across the Pharmaceutical/Biotech/Industrial (PBI), Education & Medical Research (E&MR), or Healthcare & Government market segments with a focus on Biotech.
Sales Project Manager Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Develop and implement sales training for new services, services portfolio, services lifecycle
Develop and implement collateral used by sales team to help services sales in a customer situation
Create and lead Services Summits around the global
Work with HW teams for inclusion of services in their sales collaterals
Update and maintain the Sales Enablement POR
Be the single point of contact for Region sales enablement leads
Work with the Portfolio, Category, and Sales teams to define sales enablement deliverables and project plans
Develop and implement sales tools to shorten and/or simplify the sales cycle
Define and lead a regular forum for sales to ensure they are prepared to sell and to listen to feedback on what is needed
Project Manage all aspects of assign projects
Sales Project Manager Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Sales Project Manager
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: PMP, PMI, ITIL, PMO, CSCP, PM, SCRUM, TAA, II, PRINCE
Education for Sales Project Manager
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the sales project manager job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Associate Degree in Engineering, Business, Technical, Education, Marketing, Project Management, Business/Administration, MBA, Biotechnology, Management
Skills for Sales Project Manager
Desired skills for sales project manager include:
Biotech Industries
Microsoft Office software
Customers by working closely with more experienced brand/product managers
European Biotech market is an asset
European languages
Organization's products
Services
Continuous improvement activities
Either project management
More technologies:
Desired experience for sales project manager includes:
Direct and manage project development from beginning to end of the full life cycle of the project
Ability to work directly with senior management and stakeholders to clearly define project scope, objectives, goals, time-lines, resources and key project deliverables
Expert knowledge and experience with a Project Management Tool including critical path scheduling, resource loading and leveling, time reporting, earned value analysis
Working knowledge of industry best practices and standards (e.g., CMM, ITIL (preferred), COBIT, ISO)
Experience using or exposure/knowledge of enterprise Project Portfolio Management methods or systems (e.g., master resource pools, Niku, Clarity, MS Project Server)
University graduated or above majoring in Marketing or Business Administration preferred
Sales Project Manager Examples
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Sales Project Manager Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is looking to fill the role of sales project manager. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for sales project manager
- Manage project plan, process, and tasks throughout delivery and ongoing support
- Able to speak confidently within a Pharmaceutical Sales & Marketing operational environment
- Effective in leading and directing high-performance teams
- Facilitate critical meetings for project kick-off, status reports, and steering committee meetings with senior leadership
- Ability to track project metrics including task completion, budget, issues
- Supervise application build, test, and deployment activities
- Planning and executing of data management activities (e.g., data loads, interfaces, and testing)
- Oversee knowledge transfer activities to Business Development and Operational teams
- Apply project management principles to the ongoing continuous improvement of the department
- Supports the Sales team in the collection and analysis of client data and satisfaction surveys
Qualifications for sales project manager
- Basic financial skills able to understand budget setting and tracking
- Proficient level with PowerPoint, Excel, Brainshark
- Minimum 3+ years Consumer Packaged Goods experience required
- Requires advanced analytical, critical thinking, and problem solving skills great attention to detail
- Strong grasp of project management methodologies and tools
- Develop, own, lead and represent project plans and business intent for all Sales associate focused programs
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Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of sales project manager. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for sales project manager
- Drives product standardization through coordination with sales, supply chain, operations, engineering and customer’s involvement to aid the business in improving accuracy of information and timeliness of costing
- Manage the sales release requirements by timely issuance, accurate information and proper archiving of sales releases
- Coordinate the controls and releases of all sales changes
- Coordinate with engineering, materials, operations and sales the maintenance of the configurator tool to ensure accuracy and timeliness of estimating information
- Demonstrates critical thinking analytical and problem-solving skills
- Possesses subject matter expertise
- Designs with peers innovative solutions (e.g., work plans) that add value and meet current and future business requirements
- Analyzes and interprets market and product trends and performance relative to internal expectations
- Anticipates factors and constraints that may affect timeline, sets project priorities and manages resource needs
- Drives results and recommendations of projects to product teams, sales management and Senior Management in a timely manner
Qualifications for sales project manager
- Demonstrated experience in project management is a must
- Successfully partner with and influence stakeholder groups across the organization (Product, Learning & Development, Underwriting, Sales, Operations)
- Proven track record with managing multiple projects and working cross functionally
- Leverage the SSL /SSC organization to ensure flawless execution of all LBA initiatives
- Minimum 2 years experience working in or supporting Investment and Insurance sales
- Degree in Engineering, Biology, Biotechnology, or Lifesciences equivalent
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Our growing company is looking to fill the role of sales project manager. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for sales project manager
- Focus on developing strong relationships with electrical contractors and engineers in the Miami Export market and the Caribbean
- Actively seek and build relationships with new clients, Electrical Contractors, Engineers, and Distribution, while maintaining existing client’s relationships
- Perform take-off's, budgeting, cost effective proposals, and alternate value engineered proposals, from project plans and specs and negotiate and secure project orders
- Mine construction data (Dodge, Builders Exchange, bid board) to identify new opportunities to bid, key trends in marketplace, and new product needs
- Analyze territorial sales potential and develop sales strategies, utilizing regional commercial operation resources necessary to achieve customer service levels
- Oversees bidding, pricing, product sourcing, vendor negotiations and project management for Enterprise Sales team
- Coordinates with point of contact within business for product selection, pricing, fulfillment strategy, and vendor requirements
- Conducts vendor negotiation to obtain best value
- Ensures compliance with construction schedules of customer
- Ensures accuracy of the daily reporting of business metrics to the customer and oversees daily maintenance of contract price file in accordance with contract agreement
Qualifications for sales project manager
- High attention to detail, self-motivated and extremely organized
- 8+ years of diverse experience as a project team member of which at least four years have been in a leadership position, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
- 2+ years developing and managing detailed project plans with Microsoft Project
- Requires strong analytical, communication, technical teamwork and interpersonal skills
- Demonstrated ability to formally plan, execute, and deliver projects
- Field Automation Software and Deployment experience
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Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a sales project manager. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for sales project manager
- Keep track of drawing schedules in order to ensure a timely release to manufacturing
- Diligently manage ‘change order’ process
- Complete post shipment tasks, such as warranty claims and product returns
- Continually update and maintain order files with all pertinent order information
- Initiate and facilitate team and client meetings as needed
- Follow up and work with distributors to resolve any claims and debit memos
- Focus on developing strong relationships with electrical contractors and engineers in the San Francisco Bay Area
- Maintain smooth and strong communication across all departments by working closely with Sales, FDM's, technical, sampling, marketing, CI, application labs, perfumery & the client
- Leverage resources efficiently & effectively against targeted projects to increase success rates
- Prioritize and manage the flow of daily workload making certain the needs of the client are the top priority
Qualifications for sales project manager
- Ability to translate customer needs into technical/operational requirements
- This person will manage the deployment and support of Pharma sales forces
- Recognizes, analyzes problems and responds with a sense of urgency, using good judgment
- Social media tools preferred (e.g., LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, blogs)
- Has Bachelor Degree and 5+ years relevant work experience
- Proven leadership ability that manifests itself in quickly earning sponsorship and key stakeholder trust
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Job Description Example
Our company is hiring for a sales project manager. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for sales project manager
- Drive all tasks related to internal client meetings
- Work closely (daily interaction) with Princeton Perfumery Labs and other affiliate sites
- Visit client as necessary to build strong relationship
- Handle other administrative tasks as required
- Generating and developing relationships with new and potential customers in the assigned territory
- Developing feasible sales plan and build up comprehensive customer database
- Sales Channel development and management
- Developing, qualifying, following up and closing sales opportunities
- Effectively executing pricing, order following up, payment policy, product claim coordination and relevant sales management rule
- Coordinating and communicating cross-regional project information with sales teams in other geographies
Qualifications for sales project manager
- Demonstrated strong sense of urgency with laser-like focus and command of issues and risks
- Exemplary core project management knowledge and skills and expertise in the use of various project development life cycle methods and tools, such as Agile/Scrum and Waterfall
- Accomplished in and fosters the use of Continuous Improvement (CI) methods and tools
- Informing– is good at establishing clear directions
- Organizing– Can orchestrate multiple activities at once to accomplish a goal
- 2+ years of project management, customer service, inside sales or other related business experience