# Sales and Business Development Representative - Life Sciences

**Company**: TransPerfect
**Location**: Paris
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Sales

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## Description

We are seeking a highly motivated Sales and Business Development Representative to join our team in Paris, focusing on the Life Sciences industry. As a key member of our sales team, you will be responsible for developing prospective clients, fostering and closing new business, and growing existing client relationships.

**Responsibilities:**

- Develop prospective clients through various strategies, including internet sourcing, trade show lists, referrals, and personal investigation

- Foster and close new clients through referrals, cold calling, networking, and other means

- Grow new business from existing clients, working closely with senior leadership to expand current relationships and upsell the TransPerfect portfolio

- Creatively problem solve to improve current new business development strategy

- Negotiate rates and deadlines with prospective and current clients

- Educate prospective and existing clients regarding the translation process, including TransPerfect's rates, justification for turnaround time, and competitors' information

- Liaise with production to ensure that all jobs are handled appropriately and with keen attention to detail

- Consistently follow up with clients to ensure their satisfaction with delivery, quality, and customer service

**Essential skills required:**

- Commit to a high level of integrity and service

- Deliver quality work

- Service focused with a desire to exceed clients' expectations

- Owning your performance and taking responsibility

- Multitask and work with a sense of urgency in a fast-paced environment

- Commit to always treating everyone with the ultimate level of respect

- Work well in a team with people from a variety of different backgrounds and cultures

- Build and maintain strategic relationships with clients and co-workers

- Celebrate diversity and embrace new ideas and differing perspectives

- Be financially responsible and make sound financial decisions

- Take active measures to achieve results and solve problems

**Experience required:**

- Problem-solving mindset

- Strong interpersonal skills with prior experience in a client-facing role

- Strong written and spoken communication skills

- Good analytical skills with attention to detail

- Ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment, work well with people from a variety of different backgrounds and cultures, build strategic relationships with clients and co-workers, work as part of a team, take active measures to solve problems, and commit to a high level of service

- Ongoing legal right to work in France

## Skills

### Required
- problem-solving
- interpersonal skills
- communication skills
- analytical skills
- multitasking

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