Job Title: OEM Biopharm Western District Sales ManagerLocation: USA - West CoastWebsite: https://www.wmfts.com/en/Group: https://www.spiraxgroup.com/
When you join Watson-Marlow Fluid TechnologySolutions, a part of the Spirax Group, you will be integrated into acooperative and encouraging team, participate in challenging yet critical work,and experience ongoing growth opportunities to help you achieve your fullpotential. Visit our website to learn more.
This role will focus on:
Territory: West Coast and Midwest (majority in California/Utah)
Desired locations: SOCAL, NORCAL, Salt Lake City and Nevada
Travel: 30-40% field time.
What you'll be doing
- Develop new customers from leads and manage key accounts to grow sales.
- Respond to leads and sell WMFTG products for inclusion in OEM fluid path and equipment projects.
- Quote and negotiate pricing and business agreements.
- Act as liaison between factory and customers for custom engineered products.
- Communicate the value proposition of WMFTG brands to Biopharma, Pharma, and Medical Device markets.
- Monitor multi-year project pipeline from design phase through production.
- Ensure timely follow-up and resolution of technical, pricing, delivery, or quality issues.
- Lead customer experience management, working closely with support teams.
Who you'll be working with
- OEM customers and prospects in the Biopharmaceutical sector.
- Internal teams including engineering, factory operations, and customer support.
- National Sales Manager for strategy alignment.
- Cross-functional colleagues to ensure customer satisfaction and WMFTG brand loyalty.
What you'll need to be successful
Education & Experience
- Bachelor's degree with 3+ years related experience.
- Experience in Life Sciences, particularly Biopharmaceutical or Medical Device.
- OEM sales experience.
Skills
- Proven track record of consultative sales of premium products.
- Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills.
- Ability to manage complex projects and multi-year pipelines.
Preferred
- Engineering or Biological Sciences degree.
- Experience selling single-use products or related consumables in biopharma.
- Knowledge of process engineering, electro-mechanical design, and regulatory systems.
- Familiarity with electro-mechanical components (pumps, valves, motors).
- Understanding of supply chain and production planning.
Physical Demands
• Mobility: This is a remote position that primarily requires sitting at a desk or computer workstation for extended periods, with occasional need to stand or move around to maintain health and well-being. Ability to regularly operate a computer keyboard and mouse.
• Vision and Hearing: Ability to use a computer and read documents. Effective communication skills to interact with colleagues and clients through video conferencing tools.
• Dexterity: Basic hand dexterity for typing and using computer peripherals
Reasonable accommodations will be provided to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
This position offers a salary range of $115,172 - $165,000. Final salary offers are determined by multiple factors, including education, experience, internal equity, geographic location, and the candidate's expertise, and therefore may vary from the range listed. For roles based outside California, the applicable salary range may be lower.
At Watson-Marlow, we believe in taking care of our colleagues. We offer a generous benefits package, including:
- Robust Retirement Plan: Benefit from a guaranteed 5% employer contribution to your 401K, plus an additional 3% employer match, empowering your financial security.
- Comprehensive and Supportive Parental Leave: Experience our inclusive, gender-neutral parental leave policy, offering 16 weeks at 100% pay. Upon your return, enjoy a gradual transition with a unique 80% work schedule while still receiving 100% of your pay for the first 6 months, ensuring a balanced reintegration into the workplace.
- Fertility Assistant Program: Fertility Benefits to support you on your journey to building a family. It may include IVF, genetic testing, and other fertility-related services.
- Generous Time Off: Enjoy ample time off to recharge and attend to life's circumstances with generous vacation and well-being days, 9 observed holidays, 15 caregiver days, and 80 hours of annual sick leave.
- Community Engagement Opportunities: Make a difference with 3 paid volunteer days each year, encouraging you to give back to the community and causes you care about.
- And Many More Benefits: Discover a wide range of additional perks and benefits designed to support your well-being and professional growth. We invite you to explore all the ways we strive to create a fulfilling and rewarding work environment.
Everyone is Included at Spirax Group
We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone's contribution is valued across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique.
We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. Learn more at Our Inclusion Commitments.
CompanyOverview
At Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, we are driven by innovationand are dedicated to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone isempowered to make a difference. As a world leader in manufacturing peristalticpumps and associated fluid path technologies for the life sciences and processindustries, we offer a wide range of products, including tubing, specialisedfilling systems and products for single-use applications.
Watson-Marlow is part of Spirax Group, aFTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group withexpertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions,peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.
Our purpose is to createsustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient,safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role incritical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries asdiverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, PowerGeneration, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, weprovide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used indaily life, from baked beans to mobile phones!
Our inclusive culture and values, unites us, guides our decisions and inspires us everywhere that weoperate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other aswell as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders bycreating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.
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