Research Sales Manager - Finland

Research Sales Manager – Finland

Role: Research Sales Manager

Location: Espoo, Finland

Contract: Full time, Permanent

Alimetrics Research Oy is a 20-year-old Finnish contract research company providing services for the industry and academia worldwide. From 2022 onwards Alimetrics Research has been part of Associated British Foods. We employ 17 specialists, and our core scientific focus is in the exploration and monitoring of gastrointestinal health indicators for animals.

Currently our most important client category is companies developing health-promoting feed ingredients for production animals. In our typical assignments we screen for novel products with our proprietary laboratory models, study the modes of action of products, explore microbiological and immunological parameters connected to health, and help our clients to apply scientific information to their product development and marketing.

Some key responsibilities will include:

Working closely with the Research and Animal Science team to sell Alimetrics´ research and services, and participate in client management, development of project protocols, pricing strategies, quotation management, and negotiation of contract agreements. In your role you will also participate in scientific reporting to customers.

You would be working as immunology expert in a team with microbiologists, molecular biologists, and animal nutritionists; we always meet the challenges of our clients as a multidisciplinary team.

Skills and Experience

• We are now looking for a critical thinking and professional PhD in natural sciences or veterinary degree.
• Extensive scientific knowledge in immunology and animal gut health
• Experience / interest in commercial role with business development, sales or marketing
• Experience on laboratory methods
• Experience in animal sciences is essential.
• Most of our clients are from outside Finland and English is our official reporting language. Therefore, fluent written and spoken English is essential.

About the Company

We’re looking for trail-blazers, non-conformists, innovators.

When you join us, you\\\\\\\’ll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you – from day one.

About us

We’re AB Vista an animal nutrition technology company offering pioneering products and technical services to the global animal feed industry. We’re part of the AB Agri community of leading animal nutrition products and services businesses.

We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry. What sets us apart is how we delight our customers – and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture.

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter – or anything else) just let us know.

Application Notes

We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.

When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.

Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.

Agencies and media sales

AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them