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Southern And East Africa

South Africa

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Sub -Sahara Africa, English Africa

Johannesburg

Sales specialist for Capillary and Ion Torrent Sequencing portfolio at Life Technologies.• Achieve sales targets, both quarterly and annually. • Development of new, sales opportunities within the territory to meet or exceed plan.• Strategic market analyses and business planning.• Specific focus on assigned set of big revenue accounts.• Ensures that all necessary resources needed are used efficiently and effectively in order to close sales in favour of the Company.• Maintain and develop customer relationship on the short and long term. • Focus on the strategic development of key accounts by implementing and updating Account Planning (cross-functions).• Monitor and align small accounts growth.• Gathers, analyses and delivers information from the field to allow the company to develop strategies and products appropriate to the market. Information does include forecasting and lost order reporting as well as competitive information.• Provides direct information on client needs to market and design together account specific promotion, seminars and exhibitions to support strategic goals on a tactical basis.• Participate actively in local networks of service, support, customer services, marketing and finance to maximize area performance.• Update and maintain the CRM (Siebel) tool to ensure full transparency of customer information across the organisation.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Introductory and advanced training courses presented in Real-time PCR, Sanger seqeuncing and next generation sequencing.

Provided technical support for flow cytometry analysis and data interpretation. Protocol optimization and development, focussing specifically on HIV projects.Duties included:User and instrument management Budgeting and management of funds Protocol optimization and development Training of pre-grad and post-grad students Troubleshooting Report writing Upkeep of databases and sample storage Lab safety and waste disposal Stock taking and acquisition Budgeting Supervision of Honors Student Project Proposal writing and review Project Planning

Master'S Degree (Cum Laude), Molecular Biology

Graduated MSc Microbiology Cum Laude at University of Pretoria. Reseach focussed on indentification of virus/host protein interaction.

Bsc Hons (Cum Laude), Microbiology, Cum Laude

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Micorbiology

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