Sales Intern – Student (M/W/Div)

For 70 years, Charles River employees have worked together to assist in the discovery, development and safe manufacture of new drug therapies. When you join our family, you will have a significant impact on the health and well-being of people across the globe. Whether your background is in life sciences, finance, IT, sales or another area, your skills will play an important role in the work we perform. In return, we’ll help you build a career that you can feel passionate about.

The Sales Intern is responsible for supporting Microbial Solutions sales. Will supports the sales process for specific products, services, accounts and/or sales opportunities via phone and e-mail. This individual works closely with the Microbial Solutions Commercial team to meet and exceed sales quota.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assist with territory opportunities and product lifecycle management.
• Assist in maintaining a CRM database via updates to sales opportunities, sales stages, marketing statuses, and customer intelligence data.
• Provide pricing, create and submit individualized quotes and support price renewal price process in region.
• Help develop client relationships and retain existing accounts.
• Learn and apply sales techniques.
• Analyze sales performance data to drive improvements and change.
• Update sales documents and sales records, as needed.
• Qualify new accounts per Account Manager request.
• Work with multiple departments on special projects, as needed.
• Collect and analyze data to identify business/industry trends.
• Share customer problems/concerns with relevant departments for quality resolution.
• Work collaboratively with Marketing to drive product promotions and provide feedback on ROI.
• Perform all other related duties as assigned.

Education: Currently enrolled in a university program, preferably to obtain a degree in Sales, Marketing or related discipline.

Experience:

• Experience with Microsoft Office products (Excel, Word, PPT).
• Salesforce experience preferred but not required.
• An equivalent combination of education and experience may be accepted as a satisfactory substitute for the specific education and experience listed above.

Languages: English / German / Dutch

About Microbial Solutions

Our Microbial Solutions business group has a comprehensive portfolio of endotoxin testing, microbial detection and microbial identification products and services is unlike any other, and has been purposefully designed to meet the complex and ever-changing needs of the industry. We help clients to ensure product safety and quality with easy-to-use yet robust testing solutions that satisfy regulatory requirements, support critical decision making and improve operational efficiencies.

About Charles River

Charles River is an early-stage contract research organization (CRO). We have built upon our foundation of laboratory animal medicine and science to develop a diverse portfolio of discovery and safety assessment services, both Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and non-GLP, to support clients from target identification through preclinical development. Charles River also provides a suite of products and services to support our clients’ clinical laboratory testing needs and manufacturing activities. Utilizing this broad portfolio of products and services enables our clients to create a more flexible drug development model, which reduces their costs, enhances their productivity and effectiveness to increase speed to market.

With over 17,000 employees within 90 facilities in 20 countries around the globe, we are strategically positioned to coordinate worldwide resources and apply multidisciplinary perspectives in resolving our client’s unique challenges. Our client base includes global pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, government agencies and hospitals and academic institutions around the world. And in 2019, revenue increased to $2.62 billion.

At Charles River, we are passionate about our role in improving the quality of people’s lives. Our mission, our excellent science and our strong sense of purpose guide us in all that we do, and we approach each day with the knowledge that our work helps to improve the health and well-being of many across the globe. We have proudly supported the development of ~85% of the drugs approved by the FDA in 2019.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Charles River Laboratories is an Equal Opportunity Employer – M/F/Disabled/Vet.

If you are interested in applying to Charles River Laboratories and need special assistance or an accommodation due to a disability to complete any forms or to otherwise participate in the resume submission process, please contact a member of our Human Resources team by sending an e-mail message to [email protected]. This contact is for accommodation requests for individuals with disabilities only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

For more information, please visit www.criver.com.