Business Development Manager - Life Sciences

SpotMe

$150K — $190K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Proven track record in sales or business development roles, particularly in industry events.
  • Strong organizational skills to manage multiple event logistics simultaneously.
  • Ability to craft personalized communication for diverse audiences.
  • Experience using CRM or sales tracking tools effectively.
  • Familiarity with medical or industry-specific knowledge is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Work industry events by setting up target lists and staffing booths at trade shows.
  • Conduct personalized outbound communication to engage webinar and event attendees.
  • Execute first meetings with a compelling presentation and strategic follow-up.
  • Collaborate with senior sales staff to maintain deal momentum and close opportunities.
  • Track and analyze event attendance and sales performance metrics.

Benefits

  • Remote work flexibility near major hub airports.
  • Continuous coaching and feedback to enhance sales skills.
  • Collaborative team environment with opportunities for rapid career growth.
Full Job Description
What you will do:
  • [35%] Work industry events: build target lists from attendee data before each event, staff the booth at leadership's speaking events, prospect conventions as a participant (first alongside colleagues, then solo), and follow up with every named contact with relevant messaging.
  • [20%] Run personalized outbound to webinar audiences and industry event attendee lists, turning warm names into booked first meetings. No mass sequences; every message is yours and very specific.
  • [20%] Run first meetings: your three-slide story, sharp discovery questions, and a crisp follow-up that gets forwarded internally.
  • [25%] Progress opportunities with senior support: bring in a senior seller, our solutions team or our leadership team at the right moment, keep every deal moving in an open deal channel, and co-sell through scoping and close.

What we need from you:

In your first month, you will:
  • Join our leadership team at live industry events: staff the booth at tradeshows and walk congresses with them.
  • Master our core sales plays: rehearse them, listen to past winning calls, and run mock first meetings that convince the team you can do it alone.
  • Start outbound on your first event attendee list and webinar audience, and book your first attended meetings.

In your first 3 months, you will:
  • Have 30+ attended first meetings on the board, with a 70%-plus show rate.
  • Staff your first medical convention solo, with a pre-event target list, a floor contact log, and 100% follow-up.
  • Convert each webinar cycle into at least 2 attended meetings.
  • Have your first opportunities in discovery with a senior co-seller attached.

By month 6, you will have closed your first new US logo, co-sold with a senior colleague (for which you will get 100% quota retirement), and earned a clear conversation about your lane: toward closing bigger deals or leading meeting generation as we scale the team.

What you need to be great at:
  • Speed and consistency despite ambiguity: following up same day, never dropping a ball, staying creative when the playbook runs out.
  • Curiosity about the product and the customer: you ask why a customer runs things the way they do, you go into the layers underneath.
  • Nobody expects you to become a sales engineer, but if your answer to every product question is 'let me loop someone in,' buyers lose interest and the someone loses patience.
  • In-person presence: you are at your best on a floor, at a booth, in a hallway conversation, and you want to travel to make that happen (expect to hop on a plane every 2-3 weeks).
  • Taking feedback fast: we coach constantly; what we correct on Monday shows up in your work on Tuesday.
  • Working with support rather than an army: you handle what you can and escalate deliberately.
  • Writing that sells: short, specific, personal messages that get replies.

What we are most curious about:
  • Tell us about events or trade shows you have worked on: what you did before, on, and after the floor, and what it produced, with real numbers.
  • Walk us through a product you sold and what sat underneath it: how it worked, why customers chose it, what its limits were.
  • What are 2 or 3 outreach tactics that reliably got you replies and meetings, and how did you know they worked?
  • Tell us about the last piece of feedback that changed how you work, and what changed.

Compensation: 150,000 to 190,000 USD on-target earnings (60% base, 40% variable), with guaranteed variable during ramp.

US-based, remote, near a major hub airport.

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