Senior Sales Manager – Marketing Solutions, Life Sciences

ResearchGate

Senior Sales Manager focused on growing enterprise life science accounts through digital advertising solutions. Collaborating with a high-performing team to drive sales and revenue growth in the UK.

Posted 6/1/2026full-time🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Close net-new and expansion digital advertising business across a dedicated portfolio of pharma, biotech, and scientific brands.
Run structured, deeply analytical discovery sessions to understand brand objectives and build tailored, insight-led digital media and content strategy proposals.
Confidently pitch to and steer deals through complex brand teams, digital marketing leads, agency partners, and procurement.
Build and execute long-term account roadmaps to scale our share of wallet and maximize ad spend within key organizations.
Partner closely with Account Management and Ad Ops to ensure ad campaigns perform flawlessly against client KPIs, securing renewals and long-term retention.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of closing experience in B2B digital advertising, ad-tech, digital media sales, or publisher solutions.
Deep understanding of digital advertising metrics (CPM, CTR, lead generation, brand awareness) and how life science marketers allocate budgets.
Experience selling into pharma, biotech, or life sciences—or managing these verticals from an ad agency perspective—is a strong plus.
A proactive hunter mindset. You are comfortable prospecting, mapping out marketing departments, and building your own pipeline without relying on inbound leads.
Strong commercial instinct. You know how to qualify rigorously, multi-thread within complex marketing organizations, and close high-value ad contracts

Benefits

Comp & perks

An International, High-Performing Culture: Work alongside a diverse, driven team scaling a world-class platform.
ResearchGate is an equal opportunity employer We encourage people from all backgrounds and life experiences to apply with us and help us change the world of science. We commit to impartial and inclusive hiring processes.

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Hard Skills & Tools

B2B digital advertisingad-techdigital media salesdigital advertising metricsCPMCTRlead generationbrand awarenessaccount managementad operations

Soft Skills

analytical skillscommunication skillsnegotiation skillsproactive mindsetcommercial instinctrelationship buildingstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingpresentation skillspipeline management