Hanson Wade Group
Sales Development Representative (Mandarin speaking)
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Love life sciences and sales but don’t see yourself in a lab? Looking to use your degree in a commercial, fast-paced sales role with clear career progression? If you’re target-driven, ambitious and motivated by success, this could be the role for you.
We are currently looking to hire an ambitious and driven Sales Development Representative to join our high-performing Beacon Sales team.
About Hanson Wade
Hanson Wade is a business intelligence organisation specialising in data intelligence and building communities of key opinion leaders in the Life Sciences industry. Our products are considered best-in-class, and with the business experiencing rapid growth and aiming to double in size again over the next five years, it’s an exciting time to join if you’re seeking fast personal development and career progression.
About the Role
The Beacon Sales team sells subscriptions to our market-leading SaaS platform into the biopharmaceutical market. We pride ourselves on deep industry knowledge, consultative sales conversations, and structured sales methodology. This role is the first step in a clearly defined career path into full-cycle sales and account management.
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Key Responsibilities
- You will be responsible for prospecting senior stakeholders across our accounts, including Heads of R&D, Translational Sciences, Clinical and Competitive Intelligence, as well as C-level executives.
- Your goal will be to understand how organisations currently approach competitive and research intelligence, identify the challenges they face, and uncover where Beacon can add value.
- You will be targeted and rewarded on the number of qualified opportunities you generate and how many convert into new customer accounts.
About You
- Degree educated with 1+ year of B2B sales experience
- Genuinely passionate about sales, proud to attract new clients and closing creative deals
- Highly motivated and driven to succeed in the world of business
- Mandarin speaking
- Confident engaging senior-level stakeholders
- Coachable, fast to implement learning to improve skills and knowledge, and eager to develop
- Resilient and commercially minded
- High energy and creative in everything you do
Why Choose Us?
- We offer well-being bonuses such as a personal learning budget, mindfulness sessions in the office, employee assistance programme and well-being champions
- Private health and life insurance
- Hybrid working arrangement – 2 days a week in the office
- A range of different social clubs such as, book club, parents support network, five-a-side, chess club and more…
- 1 extra day of annual leave each year, up to 30 days of annual leave (not including public holidays)
- Access to our Wader Hub benefits platform which include, retail, gym, hospitality, and wellness discounts
- Volunteer day (we offer all our employees the chance to take a day on us to get out there and do some good!)
- Monthly awards and social events (we’re talking sports days, karaoke nights, theatre trips, cooking courses, you name it!)
- Sabbatical options after 2 and 5 years
- Opportunities for professional education sponsorship
- Access to individual career coaching to develop your career from day one
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Salary
- Base salary: £30,000 + commission
- Year One Average Earnings - £36,000
- Year Two Average Earnings - £52,000
- Year Three Average Earnings - £71,000
Start Date
July 2026
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