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SAGAR SHAH

SALES & MARKETING
Mumbai
SAGAR SHAH

Summary

Sales professional with over 9.6 years of experience in technical sales and business development, mainly in the biopharmaceutical industry, with additional experience in Pharmaceuticals & Nutraceuticals.
Currently working as Category Head, handling global principals and leading strategic sales across India.
Skilled in principal management, business development, technical selling, and teamwork, with a proven record of business growth and strong customer relationships.
Postgraduate from the elite university UDCT/ICT, Mumbai, with solid knowledge of biopharmaceuticals.

Overview

10
years of professional experience
3
Languages

Work History

KP MANISH GLOBAL INGREDIENT PRIVATE LTD

SENIOR PRINCIPAL MANAGEMENT (SALES & MARKETING)
09.2023 - Current

Job overview

  • Led strategic growth across SunResin and JSJ Silica by identifying new market opportunities, building partner networks & driving technical sales in Biopharma, Biosimilars, and Pharmaceuticals.
  • Strengthened supplier relationships through transparent communication and alignment, improving pricing, reducing lead times, and fostering long-term collaboration.

SUNRESIN (Biosimilar & Biopharma)

  • Selling peptide synthesis resins from SunResin, a global leader in this field, used for peptide and oligonucleotide.
  • Working closely with peptide manufacturers and R&D teams on SPPS projects, such as Semaglutide, Tirzepatide, and other peptide APIs.
  • Supported fermentation-based API customers in resin selection from capture to polishing stages.
  • Giving a presentation to clients on biopharmaceuticals, chromatography resin of SUNRESIN, and pushing for lab trials and subsequent commercial orders.
  • Achieved product approvals in 10+ new peptide accounts, contributing to USD 2 million in approvals in the last financial year.
  • Collaborated with SunResin on pricing, portfolio expansion, and competitive positioning.
  • Meeting with formulation scientists for taste-masking resins used as excipients, or drug delivery agents.
  • Acting as a single point of contact for sales, technical discussions, product approvals, pricing, and supply coordination.
  • Mapping biopharma customers to promote biopharma media from SunResin.
  • Planning to onboard new principals for reagent FMOC amino acids, and low-endotoxin amino acids, to expand the peptide product portfolio.
  • Experience in handling long and complex sales cycles in the biopharma and biosimilar domains.
  • Participation in the Purify Conclave and industry-specific exhibitions for lead generation.
  • Doing import and export analysis and product mapping.


JSJ SILICA

  • Worked with formulation teams to achieve product approvals for silica applications.
  • Successfully developed and converted over 20 tons of new business within one year through customer education and strategic targeting.

Ipsum Lifesciences LLP

Deputy Manager Sales & Marketing
07.2018 - 07.2023

Job overview

  • National Level Key Account Manager across Pan-India for Products " Ion exchange resin, Bulk media- Silica & Polystyrene Base material, HPLC columns, Process technology, Hardware Columns"
  • Manages Team of 4 Sr/Jr Sales Executive, guiding team for Pricing strategy, Lead generation, Technical discussion/support, Monthly business review, Day to day Planning.
  • Customer Category: Interacting with Senior Scientist, Process Development Team, Commercial Heads and Key Decision makers.
  • Handling Products of Separation science division- Bulk media of Mitsubishi Chemicals,Japan & Sepax technologies USA- used in Biopharmaceuticals, Fermentation based Small Molecule,Purification & Polishing for API, Small Molecule, Peptide, Monoclonal Antibodies & Proteins.
  • Supported Company in Selling products like API products,Vitamin E,Vitamin E acetate, Nutraceuticals products like Phytosterols & Curcumin in B2B domain also.
  • Managed book of business worth $1.75 Million across KEY 25-30 account..

Chromatography World

Senior Account Manager
07.2016 - 06.2018

Job overview

  • Selling HPLC & Gas Chromatography Columns & Consumables of Perkin Elmer, GL Sciences to Pharmaceutical Company in Mumbai.
  • Handling close to 45+ Clients- interacting with Purchase team ,R &D scientist for promoting various products.
  • Collaborating with Mitsubishi Chemicals India Pvt Ltd(MCI) & Mitsubishi Chemicals, Japan and increasing there customer reach for MCC resins for various Purification & Down Stream Processing sectors across India.
  • Closed business deals with new 15 partner businesses to increase company profits by 25%.

Education

Institute Of Chemical Technology(ICT/UDCT)
MUMBAI

Master of Chemical Technology from Bioprocess Technology
07.2014 - 2016.07

University Overview

  • ICT, Mumbai has Elite Status and Centre of Excellence
  • Gate biotechnology Paper 2013, 96.5 Percentile.
  • Topped DBT-ICT internal exam for pursuing Post Graduation Degree.
  • CGPA Score 8.3
  • Master project 1 Year: Fermentative Production of
    Polyhydroxyalkanoates.

MAHATMA GANDHI MISSIONS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING.
MUMBAI

Bachelor of Engineering from B.E BIOTECHNOLOGY
08.2009 - 2013.06

University Overview

  • Mumbai University.
  • Placed in First Class
  • Final Semester project: “RAPID DIAGNOSIS OF MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS :A
    COMPARITIVE EVALUATION OF INHOUSE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION ASSAY USING IS6110 & IS1081.”

SK SOMAIYA COLLAGE OF SCIENCE
MUMBAI

HSC -SCIENCE
2007.08 - 2009.07 (1 education.year_Label & 11 education.months_Label)

Skills

Sales Development

Software

MS OFFICE 365

Interests

Browsing on Quora app, Reading books, Watching movies,

Timeline

SENIOR PRINCIPAL MANAGEMENT (SALES & MARKETING)

KP MANISH GLOBAL INGREDIENT PRIVATE LTD
09.2023 - Current

Deputy Manager Sales & Marketing

Ipsum Lifesciences LLP
07.2018 - 07.2023

Senior Account Manager

Chromatography World
07.2016 - 06.2018

Institute Of Chemical Technology(ICT/UDCT)

Master of Chemical Technology from Bioprocess Technology
07.2014 - 2016.07

MAHATMA GANDHI MISSIONS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING.

Bachelor of Engineering from B.E BIOTECHNOLOGY
08.2009 - 2013.06

SK SOMAIYA COLLAGE OF SCIENCE

HSC -SCIENCE
2007.08 - 2009.07 (1 education.year_Label & 11 education.months_Label)

Languages

ENGLISH
Advanced
HINDI
Advanced
MARATHI
Intermediate

Additional Information

Participating in Exhibition:

CPHI INDIA-2016 to 2022

CPHI INDIA, FI INDIA & VITA FOODS- 2023 t0 2025

CPHI CHINA-2023

PURIFY CONCLAVE-2022,2025

SAGAR SHAHSALES & MARKETING