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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 - 07.2016

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 - 06.2013

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
08.2007 - 07.2009

Skills

Sales Development

Sales negotiation

Strong communications

Problem Solving

Sales Inventory Operations Planning (SIOP)

Challenger Selling

Post Sales Support

Sales strategy development

Technical understanding

Team Player

Budgeting

Supplier Sourcing

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 - 07.2016

MAHATMA GANDHI MISSIONS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING.

Bachelor of Engineering from B.E BIOTECHNOLOGY
08.2009 - 06.2013

SK SOMAIYA COLLAGE OF SCIENCE

HSC -SCIENCE
08.2007 - 07.2009

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