Commercial Development Specialist

**Our Mission**
Oxitec’s mission is to save lives and improve livelihoods by developing safe, highly-effective biologically-engineered solutions to control disease-transmitting and crop-destroying insects globally.
To do our work, we leverage our world-class team of scientists, engineers, public health and agricultural experts, entrepreneurs, community engagement experts and others to build safe, targeted, sustainable and highly effective genetically modified insect technologies that can be applied in the fields of public health and food security.
We do our work with a commitment to safety, effectiveness, scientific integrity, and transparency, making Oxitec’s technologies one of the largest self-limiting insect platforms in the world. Oxitec’s technology has been studied and analyzed by independent researchers, academics and independent collaborators for more than a decade, with more than 100 scientific, peer-reviewed papers published on our work. You can find a sample of the growing body of scientific evidence here.

**Our History**
Oxitec was formed in 2002 by Oxford University Innovation and, in 2015, was acquired by U.S.based Intrexon.
Since inception, Oxitec has pioneered work on controlling insects that spread disease and damage crops through world-class genetic engineering and the use of self-limiting gene technology. In the mid and late 2000s, Oxitec successfully deployed genetically engineered insects in select locations in the USA, Caribbean, South America, and has continued to grow these projects, expanding to new regions and countries.
In 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a positive recommendation in support of Oxitec’s self-limiting mosquitoes (OX513A) for a planned pilot in response to the Zika virus outbreak. Oxitec continues to engage with communities around the world that are in need of effective, scalable solutions to combat the dangerous vectors that threaten lives and livelihoods.
Oxitec is a subsidiary of Intrexon Corporation ( NASDAQ: XON), which engineers biology to help solve some of the world’s biggest problems.

About Us
We are a team of passionate individuals from 15 countries, developing ground-breaking biological technologies designed to sustainably, and safely, control insects that transmit diseases and destroy crops. We do this work to improve lives and livelihoods around the world in the face of the growing threats that insects pose to human health and the global food supply.

We are strongly committed to a set of values and principles and foster a culture of trust, respect, creativity, and accountability.

Purpose of the Job
Oxitec Brazil is at the forefront of advancing ground-breaking technologies to save lives and improve livelihoods. To support our rapid growth, we are seeking an experienced, dedicated, and passionate individual to help transition Oxitec’s technologies to commercial markets with new customers, partners, and collaborators.

**Responsibilities**:

- Develop and deliver regular, precise, and high-quality updates and briefings to the company’s senior leadership;
- Build and deliver comprehensive analysis of our commercial roadmaps in Brazil for a pipeline of innovative products for insect control in public health and agriculture;
- Build metrics, performance KPIs and reporting formats, improving these throughout the lifecycle of the product launch;
- Manage commercial contracts, pricing, and sales investments in line with local regulations and guidelines to support the company’s growth;
- Work closely with the communications teams to develop and deliver strong messages for new partners;
- Work closely with the company’s product development and leadership teams to help tailor our products and services to customer’s needs;
- Conduct market research and analysis to identify potential markets and customer needs, both in the public and private markets;
- Communicate clearly with all internal stakeholders including Senior Leadership, R&D, Operations, Marketing and Business Development divisions in Brazil and globally;
- Follow up the product go-to-market process, plan timelines, launch scenarios, pricing and promotions;
- Conduct user studies, interviews, and beta programmes with key clients to gather feedback from early adopters, and deliver high quality, executive level reports;
- Develop a detailed and versatile knowledge of the market; delivering regular analysis of the competitive landscape and innovating USP’s to differentiate our products;
- Create content for presentations, effectively communicating the purpose and benefits of Oxitec products to different audiences;
- Formulate and communicate clearly defined pricing strategies with stakeholders in Business Development, Marketing, and Finance;
- Identify potential risks to new products or sales channels and develop appropriate response strategies;
- Build and maintain excellent working relationships with the Technical/Development team and the Sales team;
- Create sales