Director of Sales and Business Development

Toxys is an innovative Dutch biotech company that develops unique in vitro laboratory tests for the safety assessment of novel medicines, chemicals, cosmetics and food. Toxys offers its disruptive and proprietary technology as a service, as test kit and as a licensed technology to its clients. Toxys developed and offers the unique ToxTracker®, ReproTracker® and ToxProfiler assays. The assays accurately predict toxicity in human and can provide mechanistic insight into the toxic mechanisms of chemicals.

Toxys is highly valued for its scientific expertise, high quality results and responsiveness. The mission of the company is to strengthen its position as global leading expert in mechanistic in vitro chemical safety assessment by developing and implementing New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) that can ultimately be an alternative to animal testing. Toxys is well recognized in the field and is working with the top 10 pharma companies, as well as the major companies in the (agro)chemical, cosmetics, food and consumer goods industry.

We are looking for an enthusiastic team player with experience in sales and in managing a sales team. As scientific content plays an important role in our work. Someone with a background in Life Sciences and preferable experience in toxicology.

You will support the sales team, lead sales team meetings, but also actively contribute to the sales.

Your tasks will include identification of new leads, cold calling, relationship building and account management.

You will help enhance the sales of our products with your understanding of the typical applications in the market and help draft relevant marketing materials to highlight the applications.

You will work in an ambitious and growing (international) team and help manage and guide the team.

You will have a diverse set of tasks and get the possibility to make an impact.  

We are searching for someone who shares our ambition and joy to accelerate the development and growth of Toxys.

•    Master degree or PhD in Life Sciences

•    Experience in Business Development/Sales in a service-based company

•    A background in toxicology and affinity with NAMs is strongly preferred

•    Management and team lead skills

•    Excellent communication and social skills

•    Fluent in written and spoken English 

If you want to impress us, send a short video to introduce yourself and explain what you can contribute to the growth of Toxys.

We offer an innovative working environment in an ambitious scale-up company. Selected candidate will be offered a competitive salary and the opportunity to play an important role in a growing company. If you are enthusiastic, please send your application to: jobs@toxys.com.  

In our approach to the market, we are focused on exploring the fit with our partner, rather than pushing our technology. We do this with fun and team spirit but always based on excellent science. We believe and have seen that our assays can provide value, they have been used in regulatory files on multiple occasions. If you are enthusiastic to contribute to the growth of Toxys and supporting animal free toxicology solutions, please consider joining us. 

Please respond before May 2, 2026