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Job title: Sales Manager

Location: Southampton, U.K.

The Role: working as part of the management team the role involves building and maintaining the sales channels for the Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) Klarite product line. It is envisaged that the Klarite product will be sold through distributors and agents throughout the world so experience of consumable sales into the analytical chemistry market is seen as essential. Due to the nature of the position extensive international travel will be required. Additional responsibilities include participation at trade shows and direct sales management of house accounts.

This position involves the ability to operate within a matrix structure and the ability to interact and communicate effectively with other groups including: engineering; manufacturing and finance. This person must have the ability to work directly and effectively with distributors, customers, technical staff and management. Excellent interpersonal and communications skills are a must for this position. He or she should have a good understanding of the use of Raman instruments (and preferably SERS) and the application to chemical, biochemical and biological analysis.

The ideal candidate will be self-motivated team player with problem solving skills and knowledge of the analytical techniques market.

Minimum requirements: A degree and at least 5 years relevant experience in sales, sales channel management and setting up distribution networks.

About Mesophotonics
Mesophotonics Ltd was established in July 2001 to develop and commercialise planar photonic crystal technology. The company is a spin-out from the University of Southampton where a multi-disciplinary team have been conducting research in the area of photonic crystals and photonics band gaps since 1994. Mesophotonics completed its first round financing in July 2001 by securing £2.8 million from BTG. Second round funding of £5.5 million was completed in December 2003. Quester led the investment with participating investors Auriga Partners (Paris), NIF Ventures Co. Ltd (Tokyo) and existing investor BTG.

Mesophotonics Ltd offers a competitive compensation package including stock options.

In 2005 Mesophotonics introduced the Klarite series of products. Klarite SERS substrates, allow the unique Raman fingerprint present in all molecules to be easily and repeatedly identified. Klarite substrates enable faster, higher accuracy detection of biological and chemical samples at lower detection limits for a wide range of markets including homeland security, forensics, environmental monitoring, medical diagnostics and drug discovery. Previous SERS substrates have been plagued by 100% signal variations and by hot spots where only small areas of the total device showed amplified Raman signals. By providing a uniform patterned surface Klarite slides provide control of the Raman process giving consistent SERS signals from anywhere on the active surface. The very high signal levels achieved also make Raman spectra as easy to obtain as fluorescence spectra and offer significantly lower detection limits for many molecules. Klarite substrates are completely compatible with existing micro-Raman instruments. However, the SERS signals that are generated from Klarite substrates are many orders of magnitude more intense than traditional Raman signals and enable detection with low sensitivity detectors and low power lasers. This will open the door to the development of low cost Raman detection systems compatible with volume OEM applications.

Contact Information: Send Resume to Jilly Searle, Office Manager, Mesophotonics Ltd, 2 Venture Road, Chilworth Science Park, Southampton, SO16 7NP, or via email to info@mesophotonics.com

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