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Principal Application Specialist FMT APAC

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Master’s degree in Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Engineering, or related field; PhD is a major plus
  • 7+ years of senior technical sales, workflow consulting, or scientific solution selling
  • Proven hunter who demonstrates success winning high‑value, complex, and competitive opportunities with exceptional technical depth across the entire Business Unit product portfolio
  • Outstanding expertise in workflow design, regulatory and process considerations, and advanced application optimization

Responsibilities

  • Identify, pursue and win high‑value, complex strategic opportunities across key markets and accounts by uncovering unmet needs, latent demand, and innovation‑driven use cases
  • Design end‑to‑end workflows and advanced technical concepts that directly influence customer decision pathways, operational processes, and regulatory considerations
  • Lead competitive differentiation and high‑stakes deal shaping by synthesizing deep technical, application, and market insights to construct compelling value‑creation narratives
  • Guide commercial strategy with Central Sales by defining technical and functional requirements that determine solution configuration, pricing logic, and deal construct for strategic opportunities

Key facts

Other skills

  • Innovation
  • Communication
  • Collaboration
  • Problem Solving

About the company

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Sartorius

Biotechnology

Sartorius is a leading international partner of life sciences research and biopharmaceutical manufacturing. We help our customers #SimplifyProgress from drug discovery to manufacturing so that more people can have access to better medicine. With this, we are #PartOfTheSolution in the fight against diseases worldwide. With innovative laboratory instruments and consumables, the our Lab Products & Services division focuses on laboratories performing research and quality control at pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies as well as academic research institutes. The Bioprocess Solutions division, with its broad product portfolio focusing on single-use solutions, helps customers manufacture biotech medications, vaccines, and cell and gene therapies safely, rapidly, and economically. Based in Göttingen, Germany, Sartorius also has a strong global reach with around 60 production and sales sites worldwide. We regularly expand our portfolio through the acquisition of complementary technologies. In 2023, Sartorius generated sales revenue of around 3.4 billion euros. Currently, around 14,600 employees from around 110 nations are working for customers around the globe. Join our team, partner or collaborate with us.

Company details

Company typeLarge
IndustryBiotechnology
Company size10001

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Job description

The Principal Technical Sales Specialist is a field-based, top‑tier technical sales hunter who wins high‑value, strategically critical opportunities through consultative workflow design, regulatory and process influence, and innovation‑driven differentiation, significantly shaping market direction and advancing portfolio penetration in close collaboration with Central Sales.   

Main responsibilities & Tasks:

  • Identify, pursue and win highvalue, complex strategic opportunities across key markets and accounts by uncovering unmet needs, latent demand, and innovationdriven use cases 

  • Design endtoend workflows and advanced technical concepts that directly influence customer decision pathways, operational processes, and regulatory considerations 

  • Lead competitive differentiation and highstakes deal shaping by synthesizing deep technical, application, and market insights to construct compelling valuecreation narratives that maximize our win rate 

  • Guide commercial strategy with Central Sales by defining technical and functional requirements that determine solution configuration, pricing logic, and deal construct for strategic opportunities 

  • Shape the market and the portfolio by identifying trends, innovation points, and customerdriven signals that influence product strategy, roadmap decisions, and market positioning 

  • Drive early adoption and lighthouse success by embedding solutions into critical workflows, resolving escalated technical barriers, and enabling a seamless handover to Central Sales for scaling 

  • Provide technical input to Central Sales, Business Unit stakeholders (e.g. PM, other BU Tech Sales roles) and Legal on the technical sections of contract terms and conditions to ensure technical feasibility, clear scope definition, reduced delivery risk, and alignment with customer workflows, without assuming commercial ownership

Qualifications & skills:

  • Master’s degree in Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Engineering, or related field; PhD is a major plus 

  • 7+ years of senior technical sales, workflow consulting, or scientific solution selling 

  • Proven hunter who demonstrates success winning highvalue, complex, and competitive opportunities with exceptional technical depth across the entire Business Unit product portfolio 

  • Outstanding expertise in workflow design, regulatory and process considerations, and advanced application optimization 

  • Exceptional communication, consultative selling, and crossfunctional collaboration skills across executive, technical, and operational stakeholders 

  • Proficiency in CRM systems and structured sales processes, with strong documentation discipline 

  • Willing to travel >50% as this role is heavily focused on external customers

About Sartorius 

Sartorius is part of the solution in the fight against cancer, dementia, and many other diseases. Our technologies help translate scientific discoveries into real-world medicine faster, so that new therapeutics can reach patients worldwide. 

We look for ambitious team players and creative minds, who want to contribute to this goal and advance their careers in a dynamic global environment.

Join our global team and become part of the solution. We are looking forward to receiving your application. 
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