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Technical Sales Specialist (Gene Therapy) - Maryland, MD

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Master’s degree in Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Engineering or related field
  • 3+ years of technical sales, applications support, or pre‑sales experience
  • Demonstrated hunter mindset with proven ability to identify, advance, and win new opportunities
  • Strong hands‑on technical capability, including demos, trials, and customer evaluations

Responsibilities

  • Identify, reach, and engage prospective customers for new business opportunities
  • Plan, execute, and manage technical demos and trials
  • Drive deal progression by framing solution fit and addressing technical objections
  • Deliver pre‑ and post‑sales technical support to secure adoption and generate repeat revenue

Key facts

Other skills

  • Consultative Approaches
  • Teamwork
  • 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

Sartorius has a remote-based position for a Technical Sales Specialist (Gene Therapy) in the Maryland area. In this role you will pursue and convert new business through hands‑on technical selling, running demos and trials that directly drive revenue and product adoption within a defined portfolio, as well as handing over newly won accounts for long‑term development in collaboration with Central Sales.

Remote-based role covering the Maryland Area, the ideal candidate must live in Maryland.

What You Will Accomplish Together with Us:

  • Identify, reach, and engage prospective customers, including new logo and whitespace opportunity generation in collaboration with Central Sales, to generate and qualify new business opportunities through proactive technical hunting, ensuring structured communication with Central Sales for subsequent account management where applicable.
  • Plan, execute, and manage technical demos and trials to validate customer fit and accelerate adoption.
  • Drive deal progression by framing solution fit, quantifying customer impact, and addressing technical objections to increase win rate through technical selling and value positioning, promoting the defined product and service portfolio to demonstrate technical fit with customer requirements.
  • Shape customer proposals and commercial offers in collaboration with Central Sales by providing critical technical inputs that impact deal closure.
  • Deliver pre‑ and post‑sales technical support to secure adoption and generate repeat revenue, ensuring a smooth transition to Central Sales once adoption is secured, working in coordination with established technical support functions.
  • Capture and share actionable Voice-of-Customer insights (user needs, feedback, competitive signals) to influence assigned product portfolio and enhance sales enablement approaches, sharing insights systematically with Central Sales for integration into account plans.

What Will Convince Us:

  • Master’s degree in Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Engineering or related field, or equivalent demonstrated professional experience.
  • 3+ years of technical sales, applications support, or pre‑sales experience in a scientific or technical environment.
  • Demonstrated hunter mindset with proven ability to identify, advance, and win new opportunities.
  • Strong hands‑on technical capability, including demos, trials, and customer evaluations.
  • Excellent consultative communication skills, able to articulate technical and commercial value to diverse 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.
  • Identification with our core values: Sustainability, Openness, Enjoyment

What We Offer

As a growing global life science company, with our stock listed on the German DAX and TecDAX , Sartorius offers a wide range of benefits:
Personal and Professional Development: Mentoring, leadership programs, internal seminar offerings
Worklife Balance: Paid vacation, sick time, corporate holidays and community service day; as well as flexible work schedules
Making an Impact Right from the Start: Comprehensive onboarding, including a virtual online platform
Welcoming Culture: Mutual support, team spirit and international collaboration; communities on numerous topics such as “Coaching”, “Agile Working” and a “Businesswomen’s Network”
Health & Well Being: Wide selection of health and well-being support such as a variety of medical plans to choose from, dental, vision, EAP, and other wellness programs.
Intelligent Working Environment: Working in smart buildings with the latest technology and equipment.

Retirement Savings Plan: 401 k (with generous company match)
Flexible Spending: HSA, FSA (dependent care & healthcare spending), Transportation Commuter Account
Company Paid Benefits: Basic Life Insurance, AD&D, EAP, Family Planning & Women’s Health, Health Advocate
Additional/Optional: Supplemental Life Insurance (employee, spouse & dependents), Legal Services, LTD & STD, Critical Illness Insurance, Student Loan Tuition Refinance Service

Sartorius is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status, disability or based on status in any other protected group of class.

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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.

We look forward to receiving your application.

www.sartorius.com/career

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our website, you may request a reasonable accommodation to express interest in a specific opening. You can request reasonable accommodation by e-mail at accommodationrequest@sartorius.com

Sartorius is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability, or based on status in any other protected group of class.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our website, you may request a reasonable accommodation to express interest in a specific opening. You can request reasonable accommodation by e-mail at accommodationrequest@sartorius.com

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. 
www.sartorius.com/careers

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