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Field Account Manager

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences, Engineering, or related field
  • 3+ years field sales experience in the life science or technical manufacturing industry, managing mid‑size or large accounts
  • Strong commercial acumen with proven negotiation, opportunity management, and account planning skills
  • High proficiency in CRM (SFDC) for pipeline management, forecasting, and data‑driven sales steering

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain strong, multi‑level, long‑term customer relationships to strengthen account engagement, satisfaction, retention and protect recurring revenue
  • Expand Sartorius’ share‑of‑wallet within assigned accounts by actively driving cross‑selling and multi‑product penetration
  • Lead the commercial stages of the sales cycle (proposal, negotiation, commercial closure) for opportunities within assigned accounts
  • Drive adoption of innovative and newly launched products by positioning value, ensuring successful implementation

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Sales
  • Negotiation
  • Business Acumen
  • Communication
  • Teamwork

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

As a Field Account Manager, this field-based role contributes to expanding customer partnerships and accelerating the adoption of innovative life science solutions. Working closely with commercial and technical stakeholders, the position drives revenue growth across an assigned account portfolio in the North Central territory (OH, MI, IN, IL) while supporting long-term customer success. Through a strong focus on account development, solution adoption, and relationship building, this role helps bring Sartorius’ purpose of advancing scientific progress to life.

What you will accomplish together with us:

  • Build and maintain strong, multi‑level, long‑term customer relationships to strengthen account engagement, satisfaction, & retention and protect recurring revenue

  • Expand Sartorius’ share‑of‑wallet within assigned accounts by actively driving cross‑selling and multi‑product penetration in line with account plans and expected portfolio mix to increase revenue per account

  • Lead the commercial stages of the sales cycle (proposal, negotiation, commercial closure) for opportunities within assigned accounts, orchestrating Technical Sales involvement for early‑stage opportunity creation, technical validation & technical closure to increase win rate and solution adoption

  • Identify and develop growth opportunities within assigned accounts, leveraging Technical Sales for technical validation, trials, and solution design to deepen engagement across stakeholders, uncover new internal use cases, and expand adoption of the Sartorius portfolio

  • Drive adoption of innovative and newly launched products by positioning value, ensuring successful implementation, and delivering NPI‑related targets (e.g., adoption rate, conversion from trials) to accelerate time‑to‑revenue

  • Integrate newly won customers into the assigned account base to ensure continuity of relationships and expansion, capturing all new use cases into the account plan to enable systematic account development and prevent value leakage post‑sale

  • Actively use SFDC to maintain pipeline accuracy, documenting all customer interactions, and ensuring accurate forecasting and data‑driven territory steering to support effective prioritization and performance transparency

What will convince us:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences, Engineering, or related field

  • 3+ years field sales experience in the life science or technical manufacturing industry, managing mid‑size or large accounts

  • Bioprocessing, manufacturing, MSAT experience preference

  • Strong commercial acumen with proven negotiation, opportunity management, and account planning skills

  • Confident communicator able to influence diverse decision‑makers and effectively partner with Technical Sales to shape customer solutions

  • High proficiency in CRM (SFDC) for pipeline management, forecasting, and data‑driven sales steering

  • Self‑driven, results‑oriented, and capable of coordinating cross‑functional stakeholders to deliver account outcomes

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

  • Identification with our core values: Sustainability, Openness, Enjoyment

Compensation for this position will be a base salary between $90,00.00 and $120,000.00 plus bonus depending on experience and qualifications. 

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

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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