Field Application Specialist - Separations (NFF, TFF, UF/DF) Bioprocessing (Bay Area)

Location: The person in this role must reside in the Bay Area, California to support customers

Sartorius has an exciting opportunity for a dynamic, self-motivated, professional to help support our customers within the Northwest region for our Separation Technology products. In this remote position, the incumbent will play a key role as a trusted business partner to our customers.  This is an exciting opportunity to join a global company known for a great culture, innovative products and stability. If interested, please read on.

The Field Application Specialist will be responsible for ensuring the successful application, implementation, qualification, and use of Sartorius’ Separation technologies portfolio by providing overall product expertise, application knowledge, and technical support throughout each step of the customer process. This role supports the Sales process through product positioning, presentations, demonstrations, and trials, primarily for customers in Northern California and at times the Pacific Northwest region.

What will accomplish

• Support the Sales organization on existing products through product presentations, demonstrations, application studies, and products in close collaboration with product management through beta sites testing and demonstrations.

• Support Sales in the customer process, URS analysis and technical response

• Be responsible for the assigned product line (Separations) to support sales target achievement and grow market share in defined Region

• Conduct product trials and demos to achieve intended results and create trial reports for customers, sales and application teams.

• Support the Quality Department in the quality complaint process by troubleshooting and analyzing customer processes for better investigation and resolution.

• Report on competitor product implementation & presence within the territory and feedback information to the Application Specialist Team and Management.

What will convince:

• Bachelor's degree in biological engineering, biotechnology or other life sciences related field.

• Demonstrate 3+ years of experience in process development, MSAT, bioprocessing in biotechnology, biopharmaceutical industry or CDMO environment or field experience in a similar role

• Extensive experience in TFF, UF/DF, NFF, Viral Filtration and Clarification products with optimization and process scaling success.

• Demonstrate the ability to present data, findings and recommendations to customers

• Strong customer orientation with excellent communication and presentation skills

• Team player, able to interact with people across different functions, while being comfortable working independently

• Highly organized and capable of planning own schedule

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

• Occasional overnight travel will be required to support customers / sales, to attend organizational meetings and training will be required (~40%). This travel requirement is subject to change based on customer and internal business need.

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. 
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