Sartorius

Application Specialist /Filtration and Microbiology - Central US

Sartorius$85K — $110K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Engineering or related field
  • Minimum 3 years of technical sales or applications support experience
  • Strong hands-on technical capabilities including demos and customer evaluations
  • Excellent consultative communication skills for diverse stakeholders
  • Proficiency in CRM systems and structured sales processes
  • Willingness to travel over 50% of the time
  • Alignment with core company values: Sustainability, Openness, Enjoyment

Responsibilities

  • Identify business opportunities through collaboration with Central Sales
  • Plan and execute technical demos and trials for customer validation
  • Promote and frame product portfolio to increase technical fit and win rates
  • Shape customer proposals with critical technical inputs
  • Deliver pre- and post-sales technical support to secure customer adoption
  • Capture and share Voice-of-Customer insights to enhance sales strategies

Benefits

  • Personal and professional development opportunities including mentoring and leadership programs
  • Flexible work schedules and generous vacation/sick time
  • Comprehensive onboarding process
  • Collaborative and inclusive company culture
  • Variety of health and well-being support including medical, dental, and vision plans
  • 401(k) retirement savings plan with a company match
  • Flexible spending accounts for healthcare and dependent care
  • Basic life insurance and additional optional benefits available
Full Job Description
Join our team as an Application Specialist covering Lab Filtration and Microbiology and play a key role in providing product expertise, application knowledge, and technical support throughout the customer journey. By supporting product positioning, demonstrations, and implementation activities, you will help customers successfully adopt solutions that accelerate scientific progress and contribute to better health for more people. Based within the Central territory, ideally residing in either Chicago, Houston, or Denver, you will work closely with customers, sales teams, and internal stakeholders to ensure successful application outcomes and long-term customer success.

The ideal candidate will reside in either Chicago, Houston, or Denver.

Grow With Us – Your Responsibilities

  • Identify expanding business opportunities through cross selling activities in collaboration with Central Sales, ensuring structured communication for subsequent account management as applicable.

  • Plan, execute, and manage technical demos and trials to validate customer fit and accelerate adoption

  • Drive deal progression by promoting and framing the defined product and service portfolio to demonstrate technical fit with customer requirements, quantifying customer impact, and addressing technical objections to increase win rate through technical selling and value positioning. 

  • 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:

  • Bachelors degree in Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Engineering or related field

  • Minimum 3 years of technical sales, applications support, or customer facing experience in a scientific or technical environment

  • 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

Base salary range: $85,000–$110,000 (depending on experience), plus a sales incentive plan and car allowance.

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

About Sartorius

Sartorius AG is an international pharmaceutical and laboratory equipment supplier, covering the segments of Bioprocess Solutions and Lab Products & Services.
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