Sartorius

Principal Solution Sales Specialist

Sartorius$120K — $150K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

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
  • Demonstrated success in winning high-value, complex, competitive opportunities
  • Outstanding expertise in workflow design, regulatory considerations, and application optimization
  • Exceptional communication, consultative selling, and cross-functional collaboration skills
  • Proficiency in CRM systems and strong documentation discipline
  • Willingness to travel >50% for customer engagements

Responsibilities

  • Identify and pursue high-value strategic opportunities across key markets
  • Design end-to-end workflows influencing customer decision-making
  • Lead deal shaping by crafting compelling value-creation narratives
  • Define technical and functional requirements to guide commercial strategies
  • Integrate the entire product portfolio into comprehensive manufacturing solutions
  • Identify trends and signals to influence product strategy and market position
  • Drive early adoption of solutions and resolve escalated technical challenges

Benefits

  • Personal and professional development through mentoring and leadership programs
  • Work-life balance with paid vacation, flexible schedules, and community service days
  • Comprehensive onboarding with a virtual platform
  • Supportive and collaborative workplace culture
  • Wide health and well-being support options including medical, dental, and wellness programs
  • Work in smart buildings equipped with the latest technology
  • Generous retirement savings plan with company match
  • Flexible spending accounts for healthcare and dependent care costs
  • Company-paid basic life insurance and additional optional benefits like legal services and critical illness insurance
Full Job Description
Sartorius is seeking a Principal Process Solutions Sales Consultant with deep expertise in bioprocessing and project leadership to drive complex, high impact customer collaborations across the biopharmaceutical industry. This field-based role, will deliver end-to-end bioprocess solutions that shape market direction and support long-term strategic partnerships. This position offers the opportunity to influence complex biopharmaceutical workflows, create measurable customer impact, and accelerate portfolio growth in close collaboration with the Commercial Sales Team.

Grow with Us - Your 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 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
  • Combine the entire portfolio to create fully integrated solutions for manufacturing processes of current and future modalities of biopharmaceuticals.
  • Shape the market and the portfolio by identifying trends, innovation points, and customer-driven 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.


What Will Convince Us

  • 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
  • Exceptional communication, consultative selling, and cross-functional 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
  • You identify 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: 401k (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

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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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