Principal Application Specialist

Role Summary

The Principal Application Specialist is a field-based, top‑tier technical sales hunter who wins high‑value, strategically critical opportunities through consultative workflow design, regulatory and process influence, and innovation‑driven differentiation, significantly shaping market direction and advancing portfolio penetration in close collaboration with Central Sales.

Grow with Us - Your Responsibilities

Identify,pursueand winhigh‑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 narrativesthat maximize our win rate

Guide commercial strategy with Central Sales by defining technical and functional requirements thatdeterminesolution configuration, pricing logic, and deal construct forstrategicopportunities

Shape the market and theportfolio byidentifyingtrends, 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, BusinessUnitstakeholders (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, without assuming commercial ownership

• What Will Convince Us
• Master’s degree in Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Engineering, or related field;PhDis a major plus
• 7+ years of senior technical sales, workflow consulting, or scientific solution selling

Proven hunterwhodemonstratessuccess winning high‑value, complex, and competitive opportunitieswithexceptionaltechnical depth acrossthe entireBusiness Unitproduct portfolio

• Outstandingexpertisein workflow design, regulatory and process considerations, and advanced application optimization
• Exceptional communication,consultative selling, and cross‑functional collaboration skillsacross executive, technical, and operational stakeholders
• Proficiencyin 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

Benefits

• 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
• 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.
• Please view equal employment opportunity posters provided by OFCCP here.
• 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 .

Additional Information

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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

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.