Senior Field Application Specialist

By joining Bio-Techne, you’ll join a company with a powerful and positive purpose of enabling cutting-edge research in Life Sciences and Clinical Diagnostics. Bio-Techne, and all of its brands, provides tools for researchers to further treat and prevent disease worldwide.

Pay Range: £44,600 - £71,480

Placement within the salary range will vary depending on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and internal equity considerations.

Location: EMEA, ideally based in the UK

Travel requirement: 80% of travel across the EMEA region mainly UK, Ireland. Depending on the location, an average of 3 overnights per week is to be expected.

Position Summary

Join our team as a Senior Field Application Specialist where you will be the vital link between cutting-edge spatial biology technology and the scientists who use it. In this dynamic role, you'll combine your scientific expertise with customer-facing skills to train researchers, troubleshoot complex technical challenges, and shape the future of our products through direct customer feedback.

With extensive travel across diverse markets, you'll be instrumental in expanding the impact of innovative life science solutions worldwide.

Key responsibilities:

• Train and support customers in operating the setup, developing their protocols, panels and implementing staining assays properly.
• Attend conferences, symposia and customer meetings and present the product and its applications with a scientific and technical depth.
• Investigate problems at customer sites and resolve them in collaboration with the Technical Support Team, Service Engineers and where needed also with the help of the Product Management and R&D teams.
• Provide scientific applications support in assay development and development of image analysis algorithms.
• Collaborate effectively with the Sales team to plan and execute pre- and post-sales support.
• Develop and maintain a positive relationship with customers via proactive and regular visits or calls.
• Remote employees are required to travel to the Swiss site on request to deliver configured product demos for prospects.
• Identify and keep track of all details and feedback at the customer site to the broader Marketing, Product Management and R&D teams.
• Help defining customer requirements and applications for new products.

Education, Experience, Knowledge and Skills:   

• You have a Master or PhD degree in Biology, Life sciences, Bioengineering, Medicine or in a related field allowing you to easily understand the product’s applications.
• Hands-on experience in in-situ techniques including immunohistochemistry, immunofluorescence, in-situ hybridization, multiomics or microscopy is strongly desired.
• Experience in image analysis spatial data is a strong plus.
• Several years of prior experience in supporting customers in a highly technical field, with demonstrated commitment to customer is highly valued.
• Ability to effectively write technical supporting documents.
• Experience in CRM applications and maintenance is helpful.
• You are independent, confident, and creative in running experiments in a laboratory.
• You are a good listener, you like interacting with people and bring advice and solutions to them and demonstrate good customer service skills.
• You can adapt in a dynamic environment.
• You demonstrate critical thinking and analytical skills.
• You demonstrate good organizational skills and attention to detail.
• You like travelling.
• Fluency in oral and written English is a must. Additional language skills including German, Italian or French are highly desired.

Bio-Techne is committed to product quality, customer satisfaction, continued improvement, minimising environmental impacts and conserving natural resources.  Environmental and quality management is an integral core value and vital part of the Bio-Techne culture.

Why Join Bio-Techne:

• We offer competitive wages along with extensive benefits for employees and their families.

• We invest in our employees’ financial futures through retirement programs and an employee stock purchase plan.

• We help our employees develop their careers through mentorship, promotional opportunities, training and development, internship programs, and more.

• We offer an international and diverse working environment, enriched by employee resource groups; volunteer and charity events; and employee events that build a culture of caring and belonging. 

• We foster a culture of empowerment and innovation, where employees feel valued and encouraged to bring their new ideas to the table.

Bio-Techne is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

To protect the interests of all, Bio-Techne will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than a candidate application. Any unsolicited resumes sent to Bio-Techne will be considered Bio-Techne property.

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