When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do important work, like helping customers in finding cures for cancer, protecting the environment or making sure our food is safe. Your work will have real-world impact, and you’ll be supported in achieving your career goals.

How will you make an impact?

The Field Application Scientist will provide scientific expertise, applications support and training to customers on Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Invitrogen instruments through a variety of interfaces. This may include in-person, phone and/or email communications. They will partners with sales reps in the field to deliver product line specific pre- and post-sales related customer support activities and solve customer escalations effectively. Also acts as a trusted expert to our customers, thereby increasing customer satisfaction and loyalty and contributing to the overall success of the business. The geography of responsibility is New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Ideal candidate will live in the New York City Area.

What will you do?

Training – Internal & External

• Provide field support to our sales organization by providing customers with technical guidance (pre & post sales activities)
• Provide internal training across commercial teams and business units as needed
• Manage Key Opinion Leader (KOL) relationships through routine scientific communication and updates on new product launches
• Interface with the global technical training teams and share best practices across organization

Voice of Customer (VOC) & Customer Relations Management

• Act as liaison between customers, R&D, and Product Management teams
• Flow Cytometry experience – setting up, troubleshooting and running flow cytometry experiments
• Attend national conferences and events to capture developing trends
• Present on behalf of Thermo Fisher Scientific at key global conferences

Business Development

• Provide market sensing mechanism, identifying new opportunities and highlighting gaps in current portfolio
• Interface with R&D and PM teams
• Support internal business and product development efforts through feedback on innovation pipeline
• Stays current on scientific and industry trends and innovations

How will you get here?

Minimum Qualifications:

• BA or BS in Biology, Immunology, Cell Biology, Microbiology, Stem Cell Biology, Bio-Technology or related scientific field
• 3 or more years of experience working with flow cytometry experiments – knowledge of how to set up and troubleshoot experiments
• 3 or more years of experience working with flow cytometry instruments – must know how to set-up, troubleshoot and run flow cytometer
• Able to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of variables in situations where only limited standardization exists
• Excellent written and oral communications skills
• Works from a remote home office
• Travel up to 50% or more
• Valid Driver’s license is required.
• Most duties are performed at field locations which may require walking within customer facilities, standing while giving presentations or conducting meetings and sitting to complete reports and sales calls.
• Demonstrations may require moving equipment and manual dexterity and ability to lift up to 50 pounds

Preferred Qualifications:

• PhD is strongly preferred
• 5 or more years of laboratory experience working with Flow Cytometry
• Experience with the Attune NxT flow cytometer
• Experience in a customer-facing role and/or providing technical and scientific presentations to a variety of audiences

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue exceeding $25 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, improving patient diagnostics and therapies or increasing productivity in their laboratories, we are here to support them. Our global team of more than 75,000 colleagues delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services and Patheon. For more information, please visit www.thermofisher.com.