Application Specialist /Filtration and Microbiology - Central US

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4 Locations
In-Office or Remote
85K-110K Annually
Mid level
Biotech
The Role
Provides technical expertise and application support for laboratory filtration and microbiology products across the Central US. Responsibilities include identifying cross-selling opportunities, planning and executing customer demonstrations and trials, supporting technical sales and proposals, delivering pre- and post-sales assistance, and sharing customer insights. The role requires frequent external customer engagement, strong scientific communication, CRM proficiency, and travel exceeding 50%.
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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.


Main Responsibilities and Tasks


  • Support customer evaluations, application assessments and technical consultations by translating process requirements into appropriate product and workflow recommendations to accelerate product adoption
  • Execute application trials, validations, proof-of-concept activities and customer training by designing, coordinating and documenting customer-specific evaluation, onboarding plans and outcomes to increase implementation success rates
  • Resolve technical inquiries, application challenges and product performance issues by troubleshooting customer processes and coordinating corrective actions with relevant functions to protect customer productivity
  • Provide application expertise throughout opportunity development by contributing technical insights, competitive positioning and solution recommendations for customer use cases to improve technical suitability of proposed solutions
  • Capture customer feedback, application trends and competitive intelligence by analyzing field observations, trial outcomes and product usage patterns and sharing actionable recommendations with Product Management and relevant stakeholders to influence portfolio enhancementsns

Qualification & Skills


  • 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
  • In-depth knowledge of relevant products, applications and associated customer workflows
  • Ability to troubleshoot technical and application-related issues in customer environments
  • Hands‑on technical capability, including demos, trials, evaluations and customer training activities with the ability to document application findings, trial outcomes and technical recommendations in a structured manner
  • Ability to collaborate effectively across Sales, Product Management, Quality and other cross-functional stakeholders in a matrix
  • Customer orientation with the ability to understand customer needs and translate them into effective application solutions
  • Strong communication and presentation skills, able to articulate technical value to diverse stakeholders
  • 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


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, disability or based on status in any other protected group of class.


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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.


We look forward to receiving your application.

www.sartorius.com/career


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 [email protected]

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 [email protected]

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. 
www.sartorius.com/careers

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Engineering, or a related field
  • At least 3 years of technical sales, applications support, or customer-facing experience in a scientific or technical environment
  • Strong hands-on technical capability, including demonstrations, trials, and customer evaluations
  • Excellent consultative communication skills and ability to explain technical and commercial value to diverse stakeholders
  • Proficiency in CRM systems and structured sales processes, with strong documentation discipline
  • Willingness to travel more than 50%
  • Alignment with the company's values of Sustainability, Openness, and Enjoyment

Sartorius Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Sartorius and has not been reviewed or approved by Sartorius.

  • Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes multiple medical plan options with dental, vision, HSA/FSA, EAP, and wellness resources across many locations. Quality of core medical, dental, and vision is characterized as solid.
  • Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k) with a company match highlighted in U.S. materials and employer‑verified listings. The match is characterized as generous at some sites.
  • Flexible Benefits — Flexible hours and hybrid/home‑office options are available where roles and regions allow, with role‑dependent perks in some locations. Broader extras such as commuter benefits, discounts, and tuition assistance add optionality where eligible.

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The Company
HQ: Göttingen
9,059 Employees
Year Founded: 1870

What We Do

Sartorius is a leading international partner of life sciences research and biopharmaceutical manufacturing. We help our customers #SimplifyProgress from drug discovery to manufacturing so that more people can have access to better medicine. With this, we are #PartOfTheSolution in the fight against diseases worldwide. With innovative laboratory instruments and consumables, the our Lab Products & Services division focuses on laboratories performing research and quality control at pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies as well as academic research institutes. The Bioprocess Solutions division, with its broad product portfolio focusing on single-use solutions, helps customers manufacture biotech medications, vaccines, and cell and gene therapies safely, rapidly, and economically. Based in Göttingen, Germany, Sartorius also has a strong global reach with around 60 production and sales sites worldwide. We regularly expand our portfolio through the acquisition of complementary technologies. In 2023, Sartorius generated sales revenue of around 3.4 billion euros. Currently, around 14,600 employees from around 110 nations are working for customers around the globe. Join our team, partner or collaborate with us.

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