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Job TitleSales Specialist - Perten Türkiye (Ankara)Location(s)Ankara
Job Description
Help Shape the Future of Food Quality
At Perten (a PerkinElmer company), we believe science drives progress. Our technologies help around the world improve food quality, safety and compliance through innovative analytical solutions.
We're looking for a passionate and driven Sales Specialist to join our Perten team in Türkiye. In this role, you'll be responsible for growing our Perten and Delta laboratory instrumentation business by developing new customer relationships while strengthening partnerships with existing clients.
If you're passionate about sales, enjoy solving customer challenges, and thrive in a dynamic, technology-driven environment, we'd love to meet you.
What You'll Be Doing
As a Sales Specialist, you'll play a key role in driving business growth across Türkiye by identifying new opportunities and delivering value to customers in the food industry.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Driving sales growth across your assigned territory.
- Developing new business opportunities while expanding existing customer relationships.
- Building trusted partnerships with food manufacturers and food testing laboratories.
- Promoting Perten's industry-leading portfolio.
- Supporting local distributors and channel partners.
- Delivering product demonstrations, seminars and technical presentations.
- Managing your sales pipeline, preparing accurate forecasts and achieving sales targets.
- Staying informed about market trends, customer needs and competitive solutions.
- Working collaboratively with internal teams to deliver an outstanding customer experience.
What You Bring
We're looking for someone who combines commercial excellence with a passion for technology and customer success.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Food Engineering or a related field.
- At least 3 years of B2B sales experience
- Meet assigned annual sales targets
- Experience managing strategic customer accounts
- Excellent communication, presentation and relationship-building skills
- Self-motivated with a proactive, results-oriented mindset
- Ability to understand and communicate technical products
- Valid driver's license
- Willingness to travel extensively (at least 50% overnight travel)
- Good communication skills in English.
What Will Help You Succeed
You'll be successful in this role if you:
- Build lasting customer relationships based on trust.
- Enjoy identifying new business opportunities.
- Take ownership and consistently deliver results.,
- Think strategically while acting with urgency.
- Adapt quickly to changing business priorities.
- Enjoy working independently while collaborating across teams.
- Are curious, eager to learn and continuously develop your technical and commercial expertise.
Why Join PerkinElmer?
At PerkinElmer, you'll become part of a global organization committed to advancing science and improving lives.
When you join us, you'll have the opportunity to:
- Work with market-leading laboratory technologies.
- Partner with some of the world's leading food manufacturers.
- Grow your career in an international organization.
- Collaborate with talented colleagues across multiple countries.
- Make a meaningful impact on food quality and safety.
Ready to Make an Impact?
If you're excited about combining science, technology and sales to help customers succeed, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply today and become part of PerkinElmer's Perten team in Ankara.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Food Engineering or a related field
- At least 3 years of B2B sales experience
- Proven ability to meet assigned annual sales targets
- Experience managing strategic customer accounts
- Excellent communication, presentation and relationship-building skills
- Self-motivated with a proactive, results-oriented mindset
- Ability to understand and communicate technical products
- Valid driver's license
- Willingness to travel extensively (at least 50% overnight travel)
- Good communication skills in English
- Ability to build lasting customer relationships and identify new business opportunities
- Ability to work independently while collaborating across teams
PerkinElmer Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about PerkinElmer and has not been reviewed or approved by PerkinElmer.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support stands out through strong 401(k) matching and, in places, immediate vesting that can materially increase total rewards. The ability to direct contributions and manage rollover options adds flexibility to long-term savings.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave offerings are described as fair, with paid holidays, vacation, floating holidays, and paid sick leave included across many roles. Reported PTO amounts (e.g., roughly three weeks or 18 days) suggest a solid baseline even if it varies by site and department.
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Flexible Benefits — Benefits appear broad and customizable, spanning multiple insurance types, spending accounts, wellness programs, and optional coverages like pet insurance. Added programs such as EAP resources, backup care, discount platforms, and tuition reimbursement expand the total rewards footprint beyond core pay.
PerkinElmer Insights
What We Do
For 85 years, PerkinElmer has pushed the boundaries of science from food to health to the environment. We’ve always pursued science with a clear purpose – to help our customers achieve theirs. Our expert team brings technology and intangibles, like creativity, empathy, diligence, and a spirit of collaboration, in equal measure, to fulfill our customers’ desire to work better, innovate better, and create better. PerkinElmer is a leading, global provider of technology and service solutions that help customers measure, quantify, detect, and report in ways that help ensure the quality, safety, and satisfaction of their products. Learn more at www.newperkinelmer.com.
