Senior Director of Sales, APAC
The successful candidate will be based in Japan, Korea or Singapore
Are you a proven commercial leader with a track record of accelerating growth across Asia Pacific?
We're looking for an exceptional Senior Director of Sales, APAC to lead our commercial organisation across one of the world's most exciting and dynamic regions. Reporting to the VP Global Sales and Applications, you'll be responsible for driving revenue growth, market expansion and commercial excellence across Japan, South Korea, Australia, India, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia.
This is a high-profile leadership opportunity for someone who thrives in complex international environments and is passionate about building high-performing teams.
What You'll Do
Lead the APAC commercial strategy, delivering ambitious revenue, orders and profitability targets.
Inspire, coach and develop country leaders and sales teams across the region.
Build strong relationships with key customers, strategic accounts, distributors and industry influencers.
Drive market expansion and identify new growth opportunities across established and emerging markets.
Champion sales excellence through forecasting, funnel management, pricing discipline and operational rigour.
Strengthen distributor and channel partner performance to maximise customer impact and regional growth.
Act as a key voice within the global leadership team, bringing market insights and strategic recommendations.
What We're Looking For
Extensive leadership experience within scientific instrumentation, laboratory equipment, analytical technologies or a related technical B2B environment.
Demonstrated success delivering sustained growth across APAC markets.
Experience leading multi-country sales organisations and managing through influence in matrix environments.
Strong distributor and channel management expertise.
Bachelor's degree in a scientific, engineering or technical discipline (MBA desirable).
Exceptional leadership, communication and stakeholder management skills.
Deep understanding of APAC market dynamics, with experience in India's scientific instrumentation market highly advantageous.
Why Join Us?
This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of a growing global business in a region that represents significant strategic investment and opportunity.
You'll have the autonomy to influence strategy, develop exceptional teams, strengthen customer relationships and deliver meaningful business growth across APAC.
If you're ready to make a lasting impact and lead growth across one of the world's most diverse and exciting markets, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply today and help shape the future of scientific innovation across APAC.
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We provide market-leading, material characterization technologies for the world's most innovative companies, academic institutions, and government laboratories in the analytics of advanced materials.
We support our customers through their biggest challenges, from developing lifesaving vaccines to sustainable fuels. We wake up every day to delight our customers through innovation, high-quality solutions and workflows, and excellence in customer satisfaction.
We are a recognized leader for quality and insights in material characterization; winning customers with performance and keeping them with service. With more than 2,000 employees operating in over 20 countries across the world, and R&D sites in North America, Europe and Asia.
We are part of Spectris, a company which combines precision with purpose to equip customers to solve some of their greatest challenges to make the world cleaner, healthier and more productive. In 2025, Spectris acquired Micromeritics as part of Malvern Panalytical.
Skills Required
- Extensive leadership experience within scientific instrumentation, laboratory equipment or analytical technologies
- Proven track record delivering sustained growth across APAC markets
- Experience leading multi-country sales organisations and managing in matrix environments
- Strong distributor and channel management expertise
- Bachelor's degree in a scientific, engineering or technical discipline
- MBA
- Exceptional leadership, communication and stakeholder management skills
- Deep understanding of APAC market dynamics
- Experience in India's scientific instrumentation market
What We Do
Spectris harnesses the power of precision measurement to equip customers to make the world cleaner, healthier, and more productive. The company provides high-tech instruments, test equipment, and software for many of the world’s most technically demanding industrial applications.
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