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OfficeJob Description
When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do important work, like helping customers find cures for cancer, protecting the environment, or making sure our food is safe. Your work will have a real-world impact, and you’ll be supported in achieving your career goals. Join us and contribute to our singular mission – enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer!
Thermo Fisher Scientific's ImmunoDiagnostics Division (IDD) develops, manufactures, and markets simple blood tests to support the clinical diagnosis and monitoring of allergy, asthma, and autoimmune diseases. With 1,900 employees worldwide, IDD is the global leader in in-vitro allergy testing and the European leader in autoimmunity diagnostics. Explore our website to learn more: www.allergyinsider.com
How will you make an impact?
As part of the IDD US Learning and Development Sales Training Team, the Sr Lab Sales Training Specialist will participate in the development and execution of sales training strategies and tactics aligned with our Laboratory Sales Team's job performance goals and learning requirements. This team has several levels of sales personnel, including Strategic Account Executives, Strategic Account Managers, and Business Development Executives.
What will you do?
- Support the training of all Laboratory Sales personnel, including leadership
- Train sales force personnel in laboratory, C-Suite, and health systems environments
- Deliver an outstanding new-hire onboarding experience that promotes learning and development
- Empower and build an engaging, adult learning principles-centered learning experience
- Perform regular field co-travels with sales representatives in need of new-hire and/or tenured employee upskill training support
- Design, develop, and implement national and area sales training activities; potentially working with external training agencies and/or marketing and sales teams to provide the best possible trainings
- Develop effective and ongoing communications with field sales and marketing management to help understand the needs of Lab Sales representatives and to develop specific sales training objectives and strategies to meet these needs
- Learn and adopt new, relevant training technologies, which could include training content development software
- Assist with the logistical planning and organizing of training activities (class preparation, facilitator engagement, and set up)
- Improve new hire learning retention through collaboration with managers and mentors
- Provide follow-up and feedback to sales personnel and the management team
How will you get here?
- Bachelor's Degree required
- 4+ years of laboratory healthcare sales and/or sales leadership experience with shown success required
- Proven track record of influencing partners without direct authority
- Experience and ability to build and maintain cross-departmental, multi-functional, and collaborative relationships
- Knowledge and experience with business software applications, including MS Outlook Suite (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel), as well as virtual communication tools
- Approximate travel requirement: 30-40%
- Ability to travel extended periods of time throughout the year for training classes that can take place up to 1 week at a time
- Ability to travel remotely across the US to support new hire and current sales team training in the field, customer-facing
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Ability to understand customer dynamics and extraordinary product offerings commensurate with individual needs
- Knowledge of/exposure to laboratory markets, IDNs, and health systems
- Experience with the Diagnostics Industry, including laboratory and clinical businesses
- Prior experience with Salesforce.com or a similar CRM
- Experience and/or certification in relevant professional sales training programs
- Possess a detailed understanding of selling skills and demonstrate excellent presentation and facilitation skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Ability to learn and adopt new technologies
- Strong communication skills, ability to “think on your feet”, organized, and results-focused
- Possess an understanding of the current healthcare environment
Preferred Experience:
3 + years of experience selling in the medical diagnostic laboratory space
Coaching and mentoring new sales associates
Knowledge of IDD US laboratory instruments and products
Knowledge of SPIN and Strategic Selling w/Perspective sales methodologies
Benefits
We offer competitive remuneration, an annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation!
Compensation and Benefits
The salary range estimated for this position based in Michigan is $93,800.00–$140,675.00.This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:
A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount
For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards
Skills Required
- Bachelor's Degree
- 4+ years of laboratory healthcare sales and/or sales leadership experience with demonstrated success
- Proven track record of influencing partners without direct authority
- Experience building and maintaining cross-departmental, multi-functional relationships
- Knowledge and experience with MS Outlook Suite (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel) and virtual communication tools
- Ability to travel approximately 30-40%, including extended periods up to one week for training
- Ability to travel across the US to support field and customer-facing training
- Understanding of customer dynamics and product offerings in laboratory/clinical settings
- Knowledge of/exposure to laboratory markets, IDNs, and health systems
- Experience in the Diagnostics industry, including laboratory and clinical businesses
- Prior experience with Salesforce.com or a similar CRM
- Experience and/or certification in professional sales training programs
- Strong presentation, facilitation, oral and written communication skills
- Ability to learn and adopt new technologies
- Possess an understanding of the current healthcare environment
- 3+ years selling in the medical diagnostic laboratory space
- Coaching and mentoring new sales associates
- Knowledge of IDD US laboratory instruments and products
- Knowledge of SPIN and Strategic Selling with Perspective sales methodologies
Thermo Fisher Scientific Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Thermo Fisher Scientific and has not been reviewed or approved by Thermo Fisher Scientific.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a strong company 401(k) match and an employee stock purchase plan that add meaningful long‑term value. Feedback suggests these features stand out among core financial benefits even when base pay feels average.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage offers multiple national medical options alongside dental and vision, with company‑paid life and disability coverage. This breadth is considered a solid foundation even if some costs may not be the lowest among peers.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental and caregiver leave, backup care, adoption assistance, and specialized family resources are available. Feedback suggests these supports are a notable plus for colleagues managing family and caregiving needs.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Insights
What We Do
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of approximately $40 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, increasing productivity in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them. Our global team 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, Patheon and PPD.
Why Work With Us
You will join a company which every colleague has the opportunity to create possibilities, for oneself, for our customers and patients. There is no more exciting place to be than at the forefront of solving problems which help improve lives around the world. As a company, we are committed to supporting your career aspirations and your journey.
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