Job ID :
42352BR
Location :
South Africa - Remote / Field
:
Job Description
Responsibilities
Develop Thermo Fisher business and relationship by providing:
- Support the Clinical market on the operation of Thermo Fisher Scientific / Ion Torrent product portfolio in Next Generation Sequencing
- Promotion of clinical solutions to existing customers
- Owning the implementation of assays and products / clinical solutions within customer sites
- Responsible for maximizing customer satisfaction by aligning complex product solutions and services with key customer initiatives. Build and maintain relationships with key decision makers or potential influencers
- Understanding the clinical landscape in their countries and develop a strategy how to best tackle the clinical markets in their regions
- Manage relationships with key Thermo Fisher Scientific collaborating partners
Job duties will include the following tasks:
- Review and assist customers with their protocols and assays on Ion Torrent / Thermo Fisher instrumentation at in-house facilities and at customer sites
- Help customers design and conducts experiments to assist in evaluations of Ion Torrent / Thermo Fisher products
- Promote clinical solutions at customer sites and in conferences/user meetings
- Work in collaboration with the Clinical Account Manager to set up best strategy for customer site
- Build strong relationships with customers in South Africa and Middle East countries
- Maintain and develop the CRM database
- Maintain consistent and structured communication with counterparts and articulate summarized communication to Manager on a periodic basis
- Obtain successful adoption of the technology within all applied markets while investigating the potential of other applications and solutions both pre-clinically and clinically
- Align with other teams in the company on a regular basis
- Estimated 30-40% travel, always planable
Experience/Qualifications/Qualities that are important in this role
- Graduate (minimum) qualification in an appropriate science subject, molecular biology or bioinformatics preferred
- Experience in molecular biology application is mandatory. Bioinformatics experience is strongly desirable
- Previous experience as application specialist in the clinical market or any NGS/BFX experience desirable
- Medical background, laboratory experience, and/or managed care knowledge desirable.
- Understanding of the Diagnostic markets and ability to gather good market intelligence with respect to competitive products and vendors
- Excellent communication and influencing skills
- Ability to understand and articulate complex scientific literature and use extensive complex clinical data as a key factor in the sales process
- Strong drive for success
- Excellent English skills, additional languages prefferable
- Willingness to travel