The Principal Technical Sales Specialist is a field-based, top‑tier technical sales hunter who wins high‑value, strategically critical opportunities through consultative workflow design, regulatory and process influence, and innovation‑driven differentiation, significantly shaping market direction and advancing portfolio penetration in close collaboration with Central Sales.

Main Responsibilities & Tasks

Identify, pursue and win high‑value, complex strategic opportunities across key markets and accounts by uncovering unmet needs, latent demand, and innovation‑driven use cases
Design end‑to‑end workflows and advanced technical concepts that directly influence customer decision pathways, operational processes, and regulatory considerations
Lead competitive differentiation and high‑stakes deal shaping by synthesizing deep technical, application, and market insights to construct compelling value‑creation narratives that maximize our win rate
Guide commercial strategy with Central Sales by defining technical and functional requirements that determine solution configuration,



pricing logic, and deal construct for strategic opportunities
Shape the market and the portfolio by identifying trends, innovation points, and customer‑driven signals that influence product strategy, roadmap decisions, and market positioning
Drive early adoption and lighthouse success by embedding solutions into critical workflows, resolving escalated technical barriers, and enabling a seamless handover to Central Sales for scaling
Provide technical input to Central Sales, Business Unit stakeholders (e.g. PM, other BU Tech Sales roles) and Legal on the technical sections of contract terms and conditions to ensure technical feasibility, transparent scope definition, reduced delivery risk, and alignment with customer workflows, without assuming commercial ownership

Qualifications & Skills

Master’s degree in Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Engineering, or related field; PhD is a major plus
7+ years of senior

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