Job Description

When youre part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, youll do important work, and youll be valued and recognized for your performance. With talented managers and inspiring coworkers to support you, youll find the resources and opportunities to make significant contributions to the world.

How will you make an impact?

The territory Account Manager is responsible for selling chromatography and laboratory consumable products for the Chromatography Consumables business within the Analytical Instruments Group. This person will focus on exceeding sales quotas for the full product portfolio within the assigned territory by selling and negotiating contracts to close orders with end user customers, key decision makers and procurement.

This field based position covers Florida, Alabama and Mississippi and will require overnight travel at times up to 30%

What will you do?

* Achieve/ exceed assigned monthly & yearly sales goals/quotas within assigned territory

* Identify, develop and close large sales opportunities

* Develop and implement strategic account specific strategies to develop new customers and opportunities and secure territorial annual sales growth consistent with corporate/divisional AOP goals

* Ability to use sales tools, develop detailed business plans, organize, accurately forecast territory results, provide market intelligence, implement value selling and meet sales objections while operating within expense budgets and control costs

* Sells new products by establishing key customers relationships and understanding customer application needs

* Aligns with applicable channel/distribution partners, inside sales reps, product & application specialists, chromatography & mass spectrometry instruments, customer experience and business development teams as well as other inter-company synergistic individuals.

* Lead Key Account activities for high value accounts. Possibly cross-territories

* Maintain and continue to develop a superior knowledge of our products and their applications.

* Train and motivate channel/distribution/rep organizations to optimize achievement of sales goals via their supplementary efforts.

* Monitor competitive activity and industry trends, fosters competitive solutions to meet sales goals

* Timely submit forecasts, weekly reports, monthly highlights, marketing intelligence, and other related reports for defined territory to supervisor

* Maintain accurate and current records of proposals, opportunities, accounts, contacts, leads and actions through SalesForce.com CRM within defined territory

* Keep manager abreast of any new developments in the marketplace (competitive, product, customer, wins/losses, etc...)

* Present the companys products in a positive manner and maintain/build our reputation in the marketplace

* Maintain intensity persistence and continually strive to increase market share

How will you get here?

Education and Required Experience:

* Requires BS degree in Chemistry or related field or equivalent work experience and knowledge .

* Minimum two years of selling experience strongly preferred.

* Must have working knowledge of Chromatography (GC and HPLC) and should have knowledge of Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS and LC/MS)

* Must also have a broad familiarity with the following industries: biotech, pharmaceutical, academia research, medical research & clinical/toxicology.

* Experience developing and executing sales and/or field marketing plans as well as time/territory management plans to develop long-term relationships, drive account expansion and penetration.

* Knowledgeable with respect to competitive landscape for chromatography products and services.

* Ability to identify new target accounts each year and be able to develop and execute territory plans.

* Prior experience forecasting and use of a CRM (SFDC) for reporting.

* Experience in managing independent selling or distribution channels a definite plus.

* Demonstrates the Thermo Fisher values (The Four Is) Integrity, Intensity, Innovation, and Involvement

This position has not been approved for relocation assistance.

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