Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Able to lift 40 lbs. without assistance

Job Description

Provides strong strategic and operational leadership to team of Technical Sales Specialists (TSS) responsible for the NA region for Mass Spectrometry to ensure that CMD growth targets are met across all territories and product lines. Ensures that teams operate within regional goal trees in areas of booking/revenue growth, sales process optimization, funnel development and employee development. Adopt and live 4I values. Leads Sales specialists ensuring alignment across all business areas within region and wider areas. Works closely and drives business growth with all regional indirect sales managers, CMD Sales Support, CMD Marketing, Regional IES Service Lead to ensure optimal account and business development.

Key responsibilities:

Commercial Leadership:

Direct management of all Technical Sales Specialists for Mass Spectrometry across North America

Establishes and controls expense budgets for team and works closely with finance/commercial partners to supervise these

Provide strong strategic and operational leadership to TSS including PPI project management and action plans to achieve goal tree plans and to building and maintain core business processes and procedures, designed to increase customer satisfaction.

Achieve above AOP growth for the relevant product lines in line with regional requirements.

Assist in Recruit, train, review, development of sales teams to meet market demands.

Collaborate with all Thermo Fisher teams and drive process improvement initiatives with all relevant functions related to indirect sales optimization.

Actively adopt the corporate talent management processes for your teams, driving performance and engagement through the company tools & processes

Responsible to develop, maintain and communicate competitive knowledge. Provide driven training and support the indirect sales managers in driven commercial opportunities

Selling Agility

Applies all sales key performance indicators to drive specific initiatives and to support feedback and/or recommendations to business partners

Analyses team territory and prioritizes team activities to drive maximum results

Supervises team pipelines to ensure accuracy, timeliness and provide strong business signal

Describes and instructs sales processes for successful sales strategy execution

Drives standard processes on opportunities management amongst the team to produce desired behaviors

Provides improvement suggestions to sales operations to minimize use of off-line reporting tools

Technical

Coaches team to understand competitive landscape and relevance to customer workflows

Assesses the team's understanding of the competitive landscape and brings in vital resource to close competitive intelligence needs

Aware of competitor eco systems in assigned territory and uses as a potential talent pool

Coaches team to understand the product portfolio and how this relates to key application areas

Ensures balanced selling across full portfolio and identifies any potential training gaps within team

Effectively navigate in the organization to bring in the technical expertise based on team needs

Know the Customer

Role models balancing customer needs and expectations

Effectively coaches team on solution selling to anticipate customer future difficulties and workflows.

Creates a responsive team that adapt to customer needs and act quickly to resolve customer issues

Actively coaches teams on how to interact and succeed with customers and how to turn a negative experience into future opportunities

Self-Leadership

Develop and facilitates an environment in which colleagues leverage long term relationships and partnership to achieve business objectives

Champions and recognizes effective communication across global teams across Thermo Fisher

Sets SMART goals to translate strategies into thorough operating plans

Challenges the team to bring new point of view forward to overcome difficulties to achieve business objectives

Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Science or Business based fields required, MS degree in Science or Business based fields PREFERRED

Dynamic commercial business experience; distribution or international experience required

Strong people leadership track record, to include leading within a matrixed environment with the ability to inspire, influence and lead others

Strong mentoring and developing skills

Demonstrated commitment to the customer

Ability to build and maintain processes and procedures

Excellent written and oral communication

Familiarity with commercial sales and marketing tools to collect and understand the market preferred

Advanced PC skills

Ability to generate and maintain information to provide feedback on performance

Experience to plan & prioritize multiple tasks and projects.

Reflector style – able to learn from mistakes and always wants to achieve best possible performance

Benefits

We offer competitive remuneration, 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!

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. As one team of 100,000+ colleagues, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation and support patients in need. #StartYourStory at Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.