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Field - Chemistry Technology Specialist - (Boston Area)

Merck Group
Burlington, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 10 Apr 2026
💰 $178,700/yr($103,500/yr$178,700/yr)

About the role

 

Work Your Magic with us! Start your next chapter and join MilliporeSigma.

 

Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.  

 

This role does not offer sponsorship for work authorization. External applicants must be eligible to work in the US. 

 

Your Role:

This is a field-based technical sales specialist position within the Life Science Division of MilliporeSigma. You will engage in scientific discussions with customers, focusing on driving the adoption of innovative Early Discovery Workflow products across all pertinent customer segments. Your role will involve achieving a sales target by interacting with customers to discuss how our products can be utilized in their experiments while collecting objective feedback. You will be a subject matter expert in organic chemical synthesis and will support new product introductions across adjacent workflows such as, Metabolomics, Lead Discovery, and Chemical Biology.

 

Key Responsibilities:

  • Portfolio Focus: Organic Synthesis Reagents and Platforms, Digital Chemistry, Multiomics, Medicinal Chemistry and adjacent portfolios.
  • In coordination with the account manager, assist in developing support, sales plans, and strategies for active and potential business related to innovative early stage discovery workflows.
  • Develop technical solutions for customer applications and challenges. 
  • Intimate knowledge of applications to position our product offering. 
  • Assist Account Managers with account mapping by having a comprehensive understanding of the customer's research, business initiatives, R&D organizational structure, and new technology evaluation/implementation processes. 
  • Tailoring of technical content to the customer. 
  • Deepen and broaden MilliporeSigma customer relationships with key scientific leaders. 
  • Technical training for account managers. 
  • Provide knowledge of competition and the current marketplace. 
  • Ability to build scientific credibility with customers, the commercial organization, and marketing. 
  • Partner with Commercial Marketing and Product Management to ensure the successful launch of innovative products; generation and implementation of materials supporting strategic and tactical sales initiatives.  

 

  • Expertise and Insights into: 

 

    • Synthetic methodologies and advanced digital chemistry solutions.
    • Signaling pathways and associated products.
    • Integrated synthetic pathway solutions and reagents for laboratory workflows.
    • Organic compounds and their applications in research.

 

Who You Are

Minimum Qualifications:

  • BS degree in organic chemistry or related field related field with 5+ years combined laboratory  or commercial experience, or advanced degree in related field.
  • Ability to travel regularly (20-50%), overnight travel is dependent on home location 
  • Must live within the Boston area. No relocation packages are available 
  • Computer literacy is mandatory (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, SalesForce, etc.) 
  • Excellent presentation and selling skills.
  • Ability to work effectively and influence others in a matrix environment.
  • Rapidly acquire technical knowledge of MilliporeSigma innovations and integrate them into workflows and technical selling.

 

Preferred Qualifications:

  • M.S. or Ph.D. with 5+ years of experience in a sales or customer facing role.
  • Prior field sales, marketing, or customer facing experience
  • Degree in organic chemistry or related field with a minimum of 3 years of industrial

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