As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer! We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

How will you make an impact?

This opening is for a highly qualified and self-motivated individual to support our latest generation LC-MS instrumentation as an Application Scientist. As a member of the Thermo Fisher Scientific North America Center of Excellence, the candidate will work within a multi-disciplinary matrix team that includes regional sales representatives, marketing and service professionals, product development scientists, and engineers. Primary responsibilities will be to support the commercial field sales team by conducting LCMS product demonstrations related to (but not limited to) qualitative and quantitative proteomics applications. Additional responsibilities include providing pre-sales support to our LSMS sales team at both virtually and at customer sites to position them for successful wins, and enabling the success of our customers through post-sales training and application support.

What will you do?

• Conduct and participate actively in LCMS product demonstrations showcasing Thermo Scientific’s newest generation of mass spectrometry products (hybrid and tribrid Orbitrap technology).
• Provide pre- and post-sales technical support as well as applications assistance in response to customer inquiries (both internal and external), including education, training and occasional on-site visits.
• Develop new applications applying Thermo Scientific LCMS offerings, including writing application notes, peer reviewed publications, and presenting at the appropriate scientific conferences.
• Connect with customers in a professional manner.
• Create well-organized information-rich tools (documents and seminars) and effectively deliver them in an engaging manner.
• Combine conceptual and analytical knowledge to independently address difficult problems.
• Independently prioritize projects and manage behavior to most effectively accomplish core job functions.

How will you get here?

• 5+ years of related experience with a Master’s degree is required or 2+ years of related experience with a PhD is preferred.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• 3+ years of hands-on LCMS experience.
• Experience with qualitative and quantitative proteomics LCMS workflows (e.g. label free quantitation, TMT, PTM analysis and discovery proteomics) and associated sample preparation techniques.

• This position requires extensive contact with customers and therefore outstanding verbal and written communication skills are required.
• A proven track record to work independently and a strong work ethic is critical.
• Ability to travel up to 20% within North America.

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