Sales Applications Chemist

Application Chemist

Waters, the world's leading specialty measurement company that cares about inclusion and diversity, is seeking an Application Chemist to support the very successful growth of our businesses across SEA. Waters deliver benefits through innovation and people that enable customer success in the life, materials and food sciences. People create the Waters difference. By engaging with our talented and diverse workforce we continuously evolve, develop and enhance our products. We believe in delivering innovative technology and system solutions to our valued customers to enable their success. Our talented application teams have over the years delivered great and sustainable technical solution.

As an Application Chemist, this role will combine excellent scientific skills with strong commercial business acumen, and the desire to contribute to the customers' success by helping them choose the best system solution from Waters product portfolio to address the customers' analytical challenges. The Applications Chemist will do sample analysis across multiple types of applications (not limited to), Food & Environment, Chemical Materials, Pharmaceutical, Life Sciences with a focus on LC & MS instrumentation.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with Business partners and Field Sales operations to provide credible and impartial consultancy and technical sponsor in a fast paced pre- and post sales environment.
• Collaborate with the team of Account Managers in diagnosing the customer's requirements, and design analysis that showcase the better capabilities of Waters product portfolio in line with the customers' goals.
• Perform instrument demonstrations and provide expert advice to customers during the sales process, focusing on how Waters system solutions will address and benefit the customer's needs.
• Ensure that the equipment, analysis and customer demonstrations are properly prepared, in order to guarantee the highest level of customer experience in a timely manner.
• Perform system and application training as well as technical sponsor to customers after the product has been installed.

Qualifications

Educational Background: A BSc in a relevant field is required; MSc is preferred.

Pre-Sales Experience: At least 3 years of pre-sales experience in analytical instrumentation, particularly with chromatography (HPLC, UHPLC, UPLC). Experience with mass spectrometry (LC-MS/ GC-MS) or Empower software would be advantageous.

Technical Expertise: Strong experience in method development, troubleshooting HPLC and other analytical instruments.

Industry Application Knowledge: Ability to apply knowledge to various fields such as pharma, food, environmental sciences, chemical materials, and biopharma. Experience with biopharma applications would be advantageous

Company Description

Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) is a global leader in life sciences and diagnostics, dedicated to accelerating the benefits of pioneering science through analytical technologies, informatics, and service. With a focus on regulated, high-volume testing environments, our innovative portfolio harnesses deep scientific expertise across chemistry, physics, and biology. We collaborate with customers around the world to advance the release of effective, high-quality medicines, ensure the safety of food and water, and drive better patient outcomes by detecting diseases earlier, managing routine infections, and combating antibiotic resistance. Through a shared culture of relentless innovation, our passionate team of ~16,000 colleagues turn scientific challenges into breakthroughs that improve lives worldwide.

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It benefits our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to sex, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, marital status (including civil unions), military service, veteran status, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions), genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, legally recognized disability, domestic violence victim status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All hiring decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.