[Hiring] R&D Field Account Manager @Sartorius

Role Description

Join our Sales team as an R&D Field Account Manager Strategic Accounts (F/M) and play a key role in driving early-stage value creation through deep engagement with customer R&D sites. By building trusted relationships, supporting technology validation, and creating visibility of molecule and process development activities you will help accelerate the development and production of innovative therapies for better health for more people.

Your main focus will be a key strategic biopharma account based in Belgium, with occasional travel to the UK and Italy to support additional strategic accounts. Based from home, ideally close to Brussels, you will become part of a team of 6 dedicated professionals who look forward to shaping the future together with you.

Please submit your application in English only. Thank you!

Responsibilities

• Build sustained relationships at Strategic Account R&D sites with scientific and managerial stakeholders to increase access, trust, early visibility of molecule programs, discovery and R&D process decisions.
• Map and maintain molecule pipeline visibility by tracking program status, site footprint, and upcoming decision points from discovery through R&D to enable timely technology seeding and opportunity creation.
• Identify and prioritize early-stage technology seeding opportunities by translating R&D process needs and discovery-stage requirements into concrete use cases and aligning required Business Units technical experts for validation support.
• Drive validation of selected technologies through process & product trials and defined process steps with the customer, including scale-up/scale-down and manufacturing-sensitive validation where applicable.
• Support pilot and clinical-phase (Phase I–III) process and product trials by enabling scale-up/scale-down validation, process optimization, and manufacturing-sensitive readiness in collaboration with Product Development, Tech Transfer, and CMOs.
• Control and monitor the new process landscape within the account by flagging footprint changes, risks, and implications early to relevant internal stakeholders.
• Execute structured handovers of validated programs to the commercial scope by packaging stakeholder maps, process context, validation evidence, and next actions.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Biochemical Engineering, or comparable field.
• 3+ years in customer-facing roles in biopharma environments with strong exposure to R&D contexts.
• Industry experience within R&D in bioprocessing, upstream or downstream process or purification or filtration is a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to operate credibly in highly scientific environments and translate early R&D needs into structured validation and adoption paths.
• Confident communicator able to influence diverse, senior decision makers and partner with Technical Sales to shape complex customer solutions.
• Strong stakeholder management across customer R&D networks and internal matrix teams.
• High proficiency in CRM (SFDC) and disciplined documentation for structured handover for data-driven sales steering.
• Fluent English.
• Willing to travel >50% as this role is heavily focused on external customers.

Company Description

Sartorius is part of the solution in the fight against cancer, dementia, and many other diseases. Our technologies help translate scientific discoveries into real-world medicine faster, so that new therapeutics can reach patients worldwide.

We look for ambitious team players and creative minds, who want to contribute to this goal and advance their careers in a dynamic global environment.

Join our global team and become part of the solution. We are looking forward to receiving your application.

www.sartorius.com/careers