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Job Description

Location: Field-Based East Region

Reporting To: Field Applications Specialist Manager, U.S. Region

Position Summary

Enable science. Drive adoption. Deliver customer outcomes.

At Waters, Field Applications Specialists are critical to ensuring customers realize the full value of their investment through expert scientific engagement, application guidance, and workflow optimization. Operating at the intersection of science and customer success, you guide users from onboarding through long-term adoptiontranslating complex technologies into meaningful scientific and operational outcomes.

This role goes beyond troubleshooting. It requires the ability to understand customer workflows, deliver impactful training, and proactively drive utilization and adoption. You will partner closely with commercial, service, and marketing teams to strengthen customer outcomes, increase product adoption, and uncover opportunities for growth.

This is a high-impact role where scientific expertise, customer engagement, and execution directly influence utilization, customer retention, and long-term value creation.

Role Purpose

As part of the Waters Biosciences division, ensure successful customer onboarding, product adoption, and sustained success by providing high-impact technical training, workflow optimization, and application expertise that enables customers to achieve their desired outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Customer Engagement & Training
• Lead customer onboarding to ensure a seamless transition from purchase to implementation
• Deliver high-quality, application-focused training tailored to customer workflows and expertise levels
• Educate customers on best practices to maximize instrument and application performance
• Support initial setup, validation, and readiness of customer workflows
• Post-Sale Technical Support & Expertise
• Provide advanced application support and troubleshooting across instruments and workflows
• Partner with customers to resolve complex technical challenges efficiently
• Serve as a trusted scientific advisor for ongoing application needs
• Escalate and coordinate resolution of complex issues with internal teams
• Workflow Optimization & Adoption
• Drive utilization through proactive engagement and scientific consultation
• Advise customers on optimizing workflows and improving outcomes
• Identify gaps and recommend best-practice solutions
• Enable customers to achieve measurable success with technologies and reagents
• Customer Success & Retention
• Strengthen customer satisfaction and long-term retention through consistent engagement
• Reinforce value realization and ensure achievement of intended outcomes
• Build strong, trusted relationships with scientific stakeholders
• Support broader customer success initiatives aligned to business objectives
• Expansion & Opportunity Identification
• Identify opportunities to expand application usage and workflow breadth
• Surface unmet needs for additional products, reagents, or capabilities
• Partner with Account Managers and Technical Sales Specialists to support growth opportunities
• Contribute insights to territory and account development strategies
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Partner closely with commercial, technical sales, service, and marketing teams
• Support coordinated, account-based customer engagement strategies
• Provide field insights to inform product development and training programs
• Contribute to a collaborative, team-based customer success model

What Success Looks Like

• Enables customers to achieve meaningful scientific and operational outcomes
• Accelerates onboarding and reduces time to productivity
• Minimizes technical barriers and improves implementation success
• Increases product utilization and application adoption
• Improves customer satisfaction, retention, and loyalty
• Identifies and supports account expansion opportunities

Qualifications & Experience

Required

• Bachelor's degree in life sciences or related field
• Hands-on experience with flow cytometry applications and cell sorting
• Strong troubleshooting capabilities across complex workflows
• Ability to translate scientific concepts into practical application
• Strong training, communication, and presentation skills
• Valid driver's license with at least 3 years of driving history
• Ability and willingness to travel extensively (6070%), including multi-day overnight travel

Preferred

• Advanced degree in life sciences or related field
• Experience with spectral flow cytometry
• Experience operating and troubleshooting cell sorters
• Prior customer-facing application support or training experience
• Familiarity with FlowJo, Infinicyt, OMIQ, or FCS Express
• Experience in workflow optimization and method development
• Experience working cross-functionally in commercial or field environments
• Residence in Boston, MA, New York, NY, Philadelphia, PA, or Atlanta, GA

Work Environment & Travel

• Field-based role with frequent on-site and remote customer engagement
• Travel driven by customer and business needs

Why Waters

Waters plays a critical role in advancing scientific discovery and improving human health. Our teams partner with leading organizations across Pharma, Biotech, Academic, and Government sectors to solve complex scientific challenges.

As part of Waters, you will:

• Enable customers to achieve meaningful scientific outcomes
• Work with innovative technologies and applications
• Collaborate across scientific and commercial teams
• Directly contribute to customer success and long-term value creation

Who Thrives in This Role

• Scientists passionate about training, teaching, and enabling others
• Customer-centric professionals who build long-term scientific partnerships
• Problem-solvers who enjoy optimizing workflows and applications
• Collaborative partners who work effectively across teams
• Self-driven individuals committed to delivering high-impact field engagement

Who This Role Is Not For

• Individuals seeking non-customer-facing or purely transactional roles
• Those uncomfortable with travel and field-based engagement
• Candidates who prefer reactive rather than proactive customer interaction

Equal Opportunity

Waters is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building an inclusive workplace where all employees can thrive.

Why Join Us?

To find purpose in the possibilities, we need people who can see the bigger picture, who understand the human story that underpins everything we do. We welcome people with the imagination and drive to help us reinvent the future of healthcare. At BD, you'll discover a culture in which you can learn, grow and thrive.

We believe that when people connect in person, we learn faster, collaborate more deeply, and build a stronger culture. Join us and enjoy a culture where face-to-face collaboration supports your learning, your progress, and your success.

To learn more about BD visit https://bd.com/careers.

Becton, Dickinson, and Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, marital or domestic or civil union status, familial status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, disability, military eligibility or veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

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