
Life Science Specialist
Richmond, VAJob$102–153K/yrSeen 6 days agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago
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Job overview
The Senior Product Specialist supports revenue growth and customer success across Thermo Fisher Scientific product portfolios. The role applies technical expertise and consultative sales to identify opportunities, build customer relationships, demonstrate products, and advise customers on research and development goals. It also provides technical leadership in customer engagements and works with cross-functional teams.
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Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Laboratory Setting, Office
Job Description
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.
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Join our collaborative team at Thermo Fisher Scientific as a Senior Product Specialist, where you'll support revenue growth and customer success across our innovative product portfolios. In this role, you'll apply your technical expertise and consultative sales approach to identify opportunities, build strong customer relationships, and deliver solutions that enable groundbreaking scientific advances. Working with cross-functional teams, you'll provide technical leadership in customer engagements, conduct product demonstrations, and serve as a trusted advisor to help customers achieve their research and development goals. Your contributions will directly support our mission of enabling customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer.
REQUIREMENTS:
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Bachelors Degree and equivalent technical sales experience in life sciences, analytical instruments, or related field
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Preferred Fields of Study: Life Sciences, Chemistry, Engineering or related scientific field
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Strong technical understanding of relevant scientific workflows and applications
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Demonstrated success in meeting and exceeding sales targets
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Expert presentation and communication skills with ability to engage stakeholders
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Experience with CRM systems and Microsoft Office applications
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Success in consultative selling and complex sales cycles
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Strong project management and organizational abilities
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Proven relationship building and networking capabilities
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Ability to work effectively in a matrix organization
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Ability to travel up to 50-75% within assigned territory
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Bilingual skills preferred
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Deep knowledge of specific product technologies and workflows as required by position
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Experience presenting at scientific conferences and trade shows
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Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
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Ability to develop and implement territory plans
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Demonstrated ability to collaborate across functions
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Experience supporting and developing other team members
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Strong customer service focus
Compensation and Benefits
The salary range estimated for this position based in Virginia is $102,200.00–$153,350.00.
This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:
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A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
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Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
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At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
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Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
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Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount
For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards
Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.
How this job compares
Set against the 338 open Product Specialist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$102–153K/yr
- US median$91–136K/yr176 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $128K, is 12% above the US median midpoint ($114K) — in the middle half of Product Specialist salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 10 open Product Specialist jobs in Virginia and 338 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
- ThermoFisher Scientific (this employer)16 open
- RDO Equipment13 open
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- Experience
- Product Specialist postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 5 years (212 postings).
- Education
- 77 of the 338 open Product Specialist jobs (23%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Pay, requirements and demand for Sales jobs
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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