
Field Applications Specialist
- Reading
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Deliver expert application support for our Haematology and/or Blood Banking solutions, ensuring customers achieve optimal use of their systems in line with laboratory and clinical needs.
- Provide on-site and remote training for laboratory staff, focusing on workflow optimization, troubleshooting, and best practices.
- Support product installations and implementations, working closely with Field Service Engineers, Project Managers, and other stakeholders to ensure seamless go-lives.
- Act as the primary technical contact for customers, addressing application-related issues, escalating to appropriate teams when necessary, and maintaining clear, proactive communication.
- Collaborate with sales and service teams to identify opportunities, support product demonstrations, and help drive customer satisfaction and retention.
- Collect and share customer feedback (Voice of the Customer, NPS surveys, direct interactions) to inform product improvements and service delivery.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Science, Biomedical Engineering, Life Sciences, or a related field (Master’s degree advantageous but not essential) and or experience: 4 years of experience in a clinical laboratory, diagnostics, or medical device environment, ideally with exposure to application support, system implementation, or customer training.
- Technical Knowledge: Strong understanding of laboratory workflows, diagnostic applications, and instrument connectivity, with practical troubleshooting skills.
- Customer Focus: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to train and support laboratory staff, resolve application issues, and build trusted customer relationships.
- Problem Solving: Demonstrated ability to analyse technical and workflow challenges, provide effective solutions, and escalate issues appropriately.
- Flexibility: Willingness to travel regularly to customer sites to deliver training, support installations, and provide applications expertise.
- Driving License
- Ability to travel 80%
- Previous experience in the healthcare or diagnostics industry, with exposure to implementing or supporting laboratory instrumentation and applications in customer environments.
- Experience contributing to complex projects, such as instrument installations, workflow optimizations, or cross-functional collaborations, with the ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
- Creative and innovative mindset, with the ability to “think outside the box” when addressing customer needs, workflow challenges, or technical problems.
- Flexibility in location, ideally based within the region of Reading, United Kingdom to enable regular customer site visits and travel.