Principal Application Chemist

Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world's leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for more than 60 years. With more than 7,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality.

PRINCIPAL APPLICATION CHEMIST

Waters, the world's leading specialty measurement company that cares about inclusion and diversity is seeking for a Application Chemist to support the very successful growth of our businesses across China region. TA-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 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 TA 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.

• Conduct internal Waters Solutions Training to Field Sales Operations.

Qualifications

Education:

• Masters Degree, or PhD in scientific area such as meterial science, chemical engineering or biochemistry

Experience:

• 10+ years user experience with thermal analyzers, rheometers, thermophysical testing instruments and other analytical instruments

Skills:

• Action oriented and eager to achieve results.

• Sound communication and presentation skills.

• Highly organized / well-prepared / time management skills.

• Strong interactive skills and a good listener.

• Matured disposition, positive attitude and strong sense of dedication.

• Adaptive to a dynamic and ever-changing environment.

• Strong technical background in analytical technologies, especially thermal analyzers rheometers, and thermophysical testing instruments.

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It is our responsibility to actively implement programs and practices to drive inclusive behavior and increase diversity across the organization. We are united by diversity and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or protected Veteran status.