Product & Application Specialist

Job Type: Full Time
Job Location: Bahrain
Experience level: Mid-Senior level
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Product & Application Specialist - Bahrain - DNA Recruitment

The Product & Application Specialist drives commercial growth across the molecular and genomics portfolio by combining field sales, technical applications support, and customer success. You will identify and pursue new opportunities, conduct product demos, and negotiate compliant contracts while maintaining strong relationships with existing accounts. Working closely with Marketing, Service, Finance, Logistics, and our principals, you’ll coordinate launches, trainings, and timely deliveries, and ensure accurate invoicing and reporting.

A key part of the role is troubleshooting instruments, running validation and application workflows, and delivering workshops that translate complex NGS concepts into practical value. Success looks like sustained revenue growth, high customer satisfaction, and well-documented pipelines. This role is based in Bahrain; Arabic and English fluency and willingness to move to a company visa are required.

Product & Application Specialist – Job Responsibilities:

Market Knowledge:
– Conducting market research to identify new potential customers.
– Analyzing market trends to identify new products in the market and understanding their advantages and disadvantages.
– Planning and assisting with new product releases and events.
– Maintaining technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, benchmarking state-of-the-art practices, and participating in professional societies.
 
Business Development:
– Establishing contact with new customers to inform them of our products, understanding their needs, and how we can help them.
– Providing potential customers with support, information, and guidance by performing product demonstrations for them and gathering their feedback.
– Following up with the new customers after the demo session to negotiate contracts and packages.
– Ensuring all details of the contract are compliant with our rules & regulations.
 
Marketing:
– Coordinating with the Marketing Department for any new materials that need to be done.
 
Sales:
– Maintaining relationships with existing customers by providing them with support, information, and guidance.
– Recommending new products to existing customers as per their needs and providing them with support, information, and guidance to ensure a great relationship with them.
– Providing existing customers with support, information, and guidance by performing product demonstrations for them and gathering their feedback.
– Assisting the customers in answering all product-related questions in a professional and timely manner.
– Recommending new service improvements to further build on the relationship.
– Advising on helpful new product recommendations and suggestions to customers to increase revenue.
– Negotiating contracts and packages with existing customers.
– Maintaining quality service by establishing and enforcing standards.
– Contributing to the team effort by achieving the annual target set by the management and assisting the team when needed.

Data Track:
– Preparing reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information, and maintaining accurate records of all products sold.
 
Orders:
– Placing orders with the concerned purchase coordinator.
– Following up with the Procurement & Logistics team with regards to sending them the products and ensuring that they reach them on time.

Invoicing:
– Coordinating with the Finance Department to ensure proper invoicing of the products and following up with them with regards to the collection/payment.
 
Delivery:
– Coordinate with the warehouse for the timely deliveries.

Application:
– Trouble shooting of the instruments.
– Introduction and Demo of new Products to the End Users.
– Technical Data – Matching and Filling the Project Specification sheets and Requirements.
– Preparing and suggesting the consumables lists by studying the need of each customers to promote reagents and consumables sales.
– Attend customer calls regarding supply and inform sales team.
– Coordinating conferences and materials.
– Conducting workshops and giving Application trainings.
– Completing validation process of every product in MBU.

Support:
– Support the Sales Team for Handling Projects in Terms of Specifications and Technical comparison discussions with the End Users.
– Coordinate with Service engineers for the Installation, PMs, and rectifications
– Coordinate with the sales team to know more about the competition and provide argumentation in a scientific way
– Assist sales teams during technical discussions
– Prepare training certificates for customer training attendees
 
Service Team Coordination:
– Coordinate with Service engineers for the Installation, PMs, and rectifications, and plan trainings accordingly. 


Communication with principal companies:
– Communicate with principals on technical information.
– Communicate with principals on any queries of the customer that cannot be resolved from our end.
– Keep updated with the latest training schedules and training materials.
– Attend all relevant webinars conducted by the principals. 
– When new technical information is received from the principal company, transfer of this information internally to all concerned persons, especially when there is a new version of software or incompatibility between instruments, or any other relevant information.

Product & Application Specialist – Job Qualifications:

  • Education: Bachelors Degree in Medical Lab/ Biotechnology or related science
  • Experience: 2+ years experience in NGS, Molecular & Genomics field. Sales & Application experience. 
  • Job Specific Skills: Strong hands-on experience with NGS workflows, including library preparation, sequencing, data analysis, and interpretation.
    -able to performsequencing runs across a variety of applications, e.g., whole genome sequencing, RNA-Seq, exome sequencing, etc.
  • Experience working with NGS platforms (Illumina, PacBio, Oxford Nanopore, 10X genomics, etc.)
  • Additional details: Candidates should be willing to move company visa in Bahrain
  • Fluency in Arabic and English

Step into the role of Product & Application Specialist and advance genomics across MEA, driving growth, elevating customer outcomes, and turning complex NGS workflows into real-world results.


Product & Application Specialist - Bahrain - DNA Recruitment

DNA consultant in charge of this requisition:

Katarzyna Kusy

CEEMEA Research Consultant

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