Field Application Specialist, Clin Lab

**The Opportunity**:
QuidelOrtho unites the strengths of Quidel Corporation and Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, creating a world-leading in vitro diagnostics company with award-winning expertise in immunoassay and molecular testing, clinical chemistry and transfusion medicine. We are more than 6,000 strong and do business in over 130 countries, providing answers with fast, accurate and consistent testing where and when they are needed most - home to hospital, lab to clinic.

Our culture puts our team members first and prioritizes actions that support happiness, inspiration and engagement. We strive to build meaningful connections with each other as we believe that employee happiness and business success are linked. Join us in our mission to transform the power of diagnostics into a healthier future for all.

**The Role**:
As we continue to grow as QuidelOrtho, we are hiring for a Field Application Specialist in East Florida. The Field Application Specialist is the front-line resource responsible for providing technical and sales support to Clinical Laboratory (CL), Transfusion Medicine (TM), and Automation sales within a geographic territory or list of named accounts. Responsible for driving solution implementation, providing both proactive and reactive customer support, optimizing customer laboratory configuration, and contributing to ultimate retention and menu expansion of current customers by teaming with Acute Account Managers (AAMs) and Strategic Account Executives (SAEs), as applicable. This is a remote position covering the East FL territory.

**The Responsibilities**:

- Customer Retention: Maximize customer retention rates by ensuring customer satisfaction, executing pre-defined customer touch point/call plan, leading customer training (on-site, as needed), anticipating and defending against competitive threats, and leveraging strategic selling framework
- Menu Expansion: Proactively team with AAM& SAE to identify and close menu expansion opportunities
- Strategic Planning: Team with AAM & SAE to align on and execute strategic plans that prioritize, retain, and expand current CL and TM accounts.
- Product Implementation (Test of Record): Drive efficient implementation of new products through deep product knowledge and execution of optimal, standardized Ortho processes; crossed trained in CL, Automation and TM
- Customer Support: Participate in troubleshooting and re-training to address customer issues, as necessary; work with internal QuidelOrtho resources and customer to ensure timely resolution of issues
- Consulting and Troubleshooting: Optimize customer laboratory configuration and operation through proactive consulting and troubleshooting customer touch points
- Cross-Team Coordination: Collaborate with AAM to retain and expand menu; teams with SAEs to execute SAE-led IDN strategy, as applicable
- Forecasting and Reporting: Provide timely and accurate updates on lab activity, account updates, and other reports via CRM system; collaborate with Marketing to identify opportunities for equipment placement in CRM environment
- Perform other work-related duties as assigned.

**The Individual**:
Required:

- ** Education**: Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree with the Medical Technology certification, or equivalent experience.
- ** Experience**: Clinical Background: Minimum of 2 years of related experience in a clinical laboratory, transfusion medicine, or equivalent experience.
- Industry/Domain Knowledge: Solid Clinical Chemistry market knowledge for the purpose of understanding market forces impacting the business.
- Independent Worker: Ability to deliver results while working in a highly independent and fast-paced team environment
- Business Acumen: Proficient at uncovering key business issues and providing insightful, actionable recommendations for improvement
- Communication: Advanced verbal and written communication skills
- Must have a valid US driver's license in good standing.
- ** Travel**: Overnight travel of 50-75% will be required, depending up on workflow.

**Preferred**:

- Experience within Healthcare or Medical Device industry

**The Key Working Relationships**:
**Internal Partners**:

- Acute Account Manager to strategically plan and conduct sales calls
- Strategic Account Executive regarding any SAE-led IDN-related opportunities
- CL/TM Area Technical Specialist to escalate complex implementations and service issues
- Commercial Operations to ensure timely and accurate forecasting and reporting, and support of enablement initiatives

**External Partners**:

- Customers including but not limited to Laboratory Managers, Supervisors.

**The Work **Environment**:
Typical outside field based environment. Must have the discipline, organization skills and self-motivation to work autonomously in a home office environment. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. While performing the du