
Head of Commercial Services (x|f|m)
Key Skills
Job Description
This role is home office based in Europe with substantial international travelling.
Grow With Us – Your Responsibilities
- Define and implement the global service commercial strategy by translating service offerings into clear value propositions, target audiences and use cases to drive sustainable service revenue growth and market relevance
- Integrate service portfolio, sales execution and channel strategies to ensure consistent end‑to‑end commercial performance and service revenue growth
- Align service commercial execution, priorities and targets with global strategy to ensure consistent market execution across regions
- Define and manage the global partner and channel strategy for services by establishing roles, value propositions, enablement concepts and governance models to expand service reach and increase service penetration
- Steer service commercial performance by defining targets, KPIs and review cadences across regions, partners and channels to ensure service growth delivery and commercial effectiveness
- Define and enforce service selling approach, including bundling, attach and commercial playbooks across sales channels to ensure consistent service revenue generation
What Will Convince Us
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related technical discipline
- Several years of experience in technical service or commercial environments such as Marketing and Sales, ideally within life science instrumentation, analytical systems, diagnostics, or automation, including after sales service for complex hardware–software systems
- International experience in driving service commercial or growth initiatives in regulated environments
- Technical understanding of advanced instrumentation, system integration, calibration, and service processes; familiarity with regulated device environments and compliance expectations (e.g., ISO standards, safety & quality frameworks)
- Strong understanding of customer journeys, service usage, customer pain points and value-based selling concepts
- Strong strategic and analytical capabilities with demonstrated use of KPIs, service metrics, and data-driven decision making
- Excellent collaboration and stakeholder management across regions and functions
- Very good command of English, both written and oral
What We Offer
As a growing global life science company, stock listed on the MDAX & TecDAX, Sartorius offers a wide range of Benefits:
- Shape Commercial Services Business: In this new role, you have the chance to shape our Commercial Services strategy and drive Services business growth
- Personal and Professional Development: Mentoring, leadership programs, Talent Talks, internal seminar offerings , coaching for managers
- Work life balance: Remote options, flexible work schedules, sabbaticals
- Making an impact right from the start: Comprehensive onboarding, including a virtual online platform even before joining, Welcome Workshops, "buddy" as point of contact
- Welcoming Culture: Mutual support, teamspirit and international collaboration; communities on numerous topics, such as coaching, agile working and business women network
- You will be employed at Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH.
We promote diversity and inclusion and welcome applications from people of all nationalities, genders, sexual orientations, religions, age groups, disabilities, and cultural backgrounds.
About Sartorius
Sartorius is part of the solution in the fight against cancer, dementia, and many other diseases. Our technologies help translate scientific discoveries into real-world medicine faster, so that new therapeutics can reach patients worldwide.
We look for ambitious team players and creative minds, who want to contribute to this goal and advance their careers in a dynamic global environment.
Join our global team and become part of the solution. We are looking forward to receiving your application.
www.sartorius.com/careers
Core Responsibilities
The Head of Commercial Services will define and implement the global service commercial strategy to drive sustainable revenue growth and market relevance. This leadership role involves managing service sales, product management, and channel strategies while ensuring consistent commercial performance across regions.
Requirements
Candidates must hold a bachelor's degree in engineering or a related technical discipline and possess extensive experience in technical service or commercial environments. Strong strategic capabilities, international experience in regulated industries, and excellent stakeholder management skills are essential for this position.
Benefits
- Mentoring
- Leadership programs
- Talent talks
- Internal seminar offerings
- Coaching for managers
- Remote options
- Flexible work schedules
- Sabbaticals
- Comprehensive onboarding
- Welcome workshops
- Buddy program
About Sartorius
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Company size: 10,001+ employees
Sartorius is a leading international partner of biopharma research and manufacturing. We help our customers simplify progress from drug discovery to manufacturing so that more people can have access to better medicine. And simplifying progress starts with our employees who move things forward by realizing ambitious ideas and growing alongside with the company. Our product portfolio covers two customer groups: With innovative laboratory instruments and consumables, Sartorius focuses on laboratories performing research and quality control at pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies as well as academic research institutes. Our broad bioprocess product portfolio focusing on single-use solutions, helps customers manufacture biotech medications, vaccines, and cell and gene therapies safely, rapidly, and economically. Based in Göttingen, Germany, Sartorius also has a strong global reach with more than 60 production and sales sites worldwide. We regularly expand our portfolio through the acquisition of complementary technologies. In 2025, Sartorius generated sales revenue of around 3.5 billion euros. Currently, more than 14,000 employees from 110+ nations are working for customers around the globe. Join our team, partner or collaborate with us.