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The Position
Application Specialist - Chennai
A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That’s what makes us Roche.
This position will be based in Chennai & will cover Tamil Nadu & will be reporting to Regional Manager - Application
Application Specialists provides after-sales support to customers on Roche Diagnostics Product Portfolio. The application support provided on the phone, by email or during site visit is in the form of troubleshooting assistance, technical product information, operation instructions, product application information, operator training and a variety of application-related work (set-up, optimization, workflow, correlation, etc). The Application Specialist suggests solutions upon consulting with the internal teams and supports other Roche colleagues with in depth product expertise. This position also stays in sync with Roche procedures as well as documentation requirements.
Your Opportunity
- Providing support to customers when any technical issues arise in a prompt and timely fashion (standby hours may be required occasionally).
- Providing post-sales support to the customer to aid in establishing new parameters and answer technical inquiries.
- Installing & configuring instruments and related reagents. Set-up/optimize assays.
- Perform customer training.
- Collaborate with Sales & Technical Support Specialists etc in troubleshooting problems.
- Maintain and develop customer facing documentation for support and training.
- Attend training on appointed Roche instrumentation and / or Roche applications.
- Perform or assist with software upgrades of customer instrument base.
- Install applications on Roche platforms according to Roche guidelines / procedures;
- Participate in regional and national conference calls by updating the technical team on issues.
- Run correlation studies and validations in coordination with the customer if/as required;
- Establish a plan to visit and/or communicate with each assigned customer on a cycle or frequency matching the customer’s needs and support requirements and Roche’s business priorities.
Who You Are:
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Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
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5 + years relevant application experience or equivalent experience
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Participation in an approved accelerated development, fellowship or rotational program may be considered in lieu of experience
Who we are
At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.
For more than 60 years, Roche has been committed to making a difference to the lives of people in India. Roche Diagnostics India is the market leader in In-Vitro-Diagnostics, providing diagnostic testing for early detection, evaluation and monitoring of disease. On the product side, the organisation provides a wide range of diagnostic products for customers around distinct disease areas namely diabetes, virology, blood screening, women's health, microbiology, oncology and genomics.
Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
What We Do
Roche is a global pioneer in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics focused on advancing science to improve people’s lives. The combined strengths of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics under one roof have made Roche the leader in personalised healthcare – a strategy that aims to fit the right treatment to each patient in the best way possible.
Roche is the world’s largest biotech company, with truly differentiated medicines in oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, ophthalmology and diseases of the central nervous system. Roche is also the world leader in in vitro diagnostics and tissue-based cancer diagnostics, and a frontrunner in diabetes management.
Founded in 1896, Roche continues to search for better ways to prevent, diagnose and treat diseases and make a sustainable contribution to society. The company also aims to improve patient access to medical innovations by working with all relevant stakeholders. Thirty medicines developed by Roche are included in the World Health Organization Model Lists of Essential Medicines, among them life-saving antibiotics, antimalarials and cancer medicines. Roche has been recognised as the Group Leader in sustainability within the Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Life Sciences Industry ten years in a row by the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI).
