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    Business Development Manager - PFAS

    Waters Corporation

    🇺🇸 United States
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    Work Type

    Remote

    Vertical

    SaaS

    Source

    himalayas

    About this role

    OverviewWe are seeking a commercially focused, strategic, and results-driven Sales Development Manager to lead growth within the rapidly expanding PFAS testing market across the United States.The successful candidate will drive market development and revenue growth by partnering with Contract Testing Organizations (CTOs), environmental laboratories, commercial analytical testing providers, and strategic industry stakeholders.

    The role will focus on positioning Waters PFAS analytical solutions, workflows, applications, consumables, informatics, and services to enable laboratories to expand testing capacity, improve productivity, and respond to evolving regulatory

    requirements.This role requires close collaboration with regional sales teams, application specialists, marketing, regulatory affairs, and business units to identify growth opportunities and develop strategic commercial plans that accelerate Waters leadership in PFAS analysis. This is a remote position based in the United States with significant customer-facing engagement.

    ResponsibilitiesMarket Development, Strategy and Opportunity Creation Develop and execute the U.S. PFAS CTO growth strategy, including market segmentation, geographic prioritization, target-account planning and opportunity creation.

    Identify opportunities across environmental, water, food, packaging, cosmetics, textiles and industrial materials testing laboratories, informed by regulatory drivers, market trends and competitive dynamics. Build relationships with key decision-makers, laboratory leaders, industry influencers and strategic customer stakeholders.

    Pipeline Development, Commercial Execution and Sales Support Generate, qualify and manage a robust PFAS opportunity pipeline through customer engagement, networking, conferences, campaigns and targeted outreach. Partner with account managers, specialists and application scientists to progress opportunities through evaluations, demonstrations, workflow discussions, proposals and commerci

    Tools & Tech Stack

    Outreach

    Selling Motion

    Prospecting

    Channel / Partner

    Sell through partners, resellers, or alliances

    Buyer Persona

    C-Suite

    Selling to executive decision-makers

    Territory

    Geographic

    Region-based territory assignment

    Requirements at a Glance

    Bachelor's Degree·Required

    Typical Day — Sales Rep

    Stakeholder meetings3–5/week
    Proposals & business cases1–2/week
    Pipeline managementDaily

    Estimates based on role type and selling motion — actual may vary by company.

    Role Signals

    Green Flags

    ✓
    Remote Friendly

    Location flexibility

    SaaS — Interview Intel

    Typical Sales Cycle

    30–90 days (SMB) · 3–9 months (Mid-Market) · 6–18 months (Enterprise)

    Common Buyer Objections

    • "We're locked into a contract with [competitor]"
    • "We built something in-house already"
    • "We don't have budget until next quarter"
    • "Our team won't adopt another tool"

    Key Industry Metrics

    ARR / MRRNet Revenue Retention (NRR)CAC Payback PeriodLogo Churn vs Revenue ChurnACV (Avg Contract Value)Magic Number

    Hot Topics to Reference

    • • AI-native product disruption
    • • PLG vs sales-led motion debate
    • • Vertical SaaS consolidation
    • • Usage-based pricing models

    Use these insights to speak the buyer's language in interviews.

    Tags

    Business-Development-Manager
    Sales-Development-Manager
    Market-Development-Manager
    Commercial-Manager
    Account-Manager
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    Role Insights

    This leadership position involves both strategic planning and hands-on coaching of the sales team.

    SaaS sales roles typically involve consultative selling with longer deal cycles.

    This remote-friendly role provides geographic flexibility while maintaining access to a SaaS market.

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