Technical Sales Specialist 80-100% (f/m/o)

Permanent employee, Full or part-time · Zürich, Switzerland

Teaser
Heidelberg Instruments Nano is a fully owned subsidiary of Heidelberg Instruments, located in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded as Swisslitho AG in 2014 out of IBM Research, the company joined Heidelberg Instruments in 2018. Heidelberg Instruments Nano supplies heated tip-based scanning probe lithography systems enabling the patterning of features as small as 15nm as well as heated probe-based surface modification. Heidelberg Instruments Nano’s groundbreaking new technology is applied by research labs, multi-user-facilities, and industrial customers around the world.

Heidelberg Instruments Nano is a subsidiary of Lab14, which is a subsidiary of RSBG SE, wholly owned by the RAG Foundation. The RAG Foundation finances the permanent liabilities left behind by the German coal mining industry and supports projects in the fields of education, science and culture.
Your mission
To support this endeavor, we are looking for a Technical Sales Specialist to bring our NanoFrazor technology and its applications closer to existing and future customers.

Your role and responsibilities:
  • Establish new and foster existing relationships with customers
  • Attend trade shows, conferences and other marketing events
  • Travel to potential clients worldwide
  • Technical presentations and demonstrations how a product will meet client needs
  • Negotiate tender and contract terms
  • Maintain distributor network with communication and training
  • Collaborate with R&D team to discuss inquiries from potential customers
Your profile
Required:
  • International sales experience of technical equipment
  • Excellent English in both oral & writing, further languages are advantageous
  • Superb communication and presentation skills, confidence to hold product & application presentations at customer sites or at scientific conferences
  • Willingness to travel
  • Openness for new technologies and applications

Advantageous:
  • Background in lithography, nano- & microfabrication or related fields
  • Strong network in the science and technology community
  • Experience with government funding procedures of research institutions
Why us?
What we offer:
  • An exciting and truly unique product line with many ideas and innovations in the pipeline
  • A dynamic international and interdisciplinary team with unique technical knowhow and low hierarchy levels
  • A long-term career perspective in a growing high-tech company in Zurich with further world-wide career
  • Possibilities also within our mother company Heidelberg Instruments owned by the RAG foundation.

Start date: Any time / Place of work: Zurich

For questions regarding the recruitment process contact our CFO & HR Manager Matthias Bürke, career-nano@himt.ch or +41 44 500 38 07
For questions regarding the job contact Emine Cagin CTO, emine.cagin@himt.ch or +41 44 500 38 08
About us
LAB14
Lab14 provides advanced manufacturing solutions. We are a group of successful high-tech companies with complementary products and services for a wide range of applications that require demanding solutions for nano- and microfabrication and surface analysis. Lab14 supports growth of each of its individual companies and at the same time fosters synergies between the companies to generate a competitive and technological advantage over other players in the field.  

HEIDELBERG INSTRUMENTS MIKROTECHNIK
Heidelberg Instruments is a global leader in designing, developing, and manufacturing of direct write lithography systems for micro- and nano- and 3D-patterning that are used in the research institutions and by industrial facilities around the world. Heidelberg Instruments lithography systems are used for photomask manufacturing and direct-write lithography for a large range of applications including MEMS, micro-optics, advanced packaging (3DIC), IC, flat panel displays (FPD), micro-fluidics, sensors, and other analog and digital electronic components. In 2018, SwissLitho AG joined the Heidelberg Instruments group and now trades as Heidelberg Instruments Nano; in 2021, Heidelberg Instruments acquired Multiphoton Optics GmbH. Heidelberg Instruments maintains a global network of subsidiaries to provide service and sales support for their installation base of over 1000 systems, which are used in more than 50 countries.
 
HEIDELBERG INSTRUMENTS NANO AG 
Heidelberg Instruments Nano is a fully owned subsidiary of Heidelberg Instruments, located in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded as Swisslitho AG in 2014 out of IBM Research, the company joined Heidelberg Instruments in 2018. Heidelberg Instruments Nano supplies heated tip-based scanning probe lithography systems enabling the patterning of features as small as 15nm as well as heated probe-based surface modification. Heidelberg Instruments Nano’s groundbreaking new technology is applied by research labs, multi-user-facilities, and industrial customers around the world.
 
MULTIPHOTON OPTICS GMBH 
Located in Wurzburg, Germany, Multiphoton Optics joined Heidelberg Instruments as a subsidiary in 2021. Multiphoton Optics, founded in 2013 as a Fraunhofer spin-off, is a global supplier of maskless 3D Laser Lithography Equipment for additive, subtractive and ablative manufacturing processes based on Two-Photon Polymerization (TPP) technology. Equipment from Multiphoton Optics have a large range of applications, including 3D-optical Interconnects, optical waveguides, integrated micro-optics, meta-lenses, 3D-scaffolds for biomedical applications, sensors and many others. Multiphoton Optics growing installation base benefits from Heidelberg Instuments sales- and service-infrastructure, which maintains over 1000 installations in more than 50 countries world wide.
 
OSIRIS INTERNATIONAL GMBH
Osiris International is a systems manufacturer specializing in photolithographic process equipment used in semiconductor and microsystems (MEMS) technology. Major semiconductor manufacturers and internationally renowned research and development institutions are amongst Osiris´ worldwide customer base. The equipment provided by Osiris international range from manual laboratory systems to fully automated cluster systems. In addition, Osiris International offers components (e.g. chucks, end-effectors) and sub-systems (e.g. dispense systems, media supply cabinets with various canister designs). 

40-30 SAS
Headquartered in Grenoble, France, 40-30 offers the complete range of maintenance, cleaning and repair solutions in vacuum technology, industrial electronics, and ultra-clean applications. In addition, 40-30 group offers training courses for equipment use, repair and diagnosis, software for process management, as well as a marketplace for spare parts, refurbished and new equipment. Through their international network of subsidiaries, 40-30 group services customers in the fields of semiconductor, microelectronics, aeronautics, research, chemistry, pharmaceuticals and energy.

SPECS GROUP
Specs group joins three brands in surface analytical installation:
Specs – Specialized in development and production of customized UHV surface analysis tools.
Nanonis - Nanotechnology, measurement solutions and control systems for scanning probe microscopy. 
Enviro – Enables surface analysis with x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) at near ambient pressure.

With an outstanding scientific network, worldwide sales and service infrastructure, it gives the three individual brands a home, in which they can concentrate on their strengths: create new technologies and products, control cutting edge experiments and evolve novel concepts for new applications. SPECS Group headquarters are situated in the center of Germany’s capital Berlin.

NOTION SYSTEMS GMBH
Notion Systems, a leading supplier of inkjet printing systems for functional materials, is based in Schwetzingen, near Heidelberg in Germany. Their n.jet inkjet platform is used to produce electronic displays, printed circuit boards, semiconductor components, as well as high precision optical 3D parts. Notion systems works together with leading sales and service organizations worldwide with focus on Asia, Europe and North America.

GENISYS GMBH
Based in Munich, Germany, with subsidiaries, North America, Asia and Turkey, GenISys is a global leader in the development and marketing of flexible, high-performance software solutions for the optimization of micro- and nano-fabrication processes. Genisys software solutions provide modelling, correction and optimization of data and processes in electron and optical lithography for semiconductor, MEMS and mask fabrication as well as software-based metrology solutions for scanning electron microscopy. With its emphasis on customer service, GenISys delivers fast, highly dedicated support for application and development of needed functionality to meet demanding customer needs. 
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