# Upstream Customer Application Specialist

. Your Role: Join our dynamic Customer Applications team within the Process Solutions commercial organization! As an Upstream Customer Application Specialist, you will leverage your expertise in Upstream Process to collaborate with customers and drive sales in the EMEA West region. Your role will involve developing integrated strategies, supporting sales teams, and presenting our Upstream expertise to customers through engaging interactions. You will play a key role in identifying market opportunities, positioning cell culture media and associated upstream products, and ensure successful brand awareness across the portfolio. If you're passionate about innovation and customer success, we invite you to apply and contribute to our mission of advancing science and technology! Who You Are You have over 5 years of relevant technical experience in the life science industry, with hands-on expertise in Upstream processes. You possess a solid understanding of sales cycles from prospecting to closure in the Biopharmaceutical industry, complemented by relevant commercial experience. You have experience with biological production across various modalities, including mAbs, and Cell and/or Gene t

- **Id**: 4154470
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/merck-group-upstream-customer-application-specialist-2>
- **Role**: Biotech
- **Role family**: Biotech
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Madrid, Spain
- **Countries**: ES
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-13T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T01:43:42Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 33
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1630
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Prescription Drugs, Advanced Materials, Laboratory Equipment, Chemical Manufacturing

## Company

- **Id**: 64563
- **Name**: Merck Group
- **Domain**: merckgroup.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/merckgroup>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Phenom

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 92
- **Open postings**: 42
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.31
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 27
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Technologies

- **Cell Culture** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 33

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T10:20:05Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 45
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.817
- **P room**: 0.55
- **Age days**: 32
- **Expected fill days**: 27
- **Reasons**: conf:4, velocity, win:tail, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

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