About the role
What do we need
We are seeking a high-impact Sales Manager to drive new logo growth across the Life Sciences industry. The territory is primarily in Chennai,India
This is a pure hunter role with enterprise scale opportunity.
You will own your territory end-to-end — identifying whitespace, generating pipeline, and closing strategic SaaS platform deals. You will also leverage the global footprint, executive relationships, and industry penetration of Siemens to open doors and expand opportunity scope.
This is not transactional selling. This is consultative, transformational enterprise selling — engaging R&D, IT, Digital, Engineering, and C-suite leaders around digital transformation and industrial digital thread strategy.
If you thrive on building markets, creating demand where budgets may not yet exist, navigating complex, multi-threaded buying committees and leveraging ecosystem relationships to unlock enterprise access, this role is for you. You’ll have the opportunity to close strategic opportunities of 500k - 1M+ ACV selling the world’s world’s most comprehensive scientific R&D platform.
This is a rare chance to combine the agility of a high-growth SaaS platform with the global power of a €70B industrial technology leader.
In this role you will
- Own and Build Your Territory: Develop and execute a strategic territory plan across Life Sciences accounts, drive disciplined new logo acquisition and build pipeline through outbound prospecting, ABM, executive alignment, industry events, and Siemens co-selling opportunities
- Lead Complex Enterprise Sales Cycles: Engage stakeholders across R&D, IT, Engineering, Digital Transformation, and the C-suite, Build ROI-driven business cases for enterprise data platforms and AI-enabled workflows. Navigate multi-stakeholder negotiations and procurement environments. Close high-value, platform-level SaaS deals
- Leverage the Siemens + Dotmatics Digital Thread
- Position Dotmatics’ scientific R&D platform within the broader Siemens digital enterprise strategy
- Align conversations across R&D, engineering, manufacturing, and product lifecycle teams
- Collaborate with Siemens Digital Industries Software sales teams to expand account penetration
- Unlock opportunities across multi-division industrial enterprises
- Sell Strategic Transformation: Translate complex scientific and industrial data challenges into clear business value, position AI-enabled R&D, automation, data harmonization, and digital thread strategies and move discussions from lab workflows to enterprise transformation
- Be the Voice of the Market: Partner with Marketing, Product, and Customer Success to drive long-term growth. Provide insight into industry trends and competitive dynamics and identify expansion opportunities across Siemens’ broader portfolio footprint
We are looking for people who have demonstrated 6+ years experience in growth/new logos across large territories, typically liaising/engaging with CxOs, R&D teams, and IT leaders—influencing multi-dimensional decision-making. You can demonstratea strong track record in new business growth of territories, enterprise SaaS sales, in the Life Sciences industry, selling data management, automation, or AI that sells to R&D, IT, and business stakeholders.
The key skills we are looking for
- Proven Hunter: Demonstrated success landing new logos in large, complex territories
- Track record of enterprise SaaS sales into $1B+ organizations
- Experience closing 500K–1M+ ACV deals
- Scientific Domain Experience: Experience selling in biopharma, biotech and related life sciences environments
- Understanding of digital transformation initiatives across R&D and engineering
- Executive-Level Influence: Ability to engage cross-functional buying committees, comfortable leading conversations with R&D scientists, IT leaders, Digital Transformation heads, Engineering executives, and CxOs
- Platform & Transformation Mindset: Experience selling complex, unbudgeted solutions
- Comfort positioning enterprise data platforms, automation, AI, or digital thread strategies
- Ability to collaborate within a large enterprise sales ecosystem (Siemens + Dotmatics)
- Strategic & Process-Oriented: Strong territory planning discipline, consistent pipeline generation, structured use of sales methodology and metric-driven.
Bonus: Scientific or engineering background in life sciences, materials, chemistry, or related field.