Corporate Sales Executive - North Carolina/ South Carolina

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

ABOUT ABBOTT

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

JOB DESCRIPTION
The Corporate Sales Executive role is responsible for selling the entire portfolio of cardiovascular product categories (Coronary/ Endo, CRM/EP, Structural Heart, Heart Failure and Capital), by executing business plans for assigned Independent Delivery Networks (IDN) with a mix of mature and emerging product segments.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Establish and maintain relationships with key decision-makers and influencers within assigned IDNs and hospital systems;
• Proactively build deep executive level relationships with customers across a range of segments, therapeutic areas and business functions, such as the C-suite, supply chain, health economics and quality committees;
• Engage and partner with a range of key stakeholders beyond contracting to developing solutions and services;
• Drive, create and negotiate complex contract structures with IDNs/national aggregation groups;
• Drive integrated product agreements and create business solutions to drive share and deliver growth;
• Develop and implement business plans for targeted accounts;
• Prepare and deliver corporate proposals and branding/positioning presentations to key customers and decision-makers;
• Work closely with corporate contract management and legal staff to ensure all contracts meet internal management and legal requirements;
• Partner and assist all sales team counterparts in the development, implementation and management of strategic initiatives within targeted accounts and geography;
• Meet or exceed annual sales objectives for assigned accounts by mobilizing people to action across a multi-line organization, catalyzing growth and exerting broad influence across a diverse set of business unit leaders;
• Influence organizational thinking on evolving healthcare landscape and partner with customers and key stakeholders to navigate systems e.g. healthcare reform, distribution channel consolidation, etc.;
• Proactively keep the broader organization updated and informed; both account business planning and progress post implementation;
• Optimize account management by leveraging sales ops data, supporting colleagues and the full range of Abbott’s capabilities (inside sales team, marketing, etc.).

SUPERVISORY/MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES

Candidate will report to the Vice President, Enterprise Accounts and will network and work collaboratively with Enterprise Account and Business Unit peers in a matrixed environment.  This role is an individual contributor role and does not have direct supervisory or management responsibilities.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required

• Bachelor’s degree required.  Advance degree preferred;
• Minimum 7 years experience in medical device sales and/or corporate contracting is required.

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