Job Description Summary

Job Description

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Associate Account Executive – Parata Health Systems

Job Title: Associate Account Executive – Parata Health Systems
Territory:   West Region: WI, IN, IL, MO, AR, KS
 
Summary:

The Associate Account Executive is responsible for driving sales and services to existing customers as well as prospecting for new business. They are responsible for enhancing customer value and satisfaction by aligning complex product solutions and services with key customer initiatives. Additional responsibilities include building and maintaining relationships with key decision makers or potential influencers; and managing a longer sales cycle.

What is expected of you for success in your role:

• Demonstrates advanced knowledge of BD and customer industry, including key competitors, terminology, technology, trends, challenges, reimbursement, and government regulation; demonstrates advance knowledge of how BD offerings match with customers' unique business needs.

• Maintains balance in all areas of the pipeline, ensuring consistent sustainable results; manages pipeline independently within own area of responsibility.

• Creates and implements an opportunity plan independently which drives consistent results.

• Consistently applies all resources available within own business unit and frequently involves other business units in consistently implementing the Solution Sales Process

What is expected of you and others at this level in Direct Sales:

• Applies knowledge of the customer's business to develop optimal solutions.

• Proactively and with a regular cadence demonstrates to the customer the defined value of partnering with BD both pre- and post-sales.

• Effectively negotiates and collaborates with the customer and colleagues to influence support for mutually beneficial outcomes and achieve consensus.

• Builds and sustains relationships founded on trust with internal and external customers and ensures customer satisfaction and loyalty.

• Focus on sales strategy and execution to include:

  • Responsible for any facility wide transactions, including expansion orders for the dispensing and infusion solutions.

  • Owns alternate site activities in the territory.

  • Identifies and qualifies new sales opportunities and develops plans for introducing new solutions through collaborative relationships.

  • Work directly with national core team on customer projects, customer quotes, and strategic planning needs.

• Performs special projects and other duties as assigned.

• Organization: (A) Completes all paperwork on time and thoroughly; (B) Keeps accurate up-to-date account records; (C) Utilizes funnel to set goals and target accounts.

• Knows and effectively uses selling presentations as well as standard answers to objections.

• Recognizes need for continual training.  To upgrade knowledge of trends (business, technological, sociological), sales skills, promotion techniques, information on new product, sales forecast ability.

• Plans sales calls on a continuous basis, organizes time for effective coverage of territory, elimination of needless driving.  A sales call plan is to be used.

• Develops thorough knowledge of company policies, ability to interpret them to customers and prospects.

• Maintains the company car in a clean, orderly, and serviceable condition.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree required.

• 1-3 years successful medical equipment sales (capital & software is preferred)

• Experience working with Pharmacy, IT as call points.

• Ability to manage a long sal