Job Description Summary

Job Description

We are the makers of possible

BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us—from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year—to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities.

We believe that the human element, across our global teams, is what allows us to continually evolve. Join us and discover an environment in which you’ll be supported to learn, grow and become your best self. Become a maker of possible with us.

About the role:

The Director of National Accounts is accountable for the relationship between BD Parata and its largest customers, responsible for delivering a well-managed and growing business by understanding both the customers’ and BDs business strategies and initiatives, and by selling Parata solutions that bring value to our customers. This position will build and foster strategic relationships with senior leaders at the largest Retail Chain Customers in the US. The successful candidate will orchestrate a large, diverse, internal team that they will lead through influence without authority, and together, deliver meaningful and measurable customer outcomes.

Key responsibilities will include:

The Director of National Accounts oversees the management of current and prospective customers in some of the largest retail pharmacy accounts at the corporate and divisional levels of the organization. Their primary responsibilities include:

• Account Planning and Strategy: Intimately understands the customer’s business strategies and industry direction and generates long-term, agile, and customer-centric plans that align customer and BD Parata business priorities.
• Customer Relationship Development: Owns the overall corporate and divisional relationships, with a focus on C-level engagement, and builds strategic partnerships as a trusted advisor.
• Protect and Grow the Business in Current Customers: Develops and executes effective strategies that increase customer satisfaction, engagement and loyalty resulting in account retention and growth.
• Account Team Leadership:
• Orchestrates Parata team resources to meet and support customer and BD needs.
• Leads the assigned account core and sales teams by fostering an environment of teamwork and accountability.
• Engages across the BD US Region, if needed, to improve coordination and sponsorship.
• Effective Opportunity Management: Seeks both short- and long-term opportunities to ensure effective execution of a 36-month plan for their assigned accounts. Optimizes their pipeline and new opportunities to meet revenue and product penetration growth goals. Emulates high ethics and trust to comply with the BD Way
• Possesses Industry/ Competitive Knowledge: Anticipates key business, marketplace and competitor dynamics and develops and implements strategies that ensure growth, mitigate risk and differentiate BD Parata in the assigned customers.
• Forecasting: Responsible for the 90-day rolling forecast for their assigned accounts.

About you:

• Serves as a Customer Advocate: Serves as an internal advocate on behalf of the customer to functional areas, such as; marketing, platform, support, contracts, and more.
• Engages in Roadmap Planning: Partners with customers to develop aligned technical and product roadmap and garners support and resource allocation for effective implementation.
• Development of Account Engagement Plan: In collaboration with the account team develops a comprehensive engagement plan to ensure corporate, regional, and local contacts/facilities are engaged/contacted on a regular basis in order to maintain/grow relationships.
• Develops Key Influencers: Engages key influencers at the divisional and/or flagship facility levels to ensure their proactive support of BD Parata products and solutions.
• Ensures Value Deliver: partners with clinical and Global Customer Support team members to deliver Quarterly Business Reviews to customer executive teams articulating the value delivered through BD Parata solutions and consults on opportunities for continued improvement.
• Performance: Demonstrated multiple years of over quota performance for current and competitive accounts.
• Pure Competitive Sales Skills: responsible for executing all steps of the sales process in assigned accounts where we do not currently have one or more of our core platforms implemented today.

Education and experience required:

• Bachelor's degree required; graduate degree preferred
• Min 10 years progressively responsible sales experi