Business Development Representative, Informatics - Texas

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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Working at Abbott
At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your 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.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with a 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 worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

Our Point of Care diagnostic portfolio spans key health and therapeutic areas, including infectious disease, cardiometabolic, informatics, and toxicology.  We are seeking a Business Development Representative, Informatics based in Texas. This role focuses on point-of-care software sales and requires a proven ability to drive significant growth by closing new business and expanding existing accounts.

The position is responsible for full-cycle sales of the RALS product across all segments, including hospitals, POLs, clinics, urgent care centers, and retail pharmacies for Rapid Diagnostics Informatics (RMDx). The ideal candidate will work with multiple stakeholders, including C-suite executives, to accelerate complex decisions into quick wins. This is a self-starter role that involves developing new customer relationships, implementing best practices, uncovering insights to drive business performance, and consistently delivering results that exceed expectations.

Responsibilities

• Builds and understands their assigned territory’s total available market, prospects high potential accounts, identifies pipeline opportunities, moves opportunities through the funnel to win new business
• Responsible for driving profitable revenue and closing opportunities within territory by initiating, developing and/or delivering unique solutions that result in improved customer outcomes and benefits Abbott, ensures all commitments are met.
• Investigates and understands assigned strategic accounts and their business environment including goals, objectives, strategies and competitive situation.
• Identifies industry trends and changing market regulations and understands impact on strategic accounts.
• Maintains a detailed understanding of customer decision makers and influencers, builds and preserves customer relationships to leverage in driving new sales and expanding existing business in the hospital space into decentralized locations in collaboration with the Centralized Informatics Account Manager.
• Proactively identifies opportunities or acts upon previously identified opportunities to prepare and deliver account-specific Abbott value proposition resulting in positive action.
• Acts as an internal advocate for the customer, cultivates Abbott internal relationships and leverages to drive business objectives.
• Demonstrates commitment to the development, implementation and effectiveness of ARDx Informatics’ Quality Management System per ISO, FDA and other regulatory agencies.
• Identifies and facilitates cross-sell and up-sell opportunities
• Maintain a superior level of knowledge of the applications related to Company products and of the business needs of multi-hospital organizations to assure effective representation in the marketplace.

Additional Competencies

• Product Expertise - Will spend the time and energy to learn and become proficient on the huge ARDx (Abbott Rapid Diagnostics) Informatics portfolio of diagnostic products. 
• Customer Focus – Is dedicated to meeting expectations and requirements of i