Associate Vice President of National Strategic Accounts
A company has the unique opportunity for a Associate Vice President of National Strategic Accounts to join the Commercial team. This role will lead the company’s efforts to acquire, maintain and expand relationships with Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs), national Integrated Delivery Networks (IDNs), partnerships, regional collaboratives, buying groups and large, multi-location customers.
Key Responsibilities:
- Identifying and acquiring new business through thorough understanding the company’s solution as well as the company’s competitive advantage and evaluating it against market trends and industry needs.
- Developing and executing a sales strategy for new and existing accounts. Provide feedback to teams internally around customer value prop, competitive landscape, etc. Clear strategy and execution for closing deals with large national providers and IDN’s. Clear strategy and execution for expansion within accounts such as the VA. Clear strategy and execution of distribution partners.
- Overseeing sales forecasting for strategic accounts and setting performance goals to align and manage sales pipeline to meet revenue goals.
- Cultivate, enhance and maintain corporate to corporate relationships with key decision makers, partners and strategic targets in prospective and existing accounts, such as Becton Dickinson.
- Outline, prepare and deliver proposals addressing customers’ technical, financial, and operational needs and concerns while achieving positive returns for the customer and the company.
- Taking a leadership role in the new contract development and contract re-sign process with accounts, customers and/or hospitals including the execution of final contracts from beginning to end (negotiation, execution, management). Develop and execute a cohesive GPO contracting strategy.
- Articulates the clinical and economic value proposition clearly, providing customers with an in depth understanding of what patient, clinical and financial benefits are associated with the company’s solution.
- Establishing and maintaining customer and account communications and requirements ensuring solutions meet needs and stated goals of the customer, as well as the company.
- Provides information to senior leadership regarding competitive activity and emerging trends in the industry.
- Working collaboratively with sales leaders, sales teams, account management and clinical education in transitioning early-stage sales and evaluations from conception to implementation.
- Oversight on account procurement, MMT distribution processes and contractual events to protect the based business and continuously drive sales and profit growth.
Knowledge, Experience, Education
- Degree in Business Administration/Marketing strongly preferred.
- Extensive sales success, sales management success, and high-level business to business success including proven experience with national account management across multiple geographies.
- High level ability to build relationships with C-suite/owners/ decision maker.
- Thorough understanding and experience with calling on GPOs, IDNs, etc.
- Demonstrated ability to build awareness of competitive products and activities, with an overall understanding of healthcare operations.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to develop and present comprehensive reports. Ability to have difficult conversations when warranted (internal and external).
- Ability to create customer relationships built on trust and to be perceived as a consummate professional that possesses the ability to deliver on commitments.
- Demonstrated ability to synthesize facts and insights into concrete, actionable recommendations.
- Industry legal and compliance knowledge.
- Ability to travel up to 70%.
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