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Status: Regular, Full Time

Territory: Ontario

Responsibilities:

• Mapping influence chain from end user to funding, and developing key relationship within this chain to bring innovative solutions that distance Abbott Medical from the competition.
• Ability to critically discuss finance, cost-analysis, value savings to senior level customers—including hospital CEOs & Provincial Administrators, and using these discussions to find and develop solutions that expand Abbott Medical’s leadership position within Canada’s interventional cardiology market place.
• Ability to identify and develop relationships with key / influential end users—physicians. More importantly, ability to leverage these relationships into innovative solutions that meet unmet clinical and economic needs, thereby separating Abbott Medical from the competition.
• Identifies industry trends and changing market regulations and understands impact on strategic account.
• Maintains a detailed understanding of a consolidated customer decision maker and influencer; builds and preserves customer relationships to leverage new sales and protect AV business.
• Identifies opportunities or acts upon previously identified opportunities to prepare and deliver account-specific Abbott Medical value proposition resulting in positive action.
• Understands, analyzes and accurately interprets key financial performance indicators for strategic accounts and how Abbott’s solutions will impact targeted financial objectives.
• Negotiates contracts resulting in long-term commitments.
• Provides leadership and direction regarding all Abbott interactions with strategic accounts.
• Integrates information from ongoing business analysis and assessment into a multi-year plan and leads through persuasion and personal influence an internal ‘selling’ team to develop an actionable account strategy with short-term tactics to achieve desired results.
• Acts as an internal advocate for the customer; cultivates Abbott internal relationships and leverages to drive business objectives.
• Works cross-divisionally to develop a “One Abbott” approach to key customers.
• Operate the CRM (OneForce customer relationship management) system and ensure information is available with the company on a timely and accurate manner – this includes:

• Entering and maintaining contact details, include tasks, events and managing appointments.
• Record customer interactions giving the company the ability to track performance and productivity based on information logged within the system.
• Keep accurate market share information and update it on a monthly basis.
• Analyze the territory/market’s potential, track sales and status reports.

Required Education and Experience:

• Completed Bachelor’s degree is required.
• Proven sales experience at executive level selling broad and complex product lines for a minimum of 3 years required.
• Proven ability to build long term strategic and senior level relationships and demonstrated capability to uncover a large complex organization’s strategic long term plan and short term tactics and translate into a winning solution.
• Proven success as a resource in all aspects of value-based, solution selling and ability to work in cross-functional teams to meet clearly defined objectives that benefit the company and customer.
• Executive level business and financial acumen.
• Strong team leadership skills and knowledge of all products and services.
• Strong negotiation skills.
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Strong internal and external networking skills with robust inter-personal skills that will develop and enhance long term relationships.

Required Skills and Abilities:

• Build and maintain good relationships with customers, team and other colleagues/management.
• Take action to achieve goals (proactive/shows initiative).
• Constantly seeking out new ways to improve processes (innovative).
• Sense of urgency and ability to meet tight deadlines.
• Analytical and problem solving skills.
• Demonstrate a strong personal capacity for learning new aspects of the business and encourage others to do the same.
• Think independently and challenge status quo.
• 15% travel within Canada.

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