Business Development Representative - Genoa, Louisiana

UnitedHealth Group; New Orleans (LA); On-site; USD 50,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Genoa Healthcare, part of UnitedHealth Group, seeks a Business Representative to promote strategic growth across Louisiana. You will identify leads, close sales, and travel up to 75% to serve mental health and addiction treatment communities.

Territory is Louisiana; must reside within the state and be able to travel. The role involves building relationships, contracting, and coordinating implementation with customers across sites and facilities.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of sales experience or 2+ years of pharmacy experience.
• Proficient with MS Office and general computer skills.
• Willing to travel up to 75% and reside in Louisiana.
• Driver's license and reliable transportation.

Responsibilities

• Maintain successful relations with customers and potential customers by interacting professionally and pro-actively.
• Promote strategic growth by identifying leads and closing transactions; may include expanding mental health and substance use treatment footprints and related sites.
• Attend conferences to maintain relationships with current customers and interact with potential customers.
• Act as a liaison between the company and the customer through contracting and implementation processes.

Skills

Sales experience

MS Office

Pharmacy experience

Travel readiness

Job description

Opportunities with Genoa Healthcare. A career with Genoa Healthcare means you're part of a collaborative effort to serve behavioral health and addiction treatment communities. We do more than just provide medicine: we change lives for the better. People with serious mental or chronic illness - and those who care for them - have moving stories, and at Genoa we become their voice, their partner. Working as part of a coordinated care team, we partner with community-based providers and others to ensure that people with complex health conditions get the right medications and are able to follow their treatment plans. Our personalized services - in-clinic pharmacies, medication management and more - are leading the way to a new level of care.

Genoa is a pharmacy care services company that is part of Optum and UnitedHealth Group's family of businesses. We are part of a leading information and technology-enabled health services business dedicated to making the health system work better for everyone. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

We seek a Business Representative in the state of Louisiana, who, under the supervision from the Director, Business Development, will promote strategic growth for Genoa by identifying leads and closing sales transactions.

Territory will be the state of Louisiana. Candidate must live within the territory. Must be willing to travel 75% of the time, including some overnights when needed.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Maintain successful relations with customers and potential customers by interacting professionally and pro-actively
• Promote strategic growth for the company by identifying leads and closing transactions; may include concentration on growing mental health and substance use treatment facility footprint, residential/group home consumer base,
• ACT/FACT teams, and other opportunities including hospital discharge planning and CMC sites
• Attend conferences in an effort to maintain relationships with current customers, identify leads, and interact with potential customers
• Act as a liaison between our company and the customer base through contracting and implementation process

You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• 2+ years of sales experience (Proven solid selling skills) OR 2+ years pharmacy experience
• Understanding of computer and related products; knowledge of PC skills including use of standard MS Office applications
• Willing or ability to travel up to 75% of the time
• Live in Louisianaor willing to self-relocate
• Driver's License and access to reliable transportation

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven ability to establish and maintain relationships
• Proven solid presentation skills

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $50,000 - $115,000 annually based on full-time employment. This role is also eligible to receive bonuses based on sales performance. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and help make the health system work better for everyone. Together, we are shaping the future of healthcare by harnessing technology and innovation to make care simpler to navigate, more affordable and more connected for the people we serve. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcomed, valued, heard and respected, empowering people to bring their authentic selves to work and strengthening our collective impact through diverse talents, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.

UnitedHealth Group and its affiliated brands are an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.

UnitedHealth Group and its affiliated brands are a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.