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Abbott is seeking a sales professional for its Heart Failure division in the United States. You will drive sales targets for the Ventricular Assist Device portfolio, manage contracts and pricing, and provide clinical guidance to customers.
The role requires extensive travel and collaboration with cross-functional teams to deliver outstanding customer service. The position offers a base pay range and opportunities to advance within a global healthcare leader focused on diagnostics, devices, and
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 122,000 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 family, be your true self and live a full life.
Achieve sales targets as outlined in the SIP and Vital Few. Clinical knowledge of all Abbott Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) system to support cases as needed. Effective and timely management of business process, including customer contract negotiation, price quotes, customer complaints, monthly reports, TAP's, Blue Sheets, Partnership Summary, SFA, RMA, expense management and Concur expense reporting. Effective communication and collaboration with: Territory Team (Clinical, Market Development), Training & Education, Center Development, Reimbursement, Technical Services, Customer Service, Marketing and Field Management Team. Targeted approach to growing your business and achieving sales targets. Demonstrate effective: account assessment, forecasting, and strategic planning utilizing the Strategic Selling Sales Methodology. Ensure customer Satisfaction. Awareness of and adherence to Advamed guidelines. Understanding and application of hospital administration, purchasing and reimbursement policies. Region wide project involvement. Establishes outstanding customer relationships and shows the highest degree of professional behavior at all times. Responsible for initiating account contacts, conducting high level of sales call activity, providing clinical and technical support/guidance to customers. Maintains regular contact with current and potential accounts in the assigned territory. Actively participates in the communication of concepts and ideas, which prove of benefit to the sales and customer support efforts. Prepares territory budget and revenue forecast for approval and inclusion into the annual sales plan. Provides field input into all aspects of the strategic and tactical planning process and submits forward looking projections of sales for internal inventory forecasting. Serves as a corporate liaison working closely with Region Directors, Senior Management, Marketing, Training & Education, Research & Development, Regulatory & Clinical Affairs, Reimbursement, Customer Service, and Technical Service and as appropriate other departments to provide the highest level of service to customers. Monitors and reports on all relevant activity, sales calls, calendar, and sales to objective by account within the assigned geography. Provides necessary input for the timely preparation and submission of formal offers and price quotes to qualified accounts and provides timely and factual feedback on market participant activities within the assigned geography. Completes sales and expense reports as requested by management in a timely manner and in accordance with company policy, maintains planning calendar and completes all additional documentation requested by management on time. Protects and acts responsibly toward all company equipment, confidential information and effectively manages expense budget. Provides support at Tradeshows as requested by management. Immediately reports to Regulatory Affairs and as appropriate Technical Services of any product failures or customer complaints, and provides timely reporting through established processes. Shares concepts and ideas on product improvement and potential new accessories with Research and Development. Performs other duties as assigned by management.
In Abbott’s Heart Failure (HF) business, we’re developing solutions to diagnose, monitor and manage heart failure, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.
Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.
Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity. An equal opportunity employer, Abbott welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.
Abbott is about the power of health. For more than 135 years, Abbott has been helping people reach their potential — because better health allows people and communities to achieve more. With a diverse, global network serving customers in more than 160 countries, we create new solutions — across the spectrum of health, around the world, for all stages of life. Whether it’s next-generation diagnostics, life-changing devices, science-based nutrition, or novel reformulations, we are advancing some of the most innovative and revolutionary technologies in healthcare, helping people live their best lives through better health. The people of Abbott come to work each day with relentless energy, enthusiasm and a promise to enhance the health and well-being of millions of people. They push the boundaries to help manage and treat some of life’s greatest health challenges. We invite you to explore opportunities at Abbott, to see if your talents and career aspirations may fit with our openings.