Territory Manager, Structural Heart - TEER (Cincinnati, OH)

Abbott; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Abbott is seeking a Territory Manager to support our MitraClip division in the United States. This field-based role focuses on driving sales, identifying opportunities, and building strong clinical relationships with hospitals and physicians.

You will coordinate with regional directors, negotiate contracts, and align market strategies with company objectives to achieve annual sales goals. The position offers the chance to work across cardiovascular solutions, contributing to improved patient

Responsibilities

• Sells products by scheduling sales calls to meet current and potential customers to meet sales objectives.
• Develops and implements sales strategies by analyzing product, competition, and pricing needs.
• Identifies key accounts and decision makers to drive revenue in assigned territory.
• Observes procedures in labs and ORs to learn clinician needs.
• Establishes pricing packages with Abbott Vascular to address customer needs.
• Builds relationships with hospital personnel and other departments to expand contacts.
• Educates customers on product usage through presentations and demos.
• Keeps clinical and technical knowledge current via product training.
• Monitors managed care trends and competitor activity to inform strategy.

Job description

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 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 business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life through the design and provision of device and management solutions for the treatment of Structural Heart disease. We aim to lead the markets we serve by requiring the solutions we offer customers provide an improved benefit/risk profile as compared to existing standards of care; a performance threshold that by definition, guides and ensures the productive output of our engineering, business development, and clinical research efforts result in outcomes that advance the standard of care.

The Territory Manager is a field-based position supporting our MitraClip division, and is responsible for ensuring that the assigned territory meets or exceeds sales objectives. The Territory Manager will w ork with their Regional Director to identify and evaluate market opportunities and sales potential and to establish and achieve annual sales objectives in assigned territory. They will coordinate activities with clinical consultants and negotiate contracts with external customers. This role keeps the company informed of market dynamics and competitive activity.

What You’ll Work On

• Sells products by scheduling sales calls to meet with current and potential customers to fulfill revenue and unit growth objectives assigned by company on a monthly/quarterly/annual basis.
• Develops and implements sales strategies by determining the relevant factors (e.g., product, competition and pricing needs) of existing and potential accounts to effectively promote the company's products to appropriate hospital personnel and physicians.
• Develops action plans (i.e., weekly, quarterly, monthly) by analyzing quarterly and monthly sales figures and reports identifying the needs of particular accounts and discussing issues with regional manager to help the organization achieve its sales goals.
• Identifies key accounts, health care professionals, and business issues that have greatest effect on use of company products by meeting with existing and potential customers to identify their clinical needs, goals and constraints related to patient care.
• Observes actual procedures in the labs and operating rooms of hospital accounts to gain insight into the characteristics and specific needs of each physician and each member of the lab staff.
• Establishes pricing packages by working with relevant Abbott Vascular personnel to establish price points that address specific customer's needs while satisfying company guidelines and policies.
• Develops relationships with hospital personnel (e.g. through casual conversation, meetings, participation in conferences) to make new contacts in other departments within hospital and to identify key purchasing decision makers in order to facilitate future sales.
• Strengthens customer relationships by performing sales support activities (e.g. internal and external customer training, VIP trips, orientations, launches, and updates).
• Builds networks of contacts on behalf of company to stimulate interest in company's products by attending and participating in trade shows, educational conferences, and seminars.
• Educates external customers on the merits and proper clinical usage of company products by giving presentations and demonstrations using a wide variety of formats and platforms (e.g., slides, transparencies, manuals) to secure purchasing commitments.
• Maintains clinical and technical expertise by attending company product training sessions.
• Assesses trends in managed care, competitors' strategies, and new product development by monitoring internal (e.g., sales growth, product mix, and pricing trends) and external indicators (e.g., competitors' act