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A Day in the Life
At Medtronic the Area Manager Deep Brain Stimulation will manage territory based business and growth by initiating supporting and developing strategic implanting centers and assisting in developing key referral networks. Act as primary account/implanter relationship contact for assigned territorys customer needs including account level reimbursement responsibility. This position includes coordination of all support activities and development of sales partnerships with distribution alliances.
This is a field based role
Basic Roles and responsibilities:
Sells Neuromodulation implantable devices for specific therapies like DBS SCS SNM and IDD to physicians institutions payors and other appropriate medical staff
Sells the Value Proposition for Medtronic to physicians institutions payors and other appropriate medical staff
Partners with strategic implanting centers to develop the account/implanter practice
Provides product and therapy technical support and service including consultation at strategic management and analysis of sales trends; utilization of appropriate Neuro business partners to present marketing and business plans to accounts for territory development and growth
Maintains a working knowledge of competitive products
Ensures personal understanding of all quality policy/system items that are personally applicable
Follows all work/quality procedures to ensure quality system compliance and high quality work
SALES PROFESSIONAL CAREER STREAM:Typically sales professional individual contributors with direct sales responsibilities. May direct the work of other lower level sales professionals or manage sales processes and / or accounts involving multiple team members. The majority of time is spent establishing and maintaining customer relationships developing new customer relationships implementing sales strategies and closing sales.
DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS
Autonomy:Seasoned sales professional managing large accounts involving multiple team members.
Secures and maintains product distributions and/or services and maintains effective agreements.
Works independently with limited supervision.
Builds a network of relationships.
Organizational Impact:Works to achieve individual sales targets and execute on sales plans by developing new accounts and/or expanding existing accounts expanding market presence and building strong client base.
Has significant impact on achieving departments sales results and may contribute to the development of goals for the department and planning efforts.
Works on one or more large accounts involving multiple team members.
Drives adoption and penetration in accounts.
Innovation and Complexity:Makes improvements of sales processes and tools to enhance performance of the job area.
Recommends changes in account strategy and tactics to achieve sales goals .
Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
Communication and Influence:Influences internal contacts (within the job area) and external suppliers customers and / or vendors regarding policy practices and procedures.
Communicates with external suppliers customers and / or vendors involving advanced negotiation and / or presentations in order to manage relationships and close sales.
Leadership and Talent Management:Normally receives little instruction on day-to-day work general instructions on new assignment.
May be responsible for providing guidance coaching and training to other sales professionals and / or support employees.
May manage large accounts at this level requiring responsibility for the delegation of work and the review of others work product .
Required Knowledge and Experience:Requires advanced knowledge of job area typically obtained through education combined with broad sales experience.
Career-level sales representatives who are fully qualified experienced professionals.
Must Have Minimum Requirements
Bachelor inPharma / Engineering / Science.
PG degree in Business Management is preferred
Required 6 to 10 years of experience
Experience of handling a Concept selling based Therapy
Exceptional interpersonal skills.
Computer literacy including sound knowledge of the MS Office suite of software.
Willing to travel extensively
Ideally demonstrated success in asales function of technical equipment
Nice to Have
Strong Interpersonal skills with focused People/Customer/Result orientation.
Strong grasp on the market and understanding around the complexities competition customer preferences etc
Ability to prioritize and execute as per the needs of the business and the current set of challenges
Strong analytical skills (to understand local markets and customer needs) in order to develop region specific plans strategies and tactics.
Strong leadership and vision assertive and can collaborate with various stakeholders within the organization
Ability to quickly revector and improvise the business model if the current model is not yielding desired results
Physical Job Requirements
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.
Benefits & Compensation
Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits resources and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
About Medtronic
We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission to alleviate pain restore health and extend life unites a global team of 95000 passionate people.
We are engineers at heart putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab to the factory floor to the conference room every one of us experiments creates builds improves and solves. We have the talent diverse perspectives and guts to engineer the extraordinary.
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