Key Account Manager, Clinical

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Position Summary:

Responsible for supporting existing accounts with commercial clinical expertise and growing new business establishing customer relationships and achieving sales quotas.

Responsibilities:

Support growth in volume and revenue with existing commercial customers

• Develop deep understanding of customers business and execute customer development action plans
• Track and report key competitor activities across customer types analyzing the commercial market (e.g. reference labs specialty labs) particularly in their territory its developments and foresee future trends
• Understand and monitor the priorities and meet full set of needs of key accounts across applications. Identify opportunities to expand to additional applications increase share of wallet gains by driving cross and upsell across core products
• Effectively work with commercial clinical customers to propose the best cost-per-sample solutions by considering comprehensive business model requirements associated with workftow reimbursement new financing models etc.
• Create and maintain effective customer relationships building toward deeper relationships with specifically targeted key accounts

• Maintain breadth of current knowledge across product portfolio and clinical sequencing markets to successfully consult and develop strategic selling positions
• Demonstrate to prospective customers ability to identify which applications assays and protocols can increase customer utilization

Create update and execute all key account programs:

• Develop and execute medium and long-term strategy for key accounts setting objectives with management
• Contribute to companys direct marketing capabilities by continuously submitting customer/contract information into database and report feedback and engagement activities to CRM
• Evaluate successes risks and opportunities of programs and formulate plans to address these
• Review account progress and objectives on monthly basis conducting business review with key customers
• Forecast potential sales/referrals in key accounts and contribute to companys direct marketing capabilities by continuously submitting customer/contract information into database

Develop and maintain a long-term strategic relationship with customer:

• Develop and nurture business relationships to engage key decision makers in a dialogue to understand their needs/expectations and demonstrate how lllumina solutions are best positioned to address customer needs
• Collect customer feedback and taking action when needed coordinating across organization resources needed to support the customer consistent with commercial

Listed responsibilities are an essential but not exhaustive list of the usual duties associated with the position. Changes to individual responsibilities may occur due to business needs.

Requirements:

• Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience
• Strong sales technical and product expertise with extensive experience and a proven track record in Clinical/Life Sciences Sales
• Strong technical acumen in areas of next generation sequencing diagnostic and regulatory knowledge reimbursement landscape
• Possesses strong project management planning analytical skills and knowledge of CRM software platform
• Ability to drive towards clearly defined sales targets
• Understanding of healthcare industry standards reimbursement guidelines and environments
• Experience in executive-level customer and clinician engagement with commercial clinical customers
• Ability to engage with full set of stakeholders within commercial clinical customers including department heads lab managers
• Team player with high self-drive to succeed
• Experience with international and local channels; understanding of regional specifics and regional regulatory landscape

All listed requirements are deemed as essential functions to this position; however business conditions may require reasonable accommodations for additional task and responsibilities.

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