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Job Type
Full-time Position
Background
Finance and Economics
Management & Business Others
Marketing and PR
Management & Business Others
Marketing and PR
Languages
English
Experience Required
Degree Required
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January 15,2021
Date Posted
Strategic Account Manager
Strategic Account Manager
J&J Medical Netherlands is looking for a Strategic Account Manager. The Strategic Account Manager (SAM) is responsible for achieving sales quota and developing a strategic plan for strategic accounts (7-12 accounts).
The Strategic Account Manager represents the entire range of MD products and services. The SAM will be leading the customer account planning cycle ensuring that customer’s needs and expectations. The SAM is also responsible to build up relationships with the non-clinical stakeholders in the strategic accounts that will lead to value creation partnerships.
Main areas of responsibility / expected results/objectives of the role
- Generating business opportunities within a set of accounts and managing the sales process through to closure of the sale
- Achievement of agreed sales goals
- Generate a sales pipeline, qualifying opportunities, and accurately forecast pipeline
- Establishes productive, professional relationships with the MD sales and marketing organization
- Coordinates the involvement of all internal stakeholders, including support, service, and management resources, in order to meet account performance objectives and customers’ expectations.
- Meets assigned targets for profitable sales volume and strategic objectives
- Proactively leads a MD account planning process to achieve performance objectives, financial
Targets and critical milestones for a one and three-year period.
- Proactively assesses, clarifies, and validates customer needs on an ongoing basis.
- Leads solution development efforts that best address customer needs, while coordinating the involvement of all necessary company personnel.
- Manages contracting, pricing and tendering processes in the assigned accounts
Main leadership commitments involved in the role
- Connect:
- Excellent in understanding customer needs
- Develops strong relationships with key customers and internal partners
- Reviews externally available information, like annual reports of hospitals, industry analysts' commentary, or product testimonials to understand competitive advantages and opportunities.
- Gather feedback & insights from key clinical and non-clinical customers, internal partners. Identify actionable insights to enhance results.
- Be the ‘bridge’ with all internal departments
- Shape:
- Translates insights into actions that challenge the status quo and that reinforce our competitive advantage.
- Determines alternative strategic options
- Dares to take risks aligned with Credo-based decision-making
- Lead:
- Identifies & develops the skills necessary for future success
- Mentors peers or other employees
- Builds an environment supportive of diverse and inclusive thinking and perspectives.
- Develops communication and influence skills to become a high-impact presenter; seeks feedback on skills in this area.
- Deliver:
- Promotes a culture of accountability by improving on current performance and taking responsibility.
- Tries new operational practices that have been successful elsewhere in the company.
- Builds & reinforce a sense of urgency on key projects; helps others understand the criticality of these efforts.
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Analyzes the outcome of recent projects; comes up with lessons learned reviews to improve future efforts and outcomeBusiness Environment and Context
- Create value for clinical and non-clinical stakeholders.
- Price pressure and tender environment demand a value driven approach.
- New and different decision makers and influencers.
- Added value drives the decision-making process of a multiple stakeholder team in our accounts.
Qualifications
Required:
- Master’s degree or equivalent in business experience (economics, statistics or life sciences),
- Being able to think strategically and show strong operational capabilities at the same time.
- A self-motivated, independent thinker that can move deals through the selling cycle
- Strong Negotiation skills
- Strong in data analyses and deriving actionable conclusions
- Experience in project management and process-oriented work
- Strong customer and external environment orientation
- Strong passion and track record for innovation & will to make things happen & deliver
- Ability to connect and lead without formal authority a diverse group of business stakeholders
- Fluent Dutch
- Good written and spoken English (for EMEA collaboration)
- Good working knowledge of the Microsoft office
- Microsoft PowerPoint - – Advanced knowledge
- Proven ability to manage complexity with the entrepreneurial spirit that thrives in ambiguous circumstances
- Driven by results, performance & operational excellence in the job
- Demonstrated enterprise mindset, with ability to influence and collaborate in a global, matrixed environment to achieve business objectives
- Integrity and Credo-based personal leadership
- Self- awareness and adaptability
Preferred:
- Master’s degree
- Experience working for a large multi-national company
- Knowledge of the current market healthcare landscape or environment where solution selling is the key driver
- Experience working for a mid-size or multinational company
Primary Location
Netherlands-Utrecht-Amersfoort-
Organization
Johnson & Johnson Medical BV (7260)
Job Function
Sales
Requisition ID
2105884688W
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