Account Executive
Thermo Fisher
Summary
Our Account Executives are responsible for the sales of consumable and diagnostic lab supplies and instrumentation within a defined territory. They maintain effective customer relations, develop opportunities for growth within an existing customer base, and assure market penetration and profitability while achieving sales and profit forecasts.
Job description
Key responsibilities will be:
- Lead territory to ensure effective customer relations with physicians, hospitals, lab contacts, retail contacts and other ancillary medical professionals within assigned territory.
- Use available resources to meet customer needs and work effectively with cross-functional team of supplier and internal resources
- Manage the strategic direction for the territory; Develop sales strategies to meet plan and expand business within assigned territory; maintain a pipeline of opportunities to meet or exceed sales objectives
- Perform sales calls and vendor relations with all customers and potential customers in the assigned territory.
- Stay aware of competitor and industry activity and keep informed of new products/services and other general information of interest to customers incorporating this data in the business plan; Introduce new products and services
- Lead pricing within territory to control profitability
- Maintain accurate reporting, records, and files necessary for proper management of territory
- Positively represent Thermo Fisher Scientific at all times throughout customer locations
Keys to Success:
Education
- Bachelor's degree required, preferably in the sciences
Experience
- 5+ years of sales experience, preferably in medical sales, lab, science or healthcare industry, OR relevant experience
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
- Strong interpersonal, oral and written communication, and presentation skills
- Strong negotiation and customer relationship skills.
- Computer proficiency in MS Office and the internet
- Must possess the organizational skills to multi-task and meet deadlines as needed
- Strong industry, healthcare and science background preferred
- Able and willing to travel to customer locations
- Able to pass required vendor credentialing for hospital/lab access.
- Demonstrates the Thermo Fisher values (The Four I's) – Integrity, Intensity, Innovation, and Involvement
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required, preferably in the sciences
- 5+ years of sales experience, preferably in medical sales, lab, science or healthcare industry, OR relevant experience
- Strong interpersonal, oral and written communication, and presentation skills
- Strong negotiation and customer relationship skills
- Computer proficiency in MS Office and the internet
- Organizational skills to multi-task and meet deadlines
- Able and willing to travel to customer locations
- Able to pass required vendor credentialing for hospital/lab access
Benefits
- Medical, Dental & Vision
- Health Incentive Programs
- Employee Assistance Programs
- Family Support Programs
- Commuter Benefits
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Paid Parental Leave
- Accident Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Short-Term Disability
- Long-Term Disability
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Annual Performance Bonus
Company overview
Thermo Fisher Scientific is a global leader in serving science, with annual revenue of approximately $40 billion. The company provides a comprehensive portfolio of analytical instruments, equipment, reagents and consumables, software, and services for research, analysis, discovery, and diagnostics. Their mission is to enable customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer by accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, improving patient diagnostics and therapies, and increasing laboratory productivity. Thermo Fisher serves pharmaceutical and biotech companies, hospitals and clinical diagnostic labs, universities, research institutions, and government agencies worldwide. The company operates through four business segments: Life Sciences Solutions, Analytical Instruments, Specialty Diagnostics, and Laboratory Products and Services.