Physician Lab Sales Specialist - North Carolina

Key Responsibilities

• Drive sales growth by promoting Henry Schein's exclusive laboratory solutions, including instrumentation, reagents, consumables, and point-of-care testing.
• Deliver strategic account plans focused on maximizing revenue, improving penetration across specialties, and retaining top-tier customers.
• Negotiate multi-year reagent rental agreements and instrument placements within physician labs.
• Partner with Field Sales Consultants (FSCs), Inside Sales Consultants (ISCs) and Executive Selling Teams (BDE / SGE) to coordinate customer strategy, maximize wallet share, and expand territory reach.
• Build trusted advisor relationships with physicians, lab directors, administrators, and decision-makers across multiple care settings, including Physician Office Labs (POLs), Urgent Care Centers, Large Group Practices, Community Health Centers, Integrated Delivery Networks (IDNs).
• Conduct diagnostic workflow analyses to uncover opportunities for upgrading instrumentation, consolidating vendors, and improving reimbursement potential.
• Target new accounts through data-driven prospecting.
• Maintain deep knowledge of the CLIA regulatory landscape (waived, moderate, and high complexity testing environments).
• Monitor competitive activity and market shifts to inform strategy and capitalize on white-space opportunities.
• Serve as a laboratory diagnostics subject matter expert to internal teams, offering product expertise.

Specific Knowledge & Skills

• Strategic, solution-oriented sales approach. Demonstrated ability to meet or exceed revenue and unit targets.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
• Experience selling into physician office labs, urgent care centers, Large Group Practices and IDNs preferred.
• Prior experience collaborating within cross functional teams to achieve multi-channel growth preferred.
• Demonstrated success exceeding quotas and driving territory growth in competitive markets.
• Proven ability to close both transactional consumables sales and longer-cycle moderate complexity placements.
• Familiarity with reagent rental models, CLIA compliance, and reimbursement frameworks.
• Strong prospecting and territory management skills.

General Skills & Competencies

• Excellent understanding of industry practices
• Strong proficiency with tools, systems, and procedures
• Excellent planning/organizational skills and techniques
• Excellent independent decision making, analysis and problem solving skills
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent presentation and public speaking skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent conflict resolution skills and ability to deliver difficult messages
• Ability to build partnerships at all levels within the company
• Good negotiating skills
• Resolve complex issues in effective ways
• Project management, consultative skills and ability to manage a budget
• Specialist in multiple technical and/or business skills
• Ability to cultivate and develop lasting internal and external customer relations

Work Experience

Typically 7 or more years of increasing responsibility and complexity in terms of any applicable professional experience.

Preferred Education

Typically a Bachelor's Degree or global equivalent in related discipline. Master's degree or global equivalent preferred. May hold two or more industry certifications.

Travel / Physical Demands

This position requires extensive travel within the designated territory. (Minimum 50% travel is not unusual) This position will be working in a home office environment, utilizing typical office equipment.