Sales Specialist, Retail Sales

The Opportunity

The Sales Specialist, Retail Sales is a remote based position supporting Abbott ARDx Consumer Services & Products business. As the Sales Specialist, Retail Sales, you'll have direct sales responsibility to maintain, gain and grow the women's health private label brand (home pregnancy & ovulation tests) at several key strategic retail customers. As part of this responsibility, the Sales Specialist will be responsible for delivering strategic and tactical initiatives that are aligned with both business and customer priorities to achieve customer specific sales and share performance goals. This role will require ongoing identification of growth opportunities and strong collaboration with the customer and internal resources across marketing, finance, supply chain, and global business services. Candidate must possess a high level of comfort sharing strategic proposals with internal and external leadership teams. The candidate must have excellent computer, verbal and written communication skills.

What You'll Work On

• Achieve sales targets through efficient and effective sales cycle and territory management.
• Maintain sales base while closing new business in both new and existing accounts.
• Build relationships with key stakeholders within accounts.
• Conduct ongoing internal and external account business reviews to measure, evaluate and drive sales performance.
• Develop and implement short and long-term sales strategies and tactical business plans.
• Serve as the voice of the customer to internal leadership to help influence/define strategies and short-term launch support plans.
• Leads all customer interactions for respective accounts (new item launches, annual plans, commercial execution).
• Accountable for demand forecasts and lowering controllable costs (e.g. customer fines) for respective accounts.
• Leads supply agreement negotiations, managing cost and assortment discussions to optimize sales performance.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• 2-5 years of sales experience.
• Ability to clearly, concisely and accurately convey communications.
• Ability to form and develop interpersonal, professional relationships.
• Display socially and professionally appropriate behavior.
• Ability to work independently and as a team member.
• Demonstrated initiative and problem-solving skills.
• Analytical and critical-thinking skills.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to prioritize initiatives based on business need.
• Ability to present material to Executive-level management.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge of retail sales acumen and category management.
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written).
• Strong interpersonal / leadership skills.
• Work with Nielsen and IRI data to analyze market trends to effectively develop presentations, provide recommendations and business forecasting.
• Initiative to identify growth drivers and then secure resources to support execution.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office (Teams, Word, Excel and PowerPoint).
• Experience with Power BI.