Business Development Representative (NY, MA, VT, NH, ME)

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Business Development Representative (NY, MA, VT, NH, ME)

Working at Abbott
At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.

• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.

• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution.

• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.

• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.

• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity
This position supports our RMDx (Rapid Diagnostics) Informatics, Diagnostics Division. We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision-making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people. 

The Business Development Representative is a point-of-care software sales professional that’s highly skilled at driving exponential growth in their territory through closing new business and expanding existing business.  Responsible for full stack selling of the RALS product in all segments, including Hospitals, POLs, Clinics, Urgent Cares, Retail Pharmacies, for RMDx (Rapid Diagnostics) Informatics.  Works across multiple stakeholders including c-suite, expediting complex decisions to quick wins. Self-starter who can develop opportunities with brand new customers, develop and deploy best practices, identify new customer insights to drive business, and deliver above expectations. Territory for this role is NY, MA, VT, NH, and ME.

What You’ll Work On

• Builds and understands their assigned territory’s total available market, prospects high potential accounts, identifies pipeline opportunities, moves opportunities through the funnel to win new business

• Responsible for driving profitable revenue and closing opportunities within territory by initiating, developing and/or delivering unique solutions that result in improved customer outcomes and benefits Abbott, ensures all commitments are met.

• Investigates and understands assigned strategic accounts and their business environment including goals, objectives, strategies and competitive situation.

• Identifies industry trends and changing market regulations and understands impact on strategic accounts.

• Maintains a detailed understanding of customer decision makers and influencers, builds and preserves customer relationships to leverage in driving new sales and expanding existing business in the hospital space into decentralized locations in collaboration with the Centralized Informatics Account Manager.

• Proactively identifies opportunities or acts upon previously identified opportunities to prepare and deliver account-specific Abbott value proposition resulting in positive action.

• Acts as an internal advocate for the customer, cultivates Abbott internal relationships and leverages to drive business objectives.

• Identifies and facilitates cross-selling and up-sell opportunities.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree

• 5+ year’s work experience required

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of sales experience with proven ability to lead a sales cycle and design a winning solution.

• Minimum of 5 years track record with demonstrated success in informatics, data analytics, and lean process improvement in the Diagnostics industry preferred.

• BS in Business, Life Sciences, Engineering or related technical discipline.

• Proven success as an expert in all aspects of value-based solution selling and ability to work in cross-functional teams to meet clearly defined objectives that benefit the company and customer.

• Strong business planning process and attention to detail, strong Microsoft Office and CRM skills

• Proven sales support experience in large IDNs.

•  Leadership experience, including managing client expectations, multi-disciplinary team, and meeting scope/schedule/budget.

• Fully conversant in consultative selling techniques and methodologies.

• Collaborative enterprise thinking.

• Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills; Willingness to work in cross-functional teams.

• Ability to develop and champion new ideas and approaches.

• Working knowledge and skill set to guide discussions for laboratory informatics products.

• Maintain a superior level of knowledge of the applications related to Company products and of the business needs of multi-hospital organizations to assure effective representation in the marketplace.

• Demonstrates commitment to the development, implementation and effectiveness of ARDx Informatics’ Quality Management System per ISO, FDA and other regulatory agencies.

• Obtain certification within the Vendor Credentialing requirements by following current immunizations, required training, background checks and competency assessments.

• Perform other duties and projects as assigned.

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Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: https://abbottbenefits.com/

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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