Account Executive - St. Louis

The Account Executive (AE) will drive the sales of products for the assigned market territory. The AE is responsible for developing longstanding, productive relationships between LINET Americas and healthcare facilities in defined area. Works closely with clinical and service teams to provide leadership to develop and implement comprehensive sales strategy for LINET Americas’ products and programs.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include, but are not limited to those listed below:

• Deliver strong sales and margin pipeline within the territory to exceed budget.
• Develop and execute strategies to build share of customer and long-term relationships within the territory, and continually grow our customers’ understanding of LINET Americas’ product and service offerings.
• Build LINET brand and image in marketplace through positive interactions and a high level of professionalism with key contacts in the territory.
• Successfully execute sales and marketing initiatives, and actively contribute to their development.
• Convert share of customer spending from incumbent suppliers to LINET Americas, prospecting, negotiating, quoting and closing sales, personal marketing and time management.
• Commit to excellence and quality with a special focus on rapid response to our customers. Drive the generation of new sales across products to health care providers embracing a solutions sell proposition.
• Understand the detailed functionality and benefit offering of each product, how each product is best applied to meet emergent customer needs, benefits the products will provide to both the patient and care givers, and an ability to articulate an economic benefit for the hospital.
• Define an overall strategy on an annual basis to drive sales growth in assigned territory.
• Demonstrate an effective understanding of competitive action in the assigned territory and work to develop a plan to address opportunity areas.
• Prepare analysis for, and development of, an overall package for new sales. Draw on resources from clinical areas for detailed explanation to customer of the product’s applications and benefits and for final development of a needs-based sales deal.
• Lead the efforts of sales specialists and services personnel to drive new sales as well as on-going customer satisfaction.
• Oversee the installation of new products once they are delivered to the customers – ensure the products have been installed, provide basic training, and follow-up to ensure customers are satisfied.
• Maintain on-going relationships with customers to ensure maintenance of current base as well as growth of new sales with the healthcare provider.
• Build LINET Americas relationships throughout all levels of the hospital with various departments to help expand our account presence.

This position does not have direct employee supervisory responsibility. Will provide leadership to clinical and service teams to meet territory goals.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The items listed below are representative of the characteristics that are necessary to perform in this assignment. MUST-HAVE:

• “Hunter” mentality; ability to scope and acquire new business with lean resources
• High level of integrity and strength of character.
• Results-oriented – proven capital sales performance focused on delivering results that exceed the company’s expectations.
• Learning agility and ability to adapt and adjust quickly based on emergent needs from the business.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills – ability to effectively deal with and manage a variety of strong personalities within the workplace, and the ability to lead by example.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• Excellent strategic planning capabilities.
• A strong propensity for growing and developing a business with entrepreneurial characteristics
• Effective influencing skills – adept at ability to understand the needs of, and influence personnel ranging from nurses to C-level decision makers.
• Strong business acumen to enable selling to senior-level health care administrative personnel, structure sales deals, and reach…