Business Development Manager, Surgical Operating Room Sales

Medela LLC

Business Development Manager, Surgical Operating Room Sales

Individual will need to be located in Chicago due to business need.

The position will also require traveling to surrounding states.

• Do you have medical device sales experience in the surgical operating room?
• Are you a proactive hunter who also knows how to maintain accounts for future business?
• Do you have experience selling to numerous call points in the hospital?

Medela is seeking a Business Development Manager, Surgical Operating Room Sales

This position is responsible for selling Cardiothoracic (CT) and Professional Vacuum Systems (PVS) product lines to a variety of clinical and medical customers across numerous call points, with the primary being in (Hospitals) Acute Care Centers, establishing relationships with physicians and working with national thought leaders in this therapeutic area.

This position will be selling medical devices in the surgical operating room.

What We Offer our Business Development Manager, Surgical Operating Room Sales

• Excellent salary and bonus potential
• Comprehensive benefits plan, which is affordable to our employees
• 401K with match
• Pension Plan
• 16-week Paid Parental Leave
• Generous PTO package, including 14 paid holidays
• A great place to work!

Education / Experience Requirements- Business Development Manager, Surgical Operating Room Sales

• Bachelor’s degree (B.S. / B.A.) from a four-year college or university
• Minimum five years of related experience in sales in a hospital setting.
• Surgical sales experience is required, preferably in the field of thoracic / cardiac surgery field
• Experience with SAP and Salesforce.com will be considered an additional asset
• Experience working in an environment with global objectives
• Up to 75% Travel
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to manage multiple conflicting priorities
• Must meet vendor credentialing / compliance demands of accounts within a given territory and must satisfy the account’s drug screening requirements, including but not limited to screening for marijuana use, regardless of whether the use of marijuana is legal under applicable state law.

Position Responsibilities- Business Development Manager, Surgical Operating Room Sales

• Identify and close new account opportunities in the hospital / acute care segment to increase market share within both CT and PVS
• Act as a subject matter expert when aligned to outside partnerships within geographies to ensure performance expectations and collaboration within existing accounts, offering support / guidance as needed
• Increase utilization of existing account base by driving therapeutic use across existing install base
• Identify new opportunities within existing accounts to expand into additional specialty departments and then grow utilization across all
• Utilize professional selling skills to solicit sales of company products
• Seek strategic customers, either known target accounts or new business found by targeted prospecting
• Support and grow existing account base
• Strive continuously to achieve, maintain, and expand contacts within customer organizations
• Make contacts at all levels and with all groups, which might influence current and future buying decisions
• Follow sound time and territory management techniques
• Quarterly, define customers to be visited and maintain call frequency standards
• Plan account, travel, and call strategies
• Pre-plan sales calls; review background information, set call objectives, and define selling strategies
• Submit regular objectives, action plans, and sales projections
• Provide field sales service and training to all accounts in assigned territory
• Service includes solving problems, assisting customers, and ensuring their satisfaction with our products, including technical advice on the use of products, delivery considerations, quality control, invoicing, etc.

This is not a job description. More details will be provided regarding the functions of the Business Development Manager, Surgical Operating Room Sales position.

• If you are interested in this opportunity, we are looking forward to receiving your application.
• For this position, we will only consider direct applications / candidates.
• Recruiting Agencies / Firms -Please do not submit candidates. Agency candidates will not be accepted. We appreciate your cooperation.

Our employees are empowered to serve this purpose in a family-owned company that is growing rapidly around the world. We value intensive exchanges, diverse perspectives, and unbureaucratic decisions.

You will have the opportunity to develop at an international level, and witness the direct impact your work has on our company’s success.

Caring has always guided everything we do at Medela. As a family company, you could even say it’s in our DNA. Over the last 60 years, our company has been devoted to the science of making the most delicate form of care simple, intuitive, and effective.

Across different stages of life, our products go beyond form and function. They heal, nurture health, and build bonds building better outcomes through equal parts physics, compassion, engineering, and humanity.

And we have been caring for moms and babies, patients, and healthcare professionals for so long, we’ve turned it into a science.

As an EEO / Affirmative Action Employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sex, protected veteran status, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, HIV / AIDs status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity (transgender status), weight, height or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law or ordinance.