**Job Description Summary**: Great opportunity for an experienced Territory Sales professional to join our Specimen Management portfolio, within our Life Sciences across NSW & ACT. Come and join a market leader in the specimen collection.
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**Job Description Summary**
The role of the Territory Manager will be to sell and support the Specimen Management portfolio across NSW & ACT. This role will be vital to the sales and marketing execution through technical selling, problem solving, in-servicing, training, education, and face-to-face interactions. The role will also build strong relationships with key customers, provide education and technical support including attendance at trade displays and industry events.
**Responsibilities**:
- Achievement of revenue, gross profit, and market share targets for the Specimen Management (SM) portfolio in your territory
- Develop and execute territory & account strategies and plans aligned to the Specimen Management ANZ marketing plan.
- Maintain responsibility for all accounts in the specified territory.
- Provide market intelligence reports e.g., competitive activity, product assessment & informal market surveys.
- Demonstrate technical knowledge of Specimen Management to support the sales efforts.
- Establish and maintain working relationships with each customer account to monitor customer service and support, and potential sales opportunities.
- Serve as the customer point of contact for technical related queries.
- In alignment with the business strategy, provide product training, clinical procedure training and technical assistance to customers as required, utilising relevant educational and training resources.
- Tailor, plan for and coordinate education programs to meet individual customer requirements to support product trials and implementations. Engage internal and external stakeholders to deliver on plan.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of prevailing pathology practices, scientific discoveries and emerging competitor technology pertaining to their respective product portfolios.
- Demonstrate the use and advantage of the technology, conduct product demonstrations and evaluations with prospective customers.
- Contribute to tender submissions by providing technical/customer information as required.
- Compliance to SFDC guidelines including documentation of events and single sales objectives.
- Spend 80% minimum in the field working with the key accounts building and maintain up-to-date understanding of the customer organization - its businesses, people and future initiatives.
Additional Remarks
- The role demands an ability to impart technical and clinical information while maintaining presence and vitality within the training and clinical environment.
- The person who functions in this role must have tenacity and be highly self-motivated. This person will also demonstrate self-learning and be abreast of current issues in the health care arena.
- As part of the Sales and Clinical team this person needs to have a good sense of the commercial picture and the desire to be part of a team as well as a flexible approach to satisfying customer needs.
**Preferred Requirements**:
- Strong sales experience with a proven track record of success (Essential)
- Excellent communication and organization skills
- Results oriented and highly motivated to succeed.
- Business acumen and commercial awareness are desirable qualities.
- High level of relevant technical competence and clinical experience.
- Ability to deal with multiple priorities and short timelines from time to time. Must be able to work with the Specimen Management team to set and manage appropriate customer expectations.
- Demonstrated ability in matching and delivering the appropriate level of in-servicing / support with the value of a business opportunity.
- Demonstrated competence in computer literacy with knowledge of MS Office and Outlook
- Problem solving ability and demonstrated examples of innovative solutions.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills required.
- Ability to interpret and maximize use of clinical data.
- Excellent presentation skills
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