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JOB DESCRIPTION:

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

Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life through the design and provision of device and management solutions for the treatment of STRUCTURAL HEART disease.  We aim to lead the markets we serve by requiring the solutions we offer customers to enable outcomes that advance the standard of care.

We are hiring a Regional Sales Director (RSD) for the Structural Heart TAVI team in the Northeast region. This position will report to the US Area Vice President.  The RSD must live in the geography of the region

and may travel in excess of 50% depending on staffing and regional demands.

This role assist’s territory managers and clinical sales specialist to identify and evaluate market opportunities and sales potential to establish and achieve sales and clinical objectives. The Regional Sales Director also leads and coaches the activities of territory managers, clinical sales specialist to develop a high performing team for commercial and clinical trial activity responsibilities. The RSD will meet the authorization training requirement to support TAVI procedures for competent clinical coaching of their team and improved customer interface. Additional leadership responsibilities include assistance with contract negotiation, customer engagement, performance management and the clinical competency development of their direct reports. The RSD will coach on how to proactively support TAVI procedures to achieve safe outcomes as well as drive continuing education within their region to ensure quality and best in class customer support. The RSD will set the sales strategy in their region meeting the franchise goals.

What You’ll Work On

• Support and achieve the regional sales plan.
• Develop a safe learning environment and uncompromised positive team culture.
• Create an entrepreneurial and supportive work environment by providing weekly team calls, discovery workshops, regional meetings, and individual discussions.
• Recruit, onboard, coach for sales and clinical performance and develop their direct reports.
• Foster a diverse workplace that enables all participants to contribute to their full potential in pursuit of organizational objectives and empower the team to assist in the development of the TAVI franchise. Assist individuals with quarterly goals, development plans and provide annual performance reviews.
• Foster proper targeting and drive customer and account engagement planning to advance the commercial sales process.
• Provides accurate sales forecasting and drives TM accountability with forecasting.
• Monitors team compliance with SFDC, Mentor, Power BI, Vablet and other sales process and aides.
• Quarterly field travel with your team visiting customers while ensuring clinical competencies and sales advancement.
• Propose strategies and initiatives to improve the franchise customer focus and support.
• Build strategic cross functional partnerships to further franchise and organizational objectives specifically, marketing, training, enterprise accounts and clinical trial.
• Demonstrates exceptional organizational and operational skills.
• Monitor compliance with company policies and procedures.
• Assist with case support and proctor planning and conflict resolution.
• Annual region budget oversight and compliance.
• Approval of direct report expense reports and address compliance issues as needed.
• Complete vendor credentialing process for hospital access as required.

Required Qualifications

• 2+ years of college education with 10+ years of interventional cardiology/cardiovascular experience or bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of interventional cardiology/cardiovascular experience.
• Proven and documented sales and clinical performance in interventional cardiology/cardiovascular.
• Ability to lead workstreams and initiatives utilizing critical thinking skill sets.
• Ability to provide direction and monitor progress of direct reports clinical and sales objectives, monitor quality, outcomes, and sales performance measures.
• Able to perform this job in a quality system environment. Failure to adequately perform tasks can result in noncompliance with governmental regulations.
• Solutions oriented to problem solve with a fact-based orientation.
• Verification that you will satisfy all vendor credentialing requirements, which may include vaccination for COVID-19.  If you require a medical or religious accommodation from these requirements or if you would like to understand more about these requirements, please advise HR so that we can provide additional information and if needed, we can explore any needed accommodation(s).

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree preferred.
• Prior commercial and clinical trial experience in interventional cardiology/cardiovascular.
• Documented successful leadership experience of sales and clinical teams.
• Prior TAVI industry experience.
• Stronger consideration will be given to candidates with Abbott TAVI experience.

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The base pay for this position is

$113,300.00 – $226,700.00

In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

     

JOB FAMILY:

Sales Force

     

DIVISION:

SH Structural Heart

        

LOCATION:

United States of America : Remote

     

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

     

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

     

TRAVEL:

Yes, 50 % of the Time

     

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

Yes

     

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Continuous standing for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Driving a personal auto or company car or truck, or a powered piece of material handling equipment

     

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

     

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