
Territory Sales Executive-Detroit, MI
- Detroit, MI
- $100,000-110,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with all pertinent department stakeholders within the acute care/hospital setting to maintain, promote and sell Cepheid's Value Proposition inclusive of all instrumentation and testing applications. These departments may include laboratory, pharmacy, infection control, nursing management, emergency department, risk management and physicians.
- Develop demand for and adoption of new assays and instrumentation within existing and prospective account base to achieve assigned territory goals.
- Coordinate between the customer and Cepheid personnel and for ensuring that all new product and system implementations are executed to meet customer expectations.
- Optimize cycle time by using Salesforce.com (CRM tool) to maintain customer and account activity, to map visibility and drive market share, and to prioritize sales funnel.
- Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of related healthcare sales experience, preferably in laboratory diagnostics, Distribution, clinical laboratory, and/or life science markets OR Master’s degree in field with 3+ years of similar related healthcare sales experience
- Proven sales success, specifically in selling premium-priced products.
- Reside within assigned territory
- Proficient using SalesForce CRM
- Expertise in demand creation for ground-breaking technologies versus replacement technology is a plus.
- Ability to successfully engage multiple call points within the hospital, to include both laboratory and outside-of-the laboratory stakeholders.
- Ability to travel 50%, overnight within sales territory.