Canada, Quebec City

Parttime: 0 hrs a week

Experience: 3 years

Closing: September 20, 2024

Introduction

This remote field-based role with a global healthcare leader manages customer accounts in the Core Diagnostics division to boost profitability, loyalty, and value. As an Account Manager, you'll be the main contact for lab management, collaborating with sales teams, and influencing purchases. You'll drive improvement through business analytics to optimize lab operations while maintaining CRM data integrity, ensuring compliance, and monitoring customer satisfaction within safety guidelines.

What are you going to do 

  • Maintain customer retention and satisfaction through outstanding customer service, proactive support, troubleshooting and ensuring needs are met with workable solutions
  • Build customer loyalty and drive up NPS Score through Follow up and improvement (hot sheets)
  • Manage inter-client relationships and proactively monitor and communicate
  • Manage Customer inventory
  • Carry out lunchtime meetings to demonstrate educational materials and web based learning about new or existing solutions, engaging with all grades of lab staff
  • Drive menu expansion and Value creation (utilization of existing products; new product and new assay applications) based on Menu gap analysis and Instruments Utilization Analysis
  • Ensure price management, and service sales, as well as Free of charge control;
  • Monitor the lifecycle management of products
  • Order and CPR management
  • Contract Life Cycle and Volume commitment Compliance
  • Support lab implementations - works with the team to manage new installations including arranging site surveys, ordering instruments, UPS's, arranging water supply, interfacing,
  • Attend Relevant trade Association meetings, conferences and tradeshows.
  • Ensure instrument analytical turnaround time (Escalations related to uptime/repair/maintenance);
  • Conduct Quarterly customer business review (Commercial and Service KPI reviews);
  • Negotiate and define Service and Reagent contract Extensions and renewals for CC/IA and Hematology instruments and AlinIQ Solutions;
  • Manage customer relationship and thoroughly plan: prepare and follow up customer visits (pre-call plan; post-call notes);
  • Identify customer training requirements
  • Replenish and control inventory
  • Build image and brand in eyes of customer
  • "Sell" or reinforce total solution value offering
  • Collect and transmit VOC (Voice of Customer)
  • Create account specific strategies to retain and grow the business

Essential skills and knowledge 

  • Bachelor's degree required. Life Sciences/ Microbiology / Engineering (Biomedical / Electrical /Mechanical) Medical Technology or Commercial (preferred)
  • 3 to 5 years working in a Laboratory environment performing diagnostics tasks in Chemistry, Pathology, Microbiology or Blood Bank
  • 4+ years performing sales duties including calling on Health Care Professionals / Medical Lab Technologists to achieve sales targets;
  • Experience with Aforce (salesforce.com) use and maintenance (CRM), Power BI Sales
  • Experience interfacing with customers & Strong people management and communication skills;
  • Troubleshooting/problem solving skills
  • Computer skills (word, excel, power point, internet savvy)
  • Shows ability to prioritize independently
  • Negotiation skills, Sales techniques and sales cycles
  • Commitment to customers needs by listening and translating into action items
  • In depth understanding of the Diagnostics laboratory environment including process workflow, equipment maintenance, quality control, result validation and operations;
  • Good understanding of the purchasing process in their territory / province (Group Purchasing
  • Organizations, government approval processes, budget approvals …etc.);
  • Sales process knowledge and Account management experience. Value expansion principle of current installed base understanding
  • Anticipates, identifies and meets internal and external customer needs and requests, negates and resolves conflicts, maintains a professional demeanor, even under stressful conditions;
  • Displays effective oral and written communication to accomplish business goals and foster building customer rapport and relationships
  • Effectively Manages Time: Prioritizes tasks and defines tasks necessary to meet goals, organizes own activities and time to complete multi-faceted tasks and assignments, manages daily workload related to call documentation.
  • Experience providing technical product application and/or hardware support.

What we offer 

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