Territory Manager

• Promotes and sells Medtronics products and services within an assigned geographic area and /or specific customer accounts to meet or exceed sales targets.
• Responsible for developing, building, and strengthening long-term relationships with stakeholders including distributors and healthcare professionals.
• Responsible for pursuing leads, assessing needs and providing product services to maximize the benefits derived from Medtronics products and/or services.
• Promotes and establishes education of the companys products and/or services.
• Conducts market research including customers and competitors activities.
• Implements market development plans/strategies and changes as needed.
• Communicates customer feedback on new products and/or modifications to existing products or applications to internal stakeholders including R&D, Operations and Marketing.

SALES PROFESSIONAL CAREER STREAM: Typically sales professional individual contributors with direct sales responsibilities. May direct the work of other lower level sales professionals or manage sales processes and / or accounts involving multiple team members. The majority of time is spent establishing and maintaining customer relationships, developing new customer relationships, implementing sales strategies and closing sales.

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS

Autonomy: Established and productive sales professional managing multiple small to mid-size accounts.

Sells products and/or services to a group of clients and identifies new and potential customers.

Works independently with general supervision .

Builds relationships.

Organizational Impact: Works to achieve individual sales targets within product area and/or account by selling products/ services, developing new accounts and/or expanding existing accounts.

Has a direct impact on achieving department s sales results.

May help to set objectives or goals for individual or team accounts .

Works on larger, moderately complex accounts or have a small or medium-sized quota/territory.

Understands market landscape, marketing and pricing structure, more influence on pricing structures.

Works with sales, marketing and finance to structure complex contracts.

Innovation and Complexity: Makes adjustments or recommends enhancements in sales processes to solve problems or improve effectiveness of job area.

Recommends changes in account tactics to achieve sales goals .

Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.

Communication and Influence: May influence parties within own job function at an operational level.

Obtains or provides information requiring some explanation or interpretation .

Communicates with external customers and / or vendors, involving negotiation and / or presentations in order to manage relationships and close sales.

Leadership and Talent Management: Normally receives general instructions on routine work, detailed instructions on new projects or assignments.

May provide guidance and assistance to entry level sales professionals and / or support employees.

Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires practical knowledge gained through experience of sales techniques and job area typically obtained through education combined with sales experience.

Developing professional expertise, applies company policies and procedures to resolve a variety of issues .

Requires a Baccalaureate degree (or for degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree which satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. 214.2(h)( 4)(iii)(A) and minimum of 3 years of relevant experience and working knowledge of company products and services.

In Sri Lanka a GCE Advance level and a minimum 7 years of work experience in the healthcare industry,

or

A bachelors degree AND a minimum of 3 years of relevant work experience in the healthcare field.