Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. They are seeking a District Sales Manager for the Diabetes Care Division, responsible for meeting and exceeding sales goals at the district level while leading a team of representatives. The role involves providing strategic feedback, ensuring compliance with corporate guidelines, and coaching representatives in the field.
Responsibilities
- Meet and exceed District sales goals
- Lead, hire, teach, coach and develop representatives to exceed sales goals
- Provide strategic and tactical feedback to marketing
- Implement the divisional sales and marketing programs
- Implement the appropriate control measures for monitoring representative activity effectiveness in the field
- Monitor performance and adjust resources and approach as needed
- Ensure that all activities fall within the corporate compliance guidelines
- Ensure that each representative is properly trained
- Utilize the appropriate reports for call tracking, territory analysis, and sample accountability
- Routinely work with representatives in the field to coach and assess their skills
- Accountable for retail and managed care accounts within the defined district
- Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and performing other duties as assigned by management
Skills
- Bachelors Degree
- Minimum 2-4 years of selling experience with at least 1 cross training role
- Selling in another channel
- Has demonstrated coaching, leadership, and planning skills
- Can communicate effectively verbally and in writing
- An understanding of who our customers are
- These customers do expect a certain level of competency from their business partners
- Marketing and training experience are highly desirable
- Previous management experience is desirable
Benefits
- Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
- Employees can qualify forfree medical coverage in ourHealth Investment Plan (HIP) PPOmedical 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 bachelors 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.
Company Overview
Abbott is a healthcare company that produces diagnostic kits, medical devices, nutritional products, and branded generic medicines. It was founded in 1888, and is headquartered in Illinois City, Illinois, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.abbott.com.