Sales Account Executive

Summary

Join Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) as a Strategic Account Executive (SAE) and sell complex supply chain software solutions to healthcare organizations. You will be responsible for account planning and management, achieving growth billings quota, and understanding healthcare industry challenges. The role requires identifying customer pain points, demonstrating GHX solutions' value, and influencing C-suite decision-makers. Success involves developing strategic business plans, implementing sales strategies, and conducting business reviews to expand product usage. You will also need to stay updated on industry trends and competitive activities, while presenting products professionally and strategically protecting accounts.

Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years of sales experience with at least 5 years selling complex technical solutions
• Demonstrated success in managing large, complex strategic accounts while meeting and exceeding annual sales quotas
• Ability to articulate and sell a complete solution vs. specific product features and functions
• Experience building a pipeline and qualifying and identifying deals that you can bring to completion
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal with internal and external clients
• Bachelor’s degree in Business or related discipline, or a combination of education and relevant work experience
• Self-starter that requires minimal direction
• Proven effectiveness working in a collaborative environment
• Knowledge of MS Office Suite
• Willingness to travel up to 75% of the time

Responsibilities

• Establishes business plans for large, existing and most complex accounts to achieve annual quota
• Develops and implements strategies for selling GHX solutions in the C-suite to ensure internal buy-in at the highest level
• Validates prospects’ needs through discovery process, and develops into ROI that solves business problems for clients
• Effectively presents the business case for GHX solutions that solve business problems while providing a relevant ROI.  Qualifies and quantifies the impact of the customer maintaining the status quo or pursuing competitor’s solutions vs. GHX
• Refines messaging and sales tools needed to recruit customers
• Conducts Strategic Business Reviews with customer base to expand usage of products or services, and to identify additional problems to be solved by GHX solutions
• Proactively advances the purchase decision without rushing the customer
• Stays abreast of healthcare industry market trends, macro- and microeconomic impacts to the healthcare supply chain, as well as competitive marketplace activities
• Presents products in a compelling, positive and professional manner
• Applies sound strategies for protecting accounts and penetrating accounts held by competitors
• Acquires and integrates industry knowledge related to general trends, emerging technologies and competitors
• Builds pipeline through lead generation, prospecting, pipeline development, networking, targeting and qualification for new opportunities with existing and new assigned accounts to achieve quota
• Prospects, accurately forecasts and assesses resource allocation and planning of new business deals within assigned accounts
• Develops solution proposals encompassing all aspects of the business applications
• Tracks and reports sales opportunities within Salesforce.com to accurately forecast deals
• Thoroughly qualifies all leads and sales opportunities
• Collaborates internally with Product Management, Marketing, Customer Support and other internal GHX departments to drive overall customer value and satisfaction
• Continually trains and develops knowledge of new technologies and selling points, to include enhancing expertise

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous ERP sales and/or healthcare supply chain sales highly desired
• Experience with various ERP systems
• Experience with Salesforce.com and CRM applications
• Demonstrated success in managing large, complex strategic accounts while meeting and exceeding annual sales quotas

Benefits

• Health, vision, and dental insurance
• Accident and life insurance
• 401k matching
• Paid-time off
• Education reimbursement