Job Description: Account Executive - Louisiana and Mississippi

Employment Type: Full time Location Type: Remote Travel: 80% (4 days per week in the field)

Position Overview

Abbott Core Labs is seeking a strategic and driven Account Executive to cover Louisiana and Mississippi. This remote role requires extensive travel within the territory to identify and close new business opportunities. The Account Executive will work with multiple stakeholders, including C-suite executives, to expedite complex decisions and achieve successful outcomes. The ideal candidate is a self-starter who excels at developing and implementing best practices, leveraging customer insights, and consistently exceeding expectations.

What You’ll Work On

• Manage the entire lifecycle of new business opportunities, partnering with customer decision-makers to enhance their performance using the Abbott Core Diagnostics product portfolio.
• Drive market share growth by identifying opportunities across the respective territory and cultivating these into new business opportunities.
• Collaborate with the Enterprise Account Manager (EAM) to secure business in larger hospital systems.
• Manage and drive the renewal process to ensure customer retention and satisfaction for non-enterprise customers.
• Gain a deep understanding of client goals and objectives through strong relationship skills across multiple stakeholders (Laboratory, procurement, medical directors, clinical engineering, C-suite).
• Identify and quantify the impact of Abbott's solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree, OR associate’s degree with 2 years of sales experience or other applicable commercial experience.
• 4 years of relevant experience.
• Willingness to travel 80% (4 days in the field).

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• 5+ years of experience in capital sales and/or multi-stakeholder environments, developing and selling customized solutions to senior-level laboratory leadership and C-suite executives.
• Proven success in strategic sales, including exceeding plans and turning around underperforming territories.
• Experience in capital sales and/or multi-stakeholder environments, developing and selling customized solutions to senior-level/C-suite executives.
• Innovation and change management skills, with the ability to bring new ideas forward and drive them through the organization.
• Strong business planning process and attention to detail.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite of products.
• Proficiency in SalesForce.com Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system.

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Working at Abbott: At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical 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 bachelor’s 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.

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits: www.abbottbenefits.com

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