Strategic Account Manager (M/W) - Remote Working

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

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 will have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world 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.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Core Diagnostics Division across France and reports to Enterprise Solution Director. Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories, and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments, and informatics systems is often the first step in patient care decision-making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.

As an Enterprise Account Manager, you will forge deep and trusted relationships with our largest customers at the most senior levels. By leading a targeted team, you will gain an understanding of our customers’ key business and network needs and challenges, and then create and provide solutions to enhance their operations, ultimately delivering measurably better performance. Through your customer and team interactions, you will establish your brand as a trusted advisor who develops insights and creates value.

What You’ll Do

This is a high-paced role where you will be empowered and rewarded to drive and create value for our key customers. In this pivotal role, your key responsibilities would include but not be limited to:

• Establishing and building key stakeholder relationships inside and outside the customers’ laboratory and their wider health system, leveraging them to drive growth.
• Providing end-to-end diagnostics solutions to large, complex enterprise accounts with a focus on retention, penetration, and growth to generate profitable and sustainable activity that exceeds customers’ expectations.
• Leading an internal cross-functional team to execute a strategic account plan for each enterprise customer; coordinating activities across the entire customer and healthcare network to maximize growth and customer outcomes.
• Responsible for overall strategic account management planning, including uncovering a large complex organization’s long-term strategic plan and converting this to a winning solution for the customer; overseeing detailed account planning and sales forecasting; negotiating contracts and all pricing resulting in long-term commitments.
• Providing organizational leadership and commercial development of teams and individuals through coaching and mentoring.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, life sciences, engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 2+ years of experience as a consultative partner/seller managing B2B businesses.
• Experience working with executives and C-suites in the healthcare, informatics, communications, technology, or consultancy industry.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven track record of operating at a senior level in a commercial organization within a matrixed environment.
• Experience managing and negotiating complex, multi-level, and multi-stakeholder solution selling processes in the healthcare, informatics, communications, technology, or consultancy industry.
• Experience leading complex enterprise deals of $1MM+.
• MBA or equivalent is highly regarded.