Digital Health Solutions Executive - Africa, Johannesburg

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Roodepoort office our Core Diagnostics Division.

We’reempowering smarter medical and economic decision-making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.

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.

WhatYou’llWork On

The Digital Health Solutions Sales Executive (DHSE) is accountable for business and revenue growth within the designated region/country across Core Diagnostics, Hematology, Transfusion, and Molecular business. 

DHSE collaborates with the diagnostics sales team, to execute growth strategies,optimizebusiness growth and profitability. 

DHSE achieves this by providing end to end Digital Health Solutions with intelligent insights to enable health care providers, from laboratories to public hospitals to private integrated delivery systems, to achieve revenue target by improving operational performance and clinical outcomes of existing and new customers.

Major Accountabilities

• Acquire new business within assigned district(s), where there is no existing Diagnostics and / orAlinIQfootprint by consultative strategic team selling to achieve deep understanding of unmet needs and pain points of customers and stakeholders
• Set and achieve or exceed quarterly, annual sales quotas and manage sales budgets
• Focus on C-Suite value driver discussions including population/community health, merger and acquisitions, remote patient monitoring, risk stratification of business and patients
• Identify new opportunities for growth by focusing on end-to-end health care improvements as primary value driver for in and outside the lab to pull through digital health solution sales and reagent sales
• Be knowledgeable about industry trends, changing market regulations and healthcare policy within defined customer segment. Understand the impact on customers and their key care-abouts.
• Lead and execute complex contract negotiations to achieve the sales quota forgivencustomer base. Create strong territory and strategic account plans to lay out strategic approach and share best practices withlargerSales team to help drive a culture of excellence.
• Review account activity,anticipatecustomer needs and improve customer satisfaction.
• Accountable for driving market share growth through new business opportunity realization. The role is instrumental in expanding brand reputation and delivery of sales and profitabilityobjectives.
• Research target accounts to understand performance KPIs and customer strategies to drive conversations thatdemonstratehow the application of IT enablers and service solutions in/outside of the lab and across the broader healthcare space can improve performance KPIs and strategies.
• Work collaboratively with sales and DHS counterparts to achieve performance targets and exceed customer expectations.
• Navigate within a highly matrixed environment usingstrong communicationand interpersonal skills to coordinateappropriate Abbottresources and support necessary
• Ensures that all activities are performed in compliance with quality system requirements.

Required Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree or associatedegree with 4 years of sales experience; a focus in healthcare/medical, life sciences, IT or medical technology is preferred

Preferred Qualifications
• Experience leading & executing simple to complex (multi stakeholder/multiyear) contract negotiations.
• Demonstrated ability to align and integrate diverse business teams and functions to ensure they work together to deliver results.
• Previous Exposure with IT technology within Health care Environment. Able to articulate customer value propositions at all levels of institutions (e.g., C-Suite) for digital value (e.g., Labor savings, e.g. clinical improvement) leading to successful business closes
• Communication skills and teamwork skills in working with internal / external stakeholders is essential for the role
• Proven ability to influence an effective consultative sales approach to uncover customer pain points and provide value-added solutions in a complex pathology and IT environment
• Highly motivated, result driven individual, with strong problem-solving skills and track record of driving measurable outcomes
• Strong ability to pivot and adapt to changing business needs in a fast-pacing high growth environment
• Preferred sales experience and knowledge of the Diagnostic environment involving multiple levels of decision makers and the understanding of a complex selling cycle
• Sales or consulting experience with software or digital solution selling preferred
• Experience in total solution design (TSD) preferred