Molecular Sales Account Executive (Columbus, OH)

Summary

Abbott is a global healthcare leader whose diagnostic solutions support hospitals, laboratories, and clinics worldwide. The Molecular Sales Account Executive drives growth across Ohio by developing new business, expanding existing accounts, managing complex capital sales cycles, and building strategic customer partnerships.

Responsibilities

• Work across multiple stakeholders, including C-suite, to expedite complex decisions and achieve quick wins
• Drive market share growth by identifying and cultivating new business opportunities across the territory
• Develop and deploy best practices, leveraging customer insights to exceed business expectations
• Prioritize and plan effectively, cutting through complexity to streamline business operations
• Leverage cross-functional teams and resources successfully in a collaborative environment
• Build trust and long-term partnerships with customers by understanding their needs and delivering win-win solutions
• Anticipate sales shortfalls and implement contingency plans through effective troubleshooting and problem-solving
• Manage complex, long-term capital sales cycles with strategic foresight
• Understand client goals through strong relationships across stakeholders (e.g., laboratory, procurement, medical directors, clinical engineering, C-suite) and quantify the impact of Abbott solutions
• Collaborate with the Enterprise Account Manager (EAM) to secure business in large hospital systems
• Manage and drive the renewal process to ensure customer retention and satisfaction for non-enterprise accounts

Skills

• Bachelor's degree
• 4+ years of sales experience
• Proven success in strategic sales, including exceeding plans and turning around underperforming territories
• 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
• Must have a Valid Driver's License
• Sale experience in diagnostics or laboratory
• 2+ years of experience in capital equipment sales
• Experience in capital sales and/or multi-stakeholder environments, developing and selling customized solutions to senior-level/C-suite executives
• Commitment to customers; service-minded
• Makes logical timely decisions based on analysis and experience
• Adheres to proper call documentation
• Displays effective oral and written communication to accomplish business goals and foster building customer rapport and relationships
• Persuades others to support a course of action, acts proactively to originate actions to improve existing conditions and process
• Interpersonal skills; savvy, polished, and professional, including customer interfacing experience with strong communication ability and people management
• Ability to learn technical and scientific knowledge and utilize in selling situations

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Bachelor's degree
• 4+ years of sales experience
• Proven success in strategic sales, including exceeding plans and turning around underperforming territories
• 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
• Must have a Valid Driver's License

Nice to Haves

• Sale experience in diagnostics or laboratory
• 2+ years of experience in capital equipment sales
• Experience in capital sales and/or multi-stakeholder environments, developing and selling customized solutions to senior-level/C-suite executives
• Commitment to customers; service-minded
• Makes logical timely decisions based on analysis and experience
• Adheres to proper call documentation
• Displays effective oral and written communication to accomplish business goals and foster building customer rapport and relationships
• Persuades others to support a course of action, acts proactively to originate actions to improve existing conditions and process
• Interpersonal skills; savvy, polished, and professional, including customer interfacing experience with strong communication ability and people management
• Ability to learn technical and scientific knowledge and utilize in selling situations

Benefits

• This is a remote position
• 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 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.
• Access to Abbott health and wellness benefits