Neurology Account Manager - Parkinsons

Summary

GE Healthcare delivers precision health solutions and diagnostic imaging agents that support clinical diagnosis and treatment decisions. The Neurology Account Manager will grow sales and drive adoption of DaTscan and DaTQUANT for Parkinson's care across the Pacific Northwest. The role manages customer accounts, develops sales strategies, educates physicians, and collaborates with hospitals, imaging centers, and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop business plans and execution strategies for key imaging centers and referring physicians
• Pre-call planning and in-call questioning to understand customer needs, craft solutions and drive utilization
• Collaborate with market access support teams to optimize payor contract implementation and satisfaction across imaging centers and hospitals
• Monitor territory plan performance, communicate results and action steps to all cross-functional partners
• Develop deep knowledge of the diagnostic algorithms and care pathways used by physicians to evaluate patients with neurodegenerative diseases who are being evaluated for Parkinson's Disease, Essential Tremors or other causes of neurodegenerative decline
• Understand and clearly communicate Pharmaceutical Diagnostic’s Neurology team’s strategy, goals and planning to all cross-functional team members and customers, including how our imaging scans fits into GE Healthcare vision and goals for better patient care
• Account Management of a cross-functional territory that includes opening up hospital / imaging centers to offer imaging services that utilize DaTscan
• Generating patient referrals by educating community physicians and specialists (push/pull) about this new diagnostic tool via in-service, speaker programs, etc
• Create relationships with key targets that convey valuable information in condensed timeframes and creatively earn access rights to difficult to see physicians
• Compiling lists of prospective customers and sales leads; follow up as necessary
• Working with account managers to increase prospects and drive closure of opportunities
• Making cold calls to potential customers where required
• Providing pricing strategy, managing contracts, and ensuring pricing compliance for segment opportunities
• Deliver solutions. Sell and manage relationship with between assigned pharmacies and customers
• Forecasting orders and sales of assigned territory and submit monthly report
• Representing the company at trade association meetings to promote product and company
• Achieve individual sales targets for the assigned territory
• Develop deep knowledge of DaTscan, DaTQUANT and other portfolio products in order to articulate the key selling messages to all relevant customers
• Demonstrate understanding of the imaging marketplace including business goals, Nuclear Medicine and PET products and equipment used in hospitals and independent imaging centers
• Address most product-related questions and promptly locate answers/experts for questions he/she cannot answer or which must be answered by an expert
• For hospitals and imaging centers, profile the typical patient flow from prescriber request for a scan to scheduling of a scan, procurement of a scanning product, interpretation of the scan, and the report back to the prescribing physician
• Identify the top referring prescribers, create relationships, and appropriately impact the decision-making criteria that may result in the utilization of GE Neurology’s imaging agents

Skills

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university / college or valid and current certification through the NMTCB or AART
• Experience selling into hospitals, contracting, and buying/billing products or relevant clinical experience in a healthcare setting
• Proven track record of sales success developing, organizing and implementing sales plans, meeting and exceeding sales targets, and penetrating new accounts/markets/competitive through proficiency in prospecting, lead qualification, sales and negotiations
• Demonstrated ability to achieve sales objectives while operating in compliance with regulatory guidelines
• Salesforce CRM entry and opportunity management is a requirement of the role
• Demonstrated selling skills, analytical skills and pharmaceutical industry acumen
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple stakeholders and competing priorities through effective organizational, people, and time management skills
• Must be willing to reside in the territory
• Must be willing and able to do 30% overnight travel
• Must have a valid driver's license
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required
• 3+ years of relevant and progressive sales experience, in a medical, healthcare, technical, pharmaceutical or Life Sciences field preferred
• Desire to work in start-up styled business where the drive to establish and grow market
• Awareness of clinical tools and drive adoption is key to success
• Ability to work both independently and in a team setting towards meeting established objectives •Ability to apply a range of traditional and nontraditional problem-solving techniques to think through and solve issues creatively to improve performance and company effectiveness
• Ability to build rapport and relationships by interacting effectively with employees and external contacts (i.e. MD and office staff) at all levels, demonstrating the awareness of their needs and responding with the appropriate action
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Excellent organizational skills
• Strong presentation skills
• The ideal candidate will live in Vancouver or Seattle, WA or in Portland, OR

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university / college or valid and current certification through the NMTCB or AART
• Experience selling into hospitals, contracting, and buying/billing products or relevant clinical experience in a healthcare setting
• Proven track record of sales success developing, organizing and implementing sales plans, meeting and exceeding sales targets, and penetrating new accounts/markets/competitive through proficiency in prospecting, lead qualification, sales and negotiations
• Demonstrated ability to achieve sales objectives while operating in compliance with regulatory guidelines
• Salesforce CRM entry and opportunity management is a requirement of the role
• Demonstrated selling skills, analytical skills and pharmaceutical industry acumen
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple stakeholders and competing priorities through effective organizational, people, and time management skills
• Must be willing to reside in the territory
• Must be willing and able to do 30% overnight travel
• Must have a valid driver's license
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required

Nice to Haves

• 3+ years of relevant and progressive sales experience, in a medical, healthcare, technical, pharmaceutical or Life Sciences field preferred
• Desire to work in start-up styled business where the drive to establish and grow market
• Awareness of clinical tools and drive adoption is key to success
• Ability to work both independently and in a team setting towards meeting established objectives •Ability to apply a range of traditional and nontraditional problem-solving techniques to think through and solve issues creatively to improve performance and company effectiveness
• Ability to build rapport and relationships by interacting effectively with employees and external contacts (i.e. MD and office staff) at all levels, demonstrating the awareness of their needs and responding with the appropriate action
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Excellent organizational skills
• Strong presentation skills
• The ideal candidate will live in Vancouver or Seattle, WA or in Portland, OR

Benefits

• Remote work arrangement
• Performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI).
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Paid time off
• 401(k) plan with employee and company contribution opportunities
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Accident insurance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Professional development
• Career opportunities
• A great work environment