Manager Strategic Accounts - Shockwave Medical

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Job Function:

MedTech Sales

Job Sub Function:

Clinical Sales – Hospital/Hospital Systems (Commission)

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson is hiring for a Manager, Strategic Accounts for Shockwave Medical Inc. located in Charlotte, NC and Raleigh, NC.

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/.

Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments. Ready to join a team that’s pioneering the development and commercialization of Intravascular Lithotripsy (IVL) to treat complex calcified cardiovascular disease. Our Shockwave Medical portfolio aims to establish a new standard of care for medical device treatment of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease through its differentiated and proprietary local delivery of sonic pressure waves for the treatment of calcified plaque.

Position Overview

The Manager, Strategic Account drives business growth through developing strategically aligned relationships with customers while providing leadership across customer teams and projects. Establishes and implements cost-effective, results-based, and professionally managed programs and innovative initiatives for the organization and delivers impactful business insights to solidify our competitive advantage.

Essential Job Functions

• Build and maintain positive, long-term relationships with key individuals at the hospital level customers.
• Execute initiatives pulling strategy from IDN level to hospital/account level.
• Drive innovative solutions and partnerships within targeted accounts and customers.
• Work with sales leaders and sales teams to increase prospects and drive closure of opportunities.
• Help navigate VAC approval process for new products and influence VAC members
• Anticipate customer needs, marketplace evolutions and competitive threats.
• Partner closely and collaborate with the cross functional team for the overall strategy, the marketing content creation and the external tactics.
• Partner closely and collaborate with the cross functional team for the overall strategy, the marketing content creation and the external tactics.
• Effectively manage multiple priorities to support and assist advancing business strategies
• Effectively identifies, engages, and manages relationships with influential individuals in the cardiovascular interventional space and fosters long-term strategic partnerships. 
• Measure and assess the impact of KOLs engagements and convey results to cross-functional teams to further refine market access strategies.
• Articulate the complete value proposition (clinical, reimbursement, health economics, and pricing) of Shockwave Medical to Key Strategic Accounts.
• Demonstrate in-depth product knowledge, and ability to speak clinically to physicians at a high level.
• Maintain company standards involving ethical and moral character while professionally representing the company.
• Comply with all corporate compliance, FDA, medical device, quality standards and ethics.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 5 years of sales experience as territory manager in medical devices (cardiovascular interventional space preferred).
• Successful Sales experience in catheter technology with occlusive vascular disease, endovascular, atherectomy, stent, coronary sales experience with peripheral influence preferred but not required.
• Working knowledge of contracting process and in-depth knowledge of VAC process.
• Thorough knowledge and understanding of sales applications and principles.
• Strong influencing skills to represent the needs of internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong judgment and balanced decision-making.
• Capable of independently managing time and resources, within the assigned strategic accounts in conjunction with near-term plans to further business goals.
• Must not be debarred by FDA for work in any Medical Device business. 
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment while managing multiple priorities.
• Must have a valid driver’s license.
• Up to 50% domestic travel is required.
• Operate as a team and/or independently while demonstrating flexibility to changing requirements.
• There may be continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8-hour day)

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

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Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

Communication, Customer Centricity, Developing Others, Growth Marketing, Hospital Operations, Innovation, Market Research, Market Savvy, Medicines and Device Development and Regulation, Pricing Strategies, Proactive Behavior, Problem Solving, Sales, Sales Practices, Solutions Selling, Sustainable Procurement, Vendor Selection