The Senior Director - Area Salesis a field-based role with direct customer engagement that leverages industry experience to identify, develop, and pursue customer opportunities and foster, build, and maintain relationships with current customers. The position is responsible driving business results, overseeing overall objectives, and sales execution aligned to corporate goals. The role leverages a firm understanding of the business, industry, and competitive landscape to evaluate and anticipate impact and to implement sales plans that leverage the combined expertise and resources of FMI. The Senior Director is responsible for achieving organizational growth objectives and developing cross-functional partnerships across the organization to support Commercial excellence and a positive customer experience.
Key Responsibilities
Meet and exceed quarterly and annual sales quotas/objectives for FMI's product portfolio.
Serve as a strong change agent for and within the Commercial organization, setting the standard and role modeling exceptional change leadership and communication practices.
Translate vision into actionable, quantitative plans for your area sales team.
Create and implement area, regional, and territory business plans, and support the development of strategic account plans at corporate accounts.
Direct area sales activities, set expectations, provide guidance, establish accurate plans and forecasts, hold the team accountable to minimum performance standards, build pipelines and execute each phase of the sales process, and drive short-term and long-term results to maximize overall territory growth objective.
Develop strong teams, foster a collaborative work environment, encourage innovative thinking, and build leadership skills of direct reports and team members.
Provide recommendations and guidance on evaluating sales opportunities pertinent to strategy and territory business plan, coach to pull-through of national strategies as appropriate (e.g., AMC, community, pathology).
Improve processes and lead initiatives to implement identified improvements.
Effectively present business plans and mitigation strategies to achieve organizational objectives.
Leverage market intelligence, environmental factors, and political landscape to identify issues and direct key actions impacting the day-to-day sales activities.
Analyze region performance and identify areas of opportunity.
Ability to Travel ≥ 50% of the time.
Other projects as periodically assigned.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree
12+ years experience in the diagnostics, medical device, or other relevant industry or commercial environment as a sales professional
7+ years experience as a manager of sales professionals
Preferred Qualifications
10+ years of progressively responsible experience in sales, preferably within diagnostics or medical device
5+ years of experience managing managers
7+ years of Sales team leadership experience
7+ years of professional experience:
selling oncology-based tests and services
creating impactful strategic sales plans and developing value propositions, positioning, and targeting
in healthcare with an emphasis on diagnostics, genomics, and biotechnology
Knowledge of accounts and key influencers in the territory
Knowledge of gathering industry trends, generating deep customer insights, and competitive intelligence to align sales strategies
Demonstrated experience and success in leading cross-functional projects to impact the business
History of strong relationship-building with critical customers, cross-functional partners, and external business partners
Experience developing an organizationally aligned culture that enables team members to do their best work
Familiarity with developing sales plans and strategies to drive organizational growth
Familiarity with next-generation sequencing technologies and with all of FMI's products
Understanding of HIPAA and the importance of patient data privacy
Commitment to FMI values: passion, patients, innovation, and collaboration
#LI-RemoteFoundation Medicine, Inc. (FMI) began with an idea - to simplify the complex nature of cancer genomics, bringing cutting-edge science and technology to everyday cancer care. Our approach generates insights that help doctors match patients to more treatment options and helps accelerate the development of new therapies. Foundation Medicine is the culmination of talented people coming together to realize an important vision, and the work we do every day impacts real lives.
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