Senior Account Executive

As a pivotal member of our Sales Management team, the Senior Account Executive plays a key role in shaping and nurturing strategic business relationships with mid-sized health systems and specialty customers. This is an exciting opportunity to drive revenue growth and gross profit expansion by leveraging your expertise to strengthen ties with existing clients, while also exploring new business avenues.

In this dynamic role, you'll be at the forefront of delivering innovative programs and solutions tailored to meet our clients' unique needs. Your ability to communicate proactively and follow up relentlessly will be crucial in not just meeting, but exceeding client expectations, leading to increased profitability and new business opportunities. By building long-lasting partnerships grounded in trust and confidence, you'll ensure that our clients know their needs will be addressed promptly and professionally.

If you're passionate about making a real impact and ready to take your career to the next level, we want to hear from you!

• Leads the client facing relationship with all levels of pharmacy and supply chain, including various levels of contacts leveraging active listening and advanced probing skills.
• Promotes the use of and consultatively sells distribution and other solutions to expand business with existing customers in the health systems business segment within a specific geographic area, along with working to identify and bring on new business to expand overall Cencora/ business.
• Demonstrates a deep understanding of the client's needs during conversations with economic influencers, pharmacy, supply chain and the C-Suite.
• Complete ownership of the renewal, new business and RFP process, to include identifying strategic priorities of customer, developing the proposal, pricing and negotiating the deal to completion. Ensures that all proposals offer strategic opportunities for both the client and Cencora, while mitigating margin erosion to support plan.
• Organizes and ensures Quarterly client business reviews that align to and address strategic priorities of client and Cencora.
• Increases Cencora's Distribution business (revenue and profit) via account penetration and "stickiness" through development of productive business relationships, which result in the identification of opportunities and challenges that can be addressed by Cencora's programs/solutions/services.
• Develop and maintain territory and account plans that align with revenue, profitability and sales goals.
• Develops and delivers tailored, professional, and impactful presentations to existing customers and utilizing the consultative selling approach that articulates the value Cencora can bring to support client initiatives.
• Accountable for revenue and profitability objectives in specific assigned accounts with the ability to understand and implement growth driving opportunities for each client.
• Engages and works collaboratively with internal resources during sales process to execute sales expansion and maintenance strategies using services, solutions to address customer specific needs.
• Identifies potential new customers within territory and works directly with subject matter experts during the sales process to prospect account needs and design consultative sales strategies to secure an RFP, negotiate terms, and bring on new business.
• Continually maintains and inputs account activity/results information and tracks interactions in Sales Force, Altify and other appropriate sales/customer relationship management tools.
• Effectively and efficiently manages the assigned territory with a regular call cycle that results in the delivery of appropriate/defined customer touches while also making off-cycle, discretionary calls, as situations require.
• Must be willing to travel as required (including overnight travel) within the assigned customer base and geographic territory; may travel to events such as conferences, and sales meetings.
• Performs related duties as assigned.

Requirements:

• Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing
• Excellent integration, implementation and management skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Working knowledge of computers necessary to operate effectively with company systems and programs
• Excellent customer service skills to address potential issues through channels such as Customer Care without compromising selling-focused conversation
• Excellent follow-up skills to ensure practical follow-through
• Strong presentation skills
• Strong time management skills; ability to schedule customer appointments and calls in advance
• Advanced understanding of financial concepts relevant to maximizing sales profit (e.g. profit and loss statements, value)
• Ability to work well on an independent basis with strong organizational skills; self-starter
• Willingness to travel and attend client meetings, trade shows, and Cencora meetings/trainings
• Advanced working knowledge of suite of Cencora programs and solutions that can offer increased customer value and enhance stickiness
• Strong organizational skills; attention to detail
• Ability to build strong in-person customer relationships
• Good decision-making skills
• Advanced knowledge of the Hospital Systems market
• Strong consultative selling skills and sales analytical skills
• Demonstrates initiative in their own professional development and business curiosity through keeping abreast of the industry and its changes through the use of industry information and company literature.

We provide compensation, benefits, and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support our team members' ability to live with purpose every day. In addition to traditional offerings like medical, dental, and vision care, we also provide a comprehensive suite of benefits that focus on the physical, emotional, financial, and social aspects of wellness. This encompasses support for working families, which may include backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave. To encourage your personal growth, we also offer a variety of training programs, professional development resources, and opportunities to participate in mentorship programs, employee resource groups, volunteer activities, and much more. For details, visit https://www.virtualfairhub.com/cencora

Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law.

The company's continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.

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