Mentor Sales Specialist| Johnson & Johnson MedTech | North and Midlands in Wokingham

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Job Function: MedTech Sales

Job Sub Function: Clinical Sales – Hospital/Hospital Systems (Commission)

Job Category: Professional

All Job Posting Locations: Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom; West Midlands, England, United Kingdom; West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom; Wokingham, Berkshire, United Kingdom

We have an exciting and challenging role within our Mentor team as a Sales Specialist North and Midlands where you will be responsible for maintaining and growing the Breast Implant and reconstruction device business in the Public and Private sector.

Purpose of the role: As a Sales Specialist you are required to achieve agreed objectives and sales targets as outlined in the annual performance cycle. Within your allocated geographical region, you will interact and promote products to key customers and stakeholders in secondary care. You take the lead in managing your Plastic and Oncoplastic breast surgeons. You will manage consignment across your territory and collection of POs for Mentor products. You manage your territory through the development of comprehensive business plans, focusing on high value opportunities to grow and develop new businesses. Share gain and the adoption of new technologies whilst maintaining key customers will be critical. You manage and develop accounts and own clinical and commercial relationships, ensuring efficient alignment of all efforts to maximise impact of all activities driving growth. You ensure key insights from the external marketplace are appropriately shared internally to shape future business plans. You ensure competence in the Breast Reconstruction and Breast Augmentation focus areas and can effectively promote our product portfolio. You act as an ambassador for Johnson & Johnson MedTech aligned to our Credo.

Key areas of responsibility:

• Account Planning: You analyse and interpret account strategies and plans utilizing key systems and data to gain a broad understanding of the business environment and insights into account needs. You develop, deploy and maintain tactical account business plans that align to business and customer objectives to deliver agreed objectives. You prepare appropriate plans to meet with customers to deliver on account plans and milestones.
• Selling: You build a strong network of relationships that enables the identification of mutually beneficial opportunities to sell key technologies in the surgical procedural environment. You present brand value propositions and value-added customer solutions to positively influence buying behaviors.
• Professional Education and Marketing: You will have the opportunity to lead customer education activities. You will partner with Professional Education to develop and maintain associated KOL relationships as well as championing the effective use of the Company’s comprehensive Professional Education offering.
• Clinical Expertise: You understand technical information pertinent to the procedure and product platform. You maintain up-to-date market and industry knowledge.

What to expect: Mentor is the global market leader in the Breast Reconstruction and Breast Augmentation sectors. We offer a broad range of solutions to meet the requirements of physicians and their patients. Our products are backed by a significant body of clinical data.

Who will you be working with? You will work collaboratively with colleagues across Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices to deliver your business plan. You will report directly to the Mentor National Sales Manager, and you will collaborate with other Sales Specialists, Marketing, Professional Education and our Commercial teams to grow and protect your business.

Who are we looking for?

Skills and competencies:

• Self-motivated strategic thinker.
• Strong Selling & Negotiating skills.
• Ability to effectively plan and prioritise customer requests.
• Excellent communication skills – written, spoken and presentation ability.
• Excellent commercial acumen.
• Consignment management.
• Influencing and business partnering skills – understands stakeholder requirements, ability to analyse requirements and develop strategies that drive the adoption of technologies and become a trusted business advisor.
• An ability to build trust with customers by asking probing questions that help the customer achieve their objectives, acting in a consultative manner.
• Continual learning utilising the internal training modules.
• Maintain deep clinical expertise in procedure and product knowledge.
• Networking – proactive in business situations; expands network continually; comfortable in meeting new people and stimulating conversation.
• Being a fantastic teammate, actively engages, has a voice in group settings and collaborates with enthusiasm across functional boundaries.
• Drive and tenacity and a strong winning spirit.

Education & Experience: Successfully navigate the secondary care and private sector environment. Proven successful track record in selling. Experience within aesthetic medicine, plastic surgery/oncoplastic Medical Devices sector would be great.

Key Compliance Requirements: Always act as a role model for J&J Credo values. Demonstrate integrity and ethical behavior in all areas of responsibility. Maintain thorough familiarity with your detailed personal Health & Safety responsibilities as described in the Company’s Health & Safety policy. Adherence to all Company policies and vital training and development requirements within required time frames. Ensure compliance with all product complaint process. To travel across territory and attend meetings as required.

By joining Johnson & Johnson you will find boundless opportunities to craft your path & amplify your impact inside & outside our walls. And with our commitment to be the world’s healthiest workforce you can strengthen your body as well and your mind. When you work at Johnson & Johnson you can touch over a billion lives worldwide every day. And when you apply your talent to our collective purpose there’s no end to the lasting impact we can make together. And that changes everything.

It’s important to us that you feel you can bring your whole self to work; at Johnson & Johnson we provide an environment for you to fulfil your career aspirations as well as promoting your physical and mental wellbeing. As part of our offering, you will receive competitive compensation and benefits package as well as benefits that can be tailored to what is valuable to you throughout different stages of your life. Examples of this include online Digital GP, private healthcare, Retail Vouchers, Discounted & Subsidised Gym memberships and you can get to support community projects as part of our global Corporate Social Responsibility programme.