Make a meaningful difference to patients around the world. Driven by a passion to help patients live healthier and more productive lives, our Sales teams embrace Edwards Lifesciences’ values to build trusting, lasting relationships with medical professionals and industry partners. Your insight and dedication will help deepen and broaden clinical knowledge of our company’s innovative technologies, while creating connections between providers and teams across our businesses to ensure patients receive the highest quality of care.
Dedicated to innovation, our Surgical business unit is focused on identifying and solving critical, unmet needs in cardiac surgery. In understanding the challenges of open-heart surgery, we partner with surgical teams to deliver modern technologies intended to enhance patients’ quality of life and expand their potential treatment opportunities. It’s our driving force to help patients live longer and healthier lives. Join us and be part of our inspiring journey.
Job Purpose:
To drive the surgical structural heart business in your assigned territory/accounts. Managing relationships with customers, looking to grow Edwards' strategic revenue. To identify, develop, and close sales opportunities. Management of consignment/stock.
Key Responsibilities:
• Serves as the main point of contact within the surgical structural heart business unit for assigned territory and/or customer base utilizing good understanding of cardiac anatomy, pathology and physiology relevant to EW medical products as it relates to the business
• Builds and manages strong, long-lasting relationships with customers and other influencers in assigned region to push Edwards positioning in the market utilizing influencing skills on buying decisions using tact and diplomacy
• Develops and closes new business opportunities with existing customers and identifies areas of improvement to meet sales targets while developing and executing short-term region plans to achieve region objectives
Education and Experience:
Bachelor's Degree in related field
5+ years’ experience of progressive sales experience in medical sales
Medical devices experience, ideally in cardiac and/or surgical
Cardiology pharmaceutical sales experience considered.
Proven track record of sales success
Drive and passion
Required Skills:
Full knowledge of the strengths and limitations of own products and competitor products
Develops deeper understanding of own business, medical devices industry and selling environment of own region
Full knowledge of customer organizations and how market environment impacts customers
Full understanding of hemodynamic monitoring and/or cardiovascular anatomy, pathology and physiology relevant to EW medical products as it relates to the business
Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast paced environment
Strict attention to detail
Understands customer needs, feedback and objections and explains products to influence customer perception of value
Utilizes creativity and influencing skills with new or existing customers on buying decisions using tact and diplomacy