Sales Director - Health Tech 1 1

Req ID: 123746

Remote Position: Yes

Region: Europe

General Overview

Functional Area: MBD - Marketing & Business Development
Career Stream: SAL - Sales
Role: Director 1
Job Title: Sales Director 1
Job Code: DR1-MBD-SALE
Band: Level 12
Direct/Indirect Indicator: Indirect

Summary

Location: Remote Employee

Celestica is dedicated to delivering end-to-end product lifecycle solutions to drive our customers’ success. Our growing Advanced Technology Solutions (ATS) organization focuses on applying Celestica's advanced capabilities, knowledgeable people and innovative tools to enable companies in the medical industry with highly complex, mission critical applications to improve their competitive advantage.

We are currently expanding our Advanced Technology Solutions (ATS) Sales organization and are seeking a senior sales leader to help drive the growth and shape the future of a collaborative, high performance, growth oriented business unit.

At Celestica, our people make the difference…..

We are looking for a Sales Director who is passionate and results-oriented to be part of our global ATS organization. If you are a highly motivated individual who can align unique insights to key customer priorities and can engage customers by deliberately linking their business priorities to our value propositions, then we want you on our team.

Detailed Description

As the Sales Director, you will be responsible for targeting new customer engagements across various submarkets in the healthtech space with focus on surgical instruments, patient monitoring devices, diagnostic imaging, in-vitro diagnostics, and other medical related devices.

The incumbent is accountable to:

• Develop strong and long-lasting insight based relationships with our customers and identify mobilizers. The incumbent will act as the primary sales interface for several accounts on a regional basis. More specifically:

• Investigates potential new opportunities within the account

• Hunts for new accounts or region

• Gains competitive intelligence and always ties insights back to our unique strengths in the market

• Creates opportunities to provide a unique and contrarian perspective during commercial conversations and is able to reframe the way customers view their business

• Have deep knowledge of customer’s business current macro and microeconomic trends, industry trends and potential new business opportunities

• Engages the customer by deliberately tying their business priorities to our value proposition

• Manages the overall customer relationship process while supporting business development in the planning and execution of the account strategies, tactics and selling propositions.

• Acts as the Customer advocate to ensure that the organization remains customer-focused.

• Acts as the main focal point to understand customers needs and requests, manages them and delivers business proposals and RFQ responses to customers.

• Maintains a minimum revenue accountability (a personal sales quota) equivalent to at least US$4M in value-add.

• Establishes value before ROI/financial terms. Is able to qualify and quantify the impact of maintaining the status quo or pursuing competitor’s solutions.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

• Experience in the Challenger Sales methodology is highly preferred

• Strong communication, interpersonal, relationship management and professional sales skills

• Have the ability to work on, and close, multiple prospects simultaneously

• Experience in high complex service selling within a global network

• Understanding of technical and process fundamentals related to electronics and electromechanical products used in the medical device industry (FDA regulation, ISO13485, MDD, riskmanagement, development process for new products)

• Proven track record of developing business with new clients / developing new markets led by a technical background (either in manufacturing or engineering)

• Fostering and building relationships with existing clients as required

• Strong strategic planning and execution skills

• Ability to understand Profit and Loss modeling and sales impacts to improving customer financials

• Value based solution selling, business judgment, negotiation and decision-making skills.

• Experience working and selling with senior level executives.

• Exceptional ability to work with others as part of a cross-functional team

• Experience working with vast remote cross-functional teams in large matrix organizations

• Demonstrated ability to have successfully carried a sales, revenue or operational quota gains

• Business Travel is required 30-50%

Typical Experience

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in business development and client relations specifically related to medical products (strong network into the medical industry is required)

Typical Education

• Engineering Degree preferred
• Fluent English

Notes

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.

Celestica is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on any protected status (including race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran or disability status or other characteristics protected by law).
At Celestica we are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported. Special arrangements can be made for candidates who need it throughout the hiring process. Please indicate your needs and we will work with you to meet them.

COMPANY OVERVIEW:
Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world’s best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development – from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud. Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.

Celestica would like to thank all applicants, however, only qualified applicants will be contacted.
Celestica does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services.