Sales Solutions Specialist - Pharma / Life Science
Join us on our exciting journey! IQVIA™ is The Human Data Science Company™, focused on using data and science to help healthcare clients find better solutions for their patients. Formed through the merger of IMS Health and Quintiles, IQVIA offers a broad range of solutions that harness advances in healthcare information, Technology, analytics and human ingenuity to drive healthcare forward. Job Overview Develops new business for a specific product specialty, providing the product expertise and sales leadership to identify & qualify revenue opportunities, proactively manage the selling process, and close the sale in both existing and new accounts. Essential Functions
- Achieves growth & revenue targets for assigned product through a consultative sales approach that solves client business issues.
- Proactively strengthens in-depth knowledge of product and its application within a client’s enterprise.
- Participates with Account Directors to establish account planning strategy as it relates to assigned product area.
- Collaborates with Customer Team to target and validate opportunities for assigned customers / territory.
- Interfaces with customer at all levels.
- Creates and presents client proposals that result in winning sales.
- As necessary, identifies and manages resources to develop proposals that position IQVIA capabilities & solutions to customers.
- Monitors delivery, implementation, and customer satisfaction.
- Seeks “starburst” opportunities within existing customers to grow revenue opportunities across the IQVIA suite of offerings.
- As part of the sales process, gathers market and client intelligence and provides strategic feedback to Marketing, Consulting, Service, and Sales to strengthen offerings and capture additional business.
- May have leadership responsibility with less experienced solutions sales personnel.
- Bachelor's Degree Req
- 3 years relevant sales or account management experience Req
- Possesses knowledge of key marketplace issues for the pharmaceutical industry and related businesses.
- Deep knowledge of one or more IQVIA specialty products along with subject matter expertise relating to client business processes that are improved by the IQVIA solution.
- Must be a superior and successful sales person, have excellent presentation and writing skills, act with a sense of urgency, and be able to work both independently and within a team environment.
- Must have successful experience identifying and closing new business opportunities and developing positive relationships at all levels of client management and within IQVIA sales, consulting and marketing teams.
- Must be revenue driven, knowledgeable, consultative, a problem solver, customer focused, creative, resourceful, fast & flexible, team player, organized, and an effective negotiator.