GE Healthcare: Sales Leader - Devices ( Lagos or Johannesburg)

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Position Title: Sales LeaderDevices ( based in Johannesburg or Lagos)

Job Number: 1292880
Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Role Summary/Purpose:    
In this role, Sales Leader will be responsible for a limited geographic region or a limited industry or product segment, and managing the activities of first-line sales managers or activities of Sales Account Managers and or Sales Specialists. Also, this position is responsible for attaining sales objectives for their geography, managing the direct sale of the organization’s products or services in a limited geographic region.

Essential Responsibilities    

• Directly managing Account Managers (Sales Generalists) in a specific channel sales region .
  Select, train, and develop personnel to optimize effectiveness.
• Developing and implementing sales strategies to drive organic growth in the assigned sales market
• Cultivating and leveraging customer relationships at the multiple levels within customers
• Development of long-term customer relationships through the ability to identify and capitalize on opportunities that immediately satisfy customer needs
• As a member of Regional leadership team ensuring seamless teamwork with the Service and other channels to provide total customer satisfaction.
• Deploying resources to meet financial / operating objectives including orders, revenue, contribution margin, and base cost control

Qualifications/Requirements:    

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Minimum of 5 years of consultative sales experience including strategic selling and negotiation
• Experience interfacing with both internal team members and external customers as a part of a solution-based sales process
• Strong communication skills to synthesize complex issues and communicate into simple messages
• Willingness and ability to travel within your specified geographic region
• To the extent you are applying for a position that requires you to operate a GE owned/leased, privately owned/leased or rental vehicle for company business, you must be willing to submit to a check of your driving record

Desired Characteristics    

• Previous experience managing sales professionals
• Minimum 5 years Healthcare, Pharma and or LifeSciences sales experience
• Prior experience working for a large company in a matrix environment
• Demonstrated ability to energize, develop, and build rapport at all levels within an organization

Application Deadline
19th February, 2011

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should follow link below to apply onliene.
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