Sales Associate

Sales Associate

Location:

Chicago, IL, US Berkeley Heights, NJ, US, 07922

About Us:

As a developer, manufacturer, and supplier of essential medicines, Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. and its affiliates' mission is to bring Better Health. Within Reach. Every Day.® for millions of patients around the world. We are a trusted, reliable partner and dependable source of over 800 high-quality generic, specialty and branded pharmaceutical products that hospitals, physicians and pharmacists need to treat their patients across North America, the Middle East, North Africa and Europe.

Through our 32 manufacturing plants, eight R&D centers, and 9,500+ employees worldwide, we are always hard at work creating high-quality medicines and making them accessible to the people who need them.

Description:

We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We are seeking a talented and motivated Sales Associate to join our team. The Sales Associate is part of Sales & Marketing and is responsible for driving sales to new customers while meeting established individual and organizational sales objectives. Hikma's growing, energetic, and innovative pharmacy injectables Sales team, will build and maintain valuable sales skills, cross-functionally learn about all facets of the business and help develop a pathway for growth opportunities and career advancement.

Responsibilities:

• Independently manage, prospect, and build relationships within an assigned territory in order to drive new business, increase revenue growth, and ensure customer satisfaction.
• Manage matters of significance relating to sales pipeline, sales activity, and monthly business forecasting through customer interfacing activities and sales data analysis.
• Present regular updates to the Management team demonstrating ownership and engagement of position competencies pertaining to management and general business operations of the company.
• Selling Skills Independently handling different sales scenarios, setting agendas and using call plans. Follows sales process guidance with appropriate tool usage while adopting best practices. Winning sales opportunities after they have progressed past various funnel stages via appropriately recommended call activity; closing late stage deals; developing reasons for prospects to accept action commitments; overcoming late stage deal obstacles; winning confidence and support of high degree of influence buying influences;
  
  grow and maintain a healthy sales funnel.
• Planning and assessing level of objection risk; achieving success in advancing sales stages when obstacles are presented from customers, due to competitive pressure, prices restrictions, or unforeseen external challenges; following corporate objection handling guidelines; advancing sales stages through handling objections. Demonstrating and developing innovative win-win solutions. Uncovers and develops company-viable solution options from the client's view and aligns to their specific interests.
  
  Opportunity partnership the leave parties with deal satisfaction; building trust through multiple communication methods. Implementing methodologies to spot and exploit opportunities in account positioning; managing individual goals that correspond to a territory view; understanding, interpreting and adopting corporate strategic goals; conducting executive-level discussions with senior staff at assigned accounts; producing a strategic territory plan; articulating customer value proposition and linking solutions to the customer strategy.
• Conducts post call analysis, reassesses strategy to determine Best Action for sales calls, opportunity management and Self Coaching Best Practices.
• Business Acumen Taking initiative and exercising discretion without guidance to develop plans of action, contributing ideas and suggestions to assist overall organizational efforts across the business; setting individual goals and priorities; and working and producing sales results independently. Using language and other communication skills to influence customers and internal stakeholders to move business opportunities forward and executing…