Sales Account Manager

We are looking for a Sales Account Manager

in the Portland, OR area (covering Vancouver to East Portland). The ideal candidate will be ambitious, professional, and a self‑starter!

• Competitive base salary of $70,000–$80,000 plus 25% standard commission.
• Comprehensive benefit package including medical, dental and vision coverage.
• Generous PTO program, paid sick leave, 8 paid holidays, and an anniversary day to celebrate your work anniversary.
• 401(k) program, long‑term disability, short‑term disability, and other supplemental benefits.
• Opportunity to work with a supportive team in a fast‑paced environment.
• Career growth and advancement.
• Family owned for 135+ years.

As a Sales Account Manager, you bring value to Burkhart clients by providing expert advice on dental merchandise, equipment and service in a way that supports both client and Burkhart success. Your primary focus is on merchandise and small equipment sales to your assigned clients, while growing sales within your existing clients and with new clients.

You will drive the sales cycle, including driving equipment and service sales volume by working closely with your Equipment Specialist and Service Technicians to nurture current client relationships, developing new and existing clients and sales opportunities and seeing each client through the sales process. Your integrity, dedication to client success and teamwork skills – in addition to your sales skills and knowledge of dental merchandise – are key to success in this role.

This is an outside sales position that may require significant travel depending on the assigned territory.

• SALES GOALS:
  You consistently meet volume, growth and margins for assigned product lines at or above company‑specified targets.
• SALES GROWTH:
  You consistently prospect for new clients and network to grow our business, including meeting new Supply Savings Guarantee (SSG) goals.
• FULL SERVICE UTILIZATION:
  Your clients utilize Burkhart for all three facets of business; equipment, merchandise, & service.
• EXCEPTIONAL CLIENT
  
  EXPERIENCE:
  
  You go above and beyond to provide an exceptional client experience. Your communication and customer service skills are effective, respectful and consistently of the highest quality. You demonstrate professionalism while building and maintaining strong relationships. You are an active, engaged, collaborative, and positive teammate/leader with both internal and external customers.
• CO-TRAVEL:
  You co‑travel when available and when applicable with Sales Account Managers, Equipment Specialists, Service Technicians, manufacturer partners, and regional leadership.

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Healthcare Management, or related field is required. Significant additional experience in dental merchandise sales that demonstrates the ability to successfully perform the essential responsibilities may substitute for a degree.
• 4 years of successful outside sales experience in a medical or technical sales field.
• Demonstrated success closing large equipment sales.
• Ability to travel by car and airplane to client offices, meetings, trainings, and events on a frequent basis. Out of town travel of up to 50% may be required depending on territory.
• The associate must maintain a valid driver’s license, maintain a good driving record (as defined by Burkhart’s liability insurance), and be insurable at all times.

• Dental sales experience.

This position has a base salary of $70,000–$80,000 plus 25% commission.

Burkhart Dental Supply is a full‑service dental supply company founded on three major principles: integrity, knowledge, and our client’s success. In addition to supplies, we offer equipment and technology, service and repair, practice consulting, and office planning and design. We are a family and employee‑owned industry leader proudly led by President Lori Burkhart Isbell, the fifth‑generation granddaughter of Founder William

E. Burkhart, DDS. Headquartered in Tacoma, Washington, Burkhart has 400 associates, ten regional divisions in nineteen locations, and three…