Sales Associate Director, Consumer Health Milano

Sales Associate Director, Consumer Health
Milano
Lombardia, Milano

Sales Associate Director, Consumer Health

Hierarchical and/or functional reporting: Sales Director

Location: Milan - hybrid

IQVIA (NYSE:IQV) is a leading global provider of advanced analytics, technology solutions, and clinical research services to the life sciences industry.

IQVIA creates intelligent connections across all aspects of healthcare through its analytics, transformative technology, big data resources and extensive domain expertise.

IQVIA Connected Intelligence delivers powerful insights with speed and agility — enabling customers to accelerate the clinical development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments that improve healthcare outcomes for patients.

With approximately 79, 000 employees, IQVIA conducts operations in more than 100 countries.

We are currently looking for a Sales Associate Director, Consumer Health.

**Responsibilities**:

- Manages commercial relationship with assigned accounts for the full range of IQVIA products and services, to achieve assigned revenue goals

- Develops and maintains a deep and wide knowledge of the assigned accounts and is able to understand their priorities and needs, turning them into business opportunities

- Anticipates clients' needs and, in collaboration with other departments (mainly Consulting, Technology and Marketing) develops and presents proposed solutions to client's complex business issues

- acts as an advisor on marketing, market research, sales management, industry issues, trends and IQVIA product and consulting capabilities

- Acts a key role towards IQVIA BU/Regional CH stakeholders and communities

- Coordinates a commercial team, mentoring less experienced members of sales team on selling, account management and negotiation skills

- Constantly monitors client satisfaction and works with Sales Director and Client Service team to achieve and maintain a high level of customer satisfaction

- Constantly monitors target achievement for the sales team, identifying possible issues and defining remediation plan

- Timely updates CRM platform with regard to opportunity pipeline, contacts and call plans

- Develops and executes account plans within assigned accounts

- Effectively and timely manages contract renewals and subscriptions

**Education**:

BA or BSc preferably in Economics

Professional experience:

- Solid and extensive commercial experience in B2B sales with responsibility for managing complex deals with clients

- Previous experience in a Management Consultancy is highly desirable

- Clear and demonstrable experience of winning new business from new and existing accounts and achieving revenue & customer satisfaction targets.

- Previous experience of account management, ability to communicate, present and influence all levels of the organization

- Proven expertise in account planning and accurate sales forecasting

- An understanding of Social Media and how to use it to help develop business would be highly desirable

- Knowledge of Consumer Health market will be considered as a plus

Language skills:

Fluency in English (spoken and written)

Personal skills:

- Essential general technical skills and knowledge

- Strong negotiation and consultative selling skills

- An ability to build strong business relationships

- Strong commitment to achieve or exceed assigned goals

- Excellent interpersonal and verbal communication skills

- An attitude to working collaboratively and effectively with others in and across the team to accomplish goals

- Other key personal attributes include drive, self-motivation, energy and tenacity

- Commitment to adhere to IQVIA' values, policies and procedures

- Willingness to travel