Manager/Associate Director, Business Development (North East) Job in Durham 27701, North Carolina US
PURPOSE
Secure and retain business through professional, consultative, proactive sales activities directed at decision-makers and decision influencers for one of our enterprise accounts in the US clinical sponsors.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Actively prospect and leverage potential new business opportunities within specified customer account(s).
Cultivate strong, long-term relationships with key decision-makers within Account and develop in-depth knowledge of the customer organization, including a through understanding of their business goals and objectives,
Maintain general knowledge of all Quintiles services for appropriate cross-sell opportunities and work collaboratively with member of the Quintiles BD groups for all services.
Aggressively pursue awareness of competitive activities, positioning and pricing, which includes specific reasons for awards and non-awards.
Analyze potential opportunities and develop sales plans for each target account. Ensure appropriate strategy/solution is proposed to customer. Monitor actions and results against plans.
Coordinate with contracts and proposals to develop proposal.
Work with operations and functional managers to identify sales team and prepares and leads the sales presentation. Educate team participants in customer culture, operational needs/methods and sales techniques needed to close the sale.
Handle follow-up related to the sale and drive completion of contractual documents.
Adapt successful strategies and tactics to meet market demands and financial targets.
Maintain high visibility within customer organization. Monitor customer satisfaction by communicating regularly with customer
Plan and coordinate all customer sales activities.
Record all customer sales related activities in CRM system.
Prepare sales activity report for Sales Management as required.
Accept and agree to sales goals and achieve those goals annually
Serve as a liaison between the customer and technical and operational groups at Quintiles, Inc.