District Sales Manager – Diabetes Care Division

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About the role

  • District Sales Manager leading Abbott’s Ontario diabetes-care sales team. Managing representatives, revenue, budgets, stakeholders, and market execution.

Responsibilities

  • Manage a team of sales representatives to achieve maximum sales revenue in the assigned Ontario geography
  • Serve as the communication link between head office staff and the sales force
  • Complete sales-force information requests, including TAMs and territory business plans
  • Clarify, communicate, and update territory goals, expectations, and priorities
  • Track actual results against goals and update territory and district strategic action plans
  • Maintain contact with key customers, healthcare professionals, pharmacies, and key influencers
  • Recommend actions to senior management based on stakeholder needs and market developments
  • Ensure representatives follow Abbott policies and procedures
  • Help representatives manage territory expenses, budgets, and samples; manage district expenses within budget
  • Ensure marketing programs are properly executed
  • Develop, coach, train, motivate, and retain sales representatives
  • Support succession planning and individual career development plans
  • Promote team building, open communication, and business-building idea sharing
  • Communicate market developments to Marketing and Canada operations staff
  • Conduct conference calls, district meetings, and sales representative training sessions
  • Maintain communication with customers and distributor sales forces
  • Provide written follow-up after working with representatives
  • Provide input to financial planning and product forecasts
  • Participate in account collections as required to achieve the financial DSO goal
  • Complete regional administrative responsibilities, including expense reports, TAMs, and business plans
  • Lead development, implementation, and updating of territory plans
  • Assist with customer proposals and tenders
  • Develop and maintain relationships with key opinion leaders and stakeholders

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in business or health sciences
  • Minimum of 8 years of experience, including a minimum of 2 years of supervisory experience
  • Knowledge of labour laws
  • Abbott Leadership Certificate covering Recruiting, Employee Relations and Performance Excellence; completion required within 1 year of hire
  • Valid Ontario driver’s license
  • Ability to travel up to 50%
  • Ability to quickly identify issues through effective probing skills and general business understanding
  • Ability to provide representatives with tools and direction to solve problems independently
  • Ability to motivate representatives and gain buy-in to challenging goals
  • Good knowledge of competitive services and products
  • Ability to diagnose customer issues and take appropriate action
  • Honesty and integrity
  • Ability to balance constituent interests and manage short- and long-term priorities

Benefits

  • Career development with an international company
  • Access to work that matters, growth, learning, and opportunities to care for yourself and family
  • Company recognition as a great place to work and a best workplace for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

SeniorLead

Salary

CA$120,000 - CA$168,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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