Associate Specialty Sales Executive - Nutrition (Remote)

As a leader in the science of nutrition, Nestlé Health Science believes in empowering healthier lives for patients and consumers through a rich product portfolio featuring top brands such as Garden of Life®, Nature’s Bounty®, Vital Proteins®, Nuun®, Persona Nutrition®, BOOST®, Carnation Breakfast Essentials®, Peptamen®, Compleat Organic Blends®, and more, as well as through Aimmune Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company developing therapies to prevent, manage and treat food, GI and metabolic-related diseases.

Our team members are challenged to make a genuine impact and play an integral role in driving the business forward. We embrace a dynamic culture that always puts the consumer first, and where ownership, accountability and agility are celebrated at every level. To help our people thrive, we offer expansive career growth potential, the opportunity to work alongside and learn from talented colleagues with diverse backgrounds and skill sets, and a range of best-in-class benefits.

We have more than 11,000 employees around the world, and products available in over 140 countries.

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**Position Summary:**

This position will have responsibility for driving strategic brand growth among target specialists, prescribers, and new accounts via live virtual and phone interactions that coincide with specific expectations for each (hospitals, teaching facilities, key homecare, developmentally delayed centers/LTC). This will be in partnership with the Specialty Sales Executives in the assigned Areas and in accordance with the strategy & plan. The role is responsible for growing business relationships with key decision makers and influencers. Responsible for focused detailing to specific targets with a carefully defined messaging strategy and call sequence, leveraging business and value solutions based on evidence, and outcome data supporting the entire product portfolio.

**Location:** This role will be based in the Midwest.

**Key Responsibilities:**

• Focus on driving strategic brand growth among target specialists, prescribers, and new accounts via live virtual and phone interactions that coincide with specific expectations for each.

• Meets/exceeds sales and profit objectives in assigned territory/s.

• Set specific growth plans within assigned accounts utilizing SAM, territory routing plans, and cycle plans. Create access points for product availability early in the selling cycle.

• Deliver financial benefits based on the evidence of research that translates to tangible cost saving for targeted accounts.

• Meets/exceeds required call activity to optimize time within accounts, as well as out-patient call activity within the community of the assigned geography, effectively driving specialty sales.

• Identify, prioritize, and drive opportunities to create access, policy, programs, and processes that drive product demand.

• Contribute to meeting/exceeding national specialty sales and profit objectives for all channels.

• Implement Protocols and Pathways for Nutrition for the GI/Critical Care or Pediatric specialty area.

• Shares best practices with the broader sales organization.

• Cultivates and leverages long-term customer relationships including senior level relationships. Builds network of key advocates within assigned accounts, including committee personnel and system advocates for Nestle. Attends key events which local nutrition leaders also attend.

• Understand the healthcare environment and appropriately execute the selling process in a manner that is concise, compliant, professional and persuasive; and which addresses a need and leads the customer to action.

• Demonstrate the ability to handle customer product questions and objections in a way that is consistent with sales training methodology.

• Ability to attend in person meetings, (i.e. national sales meetings, regional meetings, field visits, required trainings).

• Ability to travel 20% **Experience and Education Requirements:**

• Bachelor's degree

• 3+ years medical/clinical selling experience in a hospital setting with demonstrated success in specialty medical products or 5+ years combined experience in sales with demonstrated success and clinical experience

• Consistently meets and exceeds sales targets

• Strong business/financial acumen and negotiation skills

• Ability to demonstrate strategic planning skills as it relates to identification and management of opportunities

**Requisition ID:** 220349

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