About Cencora
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Job Details
The Generic Sales Specialist Remote leverages the Richardson Sales model to develop, maintain, and implement long-term business partnerships with their assigned customers with a heavy emphasis on contract generic growth and the overall Cencora Suite of offerings. This includes providing industry knowledge, total value explanation and recapturing leak sale orders that provide value for the customer and Cencora. Strong collaboration with your assigned field sales counterpart is necessary to identify target accounts: existing compliance issues and high potential opportunities.
Positions available in the Eastern, Central and Pacific time zones
- Drives Generic sales in a targeted group of accounts.
- Achieves monthly sales/activity goals established in conjunction with department counterparts. This may include but not limited to call volume, % of calls leading to an order, order volume and revenue.
- Monitors and analyzes reports and data to measure profitability growth of Contracted Generics; develops and implements strategies to ensure continued success of that growth.
- Demonstrates meticulous follow-through when interacting with customers; curates solutions and sales messages to meet the customer’s needs and continuously follow-ups to capture additional business and revenue opportunity. Use of SalesForce will be mandatory to update customer activity to ensure visibility to field sales counterparts.
- Updates existing customers on any new programs, promotional activity, promote different pricing strategies, new/existing products and services as well as inquires and assists with any current issues or unresolved problems.
- Collaborates with Field Sales, specifically the Sales Executive role, to create account-specific strategies taking into consideration such factors as customer's vision and goals, current Contract Generic sales and compliance, and generics best practices.
- Develops a deep understanding of customer needs through dialogue; develops competitive knowledge at both the market level (e.g., services provided by competitors) and the specific customer level (e.g., what is the specific competitive environment for this customer) to teach the customer and tailor the solution allowing for targeted and appropriate application of Cencora Suite of Solutions.
- Partners with Corporate Generics team and other Generic Directors to implement a single, consistent Contracted Generics approach.
- Aligns on a single set of components to incorporate in account-specific compliance and new sales strategies.
- Supports and executes individual programs to drive Contracted Generic PRxO sales (e.g., new product launches, brand drug conversion, compliance efforts.
- Provides feedback, industry knowledge and specific recommendations to Corporate Generics team on programs, policies, products and prices.
- Must be willing to travel on a limited basis to annual meetings.
- Performs related duties as assigned.
The salary ranges listed below do not include any Incentive-Based Commission available for this role
EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
Requires broad training in fields such as business administration, sales, marketing or similar program or equivalent combination of experience and education. Normally requires minimum of two (2) plus year’s directly related experience. Experience in pharmaceutical industry is desirable.
MINIMUM SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITY REQUIREMENTS:
- Two years of phone/call center experience
- Ability to adjust to daily product/procedure changes
- Ability to build and maintain customer relationships/committed to customer satisfaction
- Competent understanding of management, sales planning and goal setting, successful strategic and selling techniques, and related information
- Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, for the purpose of disseminating information
- Strong interpersonal skills; ability to develop and maintain cooperative working and business relationships
- Ability to interpret customer financial data and develop successful strategies to deal with financial issues that are identified
- Ability to interpret industry trends and competitive information and develop strategies and tactics to respond to changes in the marketplace
- Strong creativity skills; focused and disciplined
- Competent understanding of Customer Value Chain
- Working knowledge of computers necessary to operate effectively with company systems and programs
What Cencora offers
We provide compensation, benefits, and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support our team members’ ability to live with purpose every day. In addition to traditional offerings like medical, dental, and vision care, we also provide a comprehensive suite of benefits that focus on the physical, emotional, financial, and social aspects of wellness. This encompasses support for working families, which may include backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave. To encourage your personal growth, we also offer a variety of training programs, professional development resources, and opportunities to participate in mentorship programs, employee resource groups, volunteer activities, and much more. For details, visit https://www.virtualfairhub.com/cencora
Full timeSalary Range*
$42,600 - 60,940*
This Salary Range reflects a National Average for this job. The actual range may vary based on your locale. Ranges in Colorado/California/Washington/New York/Hawaii/Vermont/Minnesota/Massachusetts/Illinois State-specific locations may be up to 10% lower than the minimum salary range, and 12% higher than the maximum salary range.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law.
The company’s continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.
Cencora is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the employment process which are consistent with legal requirements. If you wish to request an accommodation while seeking employment, please call 888.692.2272 or email hrsc@cencora.com. We will make accommodation determinations on a request-by-request basis. Messages and emails regarding anything other than accommodations requests will not be returned
