About the Role
The Account Executive role is responsible for retaining and growing their territory of existing customers/practices in oncology. This includes working with the customer to understand and identify the strategic vision and objectives within the customer organization while aligning McKesson products and services to ensure those business objectives are achieved.
Responsibilities
- Strategizes, prioritizes, and executes sales activities to create opportunities with new and existing practices, while leading Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs), conducting monthly customer meetings, and facilitating end-of-quarter business discussions to drive growth, strengthen partnerships, and ensure alignment on customer goals and performance.
- Understands the practice’s business challenges, strategies, and priorities and how McKesson Provider Solutions can help address those needs.
- Identifies the most strategically important customers, decision makers/influencers and personally develops relationships with them.
- Actively participates in a continuous customer planning process, in assessing customer value as well as by planning and shaping account strategies.
- Fully engages the practice in planning the account activities.
- Proactively develops and expands network to generate opportunities.
- Understands practice processes, buying cycles and decision drivers as well as their current and future needs.
- Articulates ROI/value of products, services, and solutions.
- Meets the needs and concerns of the practices—considers how actions or plans will affect practices; responds quickly to meet needs and resolves problems; avoids over commitments.
- Sets up customer feedback systems—Implements effective ways to monitor and evaluate concerns, issues, and satisfaction within each practice and to anticipate the practices’ needs.
- Educates the practices—Shares information with practices to build their understanding of issues and capabilities; is regarded by the practice as the thought leader in this industry.
- Builds collaborative relationships—Builds rapport and trusted advisor relationships with the practices; demonstrates empathy towards the customer in all situations and uses that empathy to successfully resolve issues; establishes regular meetings to be in front of the customer.
- Increases number of opportunities, average deal value, win rate while reducing sales cycle time.
- Builds a sales pipeline of high-quality opportunities and disqualifying unlikely and poorly fit opportunities.
- Prepares accurate and timely sales forecasts.
- Conducts win/loss analysis and sharing insights with other stakeholders.
- Understands the practice’s decision drivers from their perspective (options available, financial benefit/costs) and the implications that buying decisions have on both McKesson and the practice.
- Draws upon knowledge of competitors and payers to communicate valuable insight on those issues that deliver results for both McKesson Provider Solutions and the practice.
- Understands Provider Solutions business units (BU) and their relationships to each other within Provider Solutions and McKesson.
- Prepares and delivers Quarterly Business Reviews; interprets the data to provide valuable insight and help the practice make decisions to increase profitable revenue for both the practice and McKesson Provider Solutions.
- Identifies, collects, and organizes data for analysis and decision-making; articulates trends in the healthcare industry and develops new opportunities.
- Understands McKesson products and value-added services and how they compare/contrast to the competition.
- Knows how the competition positions their products and/or services in the market and to the customer and can leverage the weaknesses to McKesson Provider Solutions' advantage.
- Jointly identifies and drives the strategic vision and partnership between the customer and McKesson, ensuring alignment in expectations for the product/service and the desired outcomes.
- Establishes multiple levels of relationship with the customer (high and wide: at the user level, department head level, and senior management), engaging Sr. Leadership when appropriate.
- Day-to-day account management, relationship building, selling, and troubleshooting.
- Acts as both the internal and external customer liaison, serving as the customer advocate, including monitoring, and supporting all activity and chasing problem resolution through the appropriate part of our organization and escalating customer issues quickly if problems are not being addressed sufficiently.
- Works with operations, finance, customer care, GPO, generics, sales effectiveness, contracts, and legal among other internal teams.
- Analyzes sales reports and customer trends to proactively identify and capture opportunities.
- Identifies opportunities for cross-selling new products across McKesson, selling add-on services and working with the sales team to identify opportunities and drive them to closure.
- Participates in and deploys training and education key learnings.
- Books and reports travel and expenses.
- Documents activity, customer notes/status updates, maintains current and potential customer profiles, and utilizes Salesforce to complete/adhere to company processes.
Requirements
- Degree or equivalent and typically requires 4+ years of relevant experience.
- 4+ years’ progressive experience in sales or service.
- 4+ years’ experience with professional communication with ability to express complex messages, sell services through written/verbal communications to a variety of practice stakeholders (physicians and admin staff).
- Healthcare experience in Oncology or Rheumatology or multi-specialty.
- Intermediate proficiency with MS Office, Salesforce.com or CRM, ideally with SAP experience.
- Experience with delivering customer quarterly business reviews or analyzing performance and communicating value to customers.
- Demonstrated success in customer growth and retention.
- Demonstrated capabilities in establishing executive level relationships and conducting executive-level meetings and presentations.
- Demonstrates leadership qualities and the ability to build and coordinate a team of professionals to accomplish a common goal/objective to deliver customer value.
- Experience with pharmaceutical products (preferably oncology) and buy-and-bill model.
- Ability to travel up to 50% within the territory, mostly day travel.
- Must have a valid driver's license with a clean, active, unrestricted driving record/MVR.
- Must be authorized to work in the US unrestricted – This position is not eligible for sponsorship.
- Must live within the territory.
Skills
- Sales
- Service
- Professional Communication
- Healthcare Sales
- Oncology
- Rheumatology
- Multi-specialty
- MS Office
- Salesforce.com
- CRM
- SAP
- Customer Quarterly Business Reviews
- Performance Analysis
- Value Communication
- Customer Growth
- Customer Retention
- Executive Relationship Building
- Executive Meetings
- Executive Presentations
- Leadership
- Team Coordination
- Pharmaceutical Products
- Buy-and-bill model
Location
- East Region
- New Jersey
- New York
- Philadelphia
- Pennsylvania
Work Type
- Remote/Home Office
Experience Level
- 4+ years relevant experience
- 4+ years progressive experience in sales or service
- 4+ years experience with professional communication
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in business related field preferred or equivalent work experience with an emphasis in Business, Health Administration, Communications, or other healthcare related field.
Salary/Compensations
- $139,000 - $231,600 Total Target Cash (TTC)
Benefits
- Annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered.
About the Company
- McKesson is an impact-driven, Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare.
- We are known for delivering insights, products, and services that make quality care more accessible and affordable.
- Here, we focus on the health, happiness, and well-being of you and those we serve – we care.
- What you do at McKesson matters.
- We foster a culture where you can grow, make an impact, and are empowered to bring new ideas.
- Together, we thrive as we shape the future of health for patients, our communities, and our people.
- If you want to be part of tomorrow’s health today, we want to hear from you.
Equal Opportunity
- McKesson provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age, genetic information, or any other legally protected category.
- McKesson is committed to being an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers including job seekers with disabilities.
