Associate Director/Director, Sales (Industry)

Position Summary:

Reporting to the VP, Sales the Associate Director, Sales is responsible for expanding the reach of The Academy by growing our member base in a defined segment. This role is an individual contributor role working alongside the broader team.  Industry sellers work with leaders across a broad swath of the healthcare industry including MedTech, Med Device, Life Sciences, Consulting, and more.

Primary Job Duties:

• Develop and execute strategic plan for selling memberships and solutions within an assigned prospect pool
• Drive revenue growth in territory or member pool through acquisition of new members, prioritizing multi-year large scale contracts
• Conduct consultative one-on-one and small group onsite presentations to educate prospective members on our services
• Develop and nurture relationships with CXO audiences
• Leverage understanding of the priorities, challenges, and opportunities within your market segment (Health System or broader Industry) and effectively map to Academy solutions
• Collaborate with other internal departments to facilitate new business
• Work with sales associate on lead generation, pipeline development and logistics
• Facilitate a smooth hand-off of closed business to internal Account Management team while continuing to advise and support on member satisfaction, renewal planning and future growth potential

Minimum Qualifications:

• 2+ years of sales experience in a complex and consultative sales environment or relevant experience in an Association setting
• Knowledge of healthcare industry
• Demonstrated track record of achieving revenue goals and/or quotas
• Salesforce Experience preferred

Interpersonal Skills & Attributes:

• Collaborative
• Customer-focused
• Strategic mindset
• Ability to communicate persuasively with senior executives
• Team approach to working with others
• Attention to detail
• Ability to work independently and as a team member
• Self-directed and resourceful
• Excellent communication and client facing skills
• Excellent organizational skills

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required talk and hear. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, and distance vision. Ability to travel long distances including air travel.