Neurology Account Manager, Parkinsons

Job Description Summary

Job Description Summary
At GE Healthcare (GEHC) we deliver precision health to improve patient lives in moments that matter.

Our Pharmaceutical Diagnostics business, a division of GE Healthcare, is a leading supplier of diagnostic imaging agents used in X-Ray, CT, ultrasound, SPECT and PET imaging to provide deep insight that enables clinicians to make confident diagnostic and treatment decisions for patients. Close to a quarter of a million patients every day are imaged using a Contrast Media or Molecular Imaging agents provided or produced by GE Healthcare.

As a Neurology Zone Manager, you will be responsible to shape the Go To Market Strategy for our SPECT Imaging Tracer DaTscan and our quantification software DaTQUANT. In addition, you will be responsible to ensure high levels of collaboration with your Alzheimers Zone Manager counterpart to ensure our Sales Strategies are aligned as we look to build out our portfolio across the country.

This position is accountable to grow sales revenue, drive product differentiation and commercial strategy for the Parkinsons care area within the GEHC Pharmaceutical Diagnostics portfolio. You will drive commercial excellence in your regional market, as you lead an experienced sales team responsible for selling to hospitals, imaging centers and educating referring physicians. You will work cross-functionally with your Sales Manager counterparts leading other product categories to drive holistic solutions that support customers and drive clinical adoption across the GE HealthCare portfolio.

Job Description

You will have the opportunity to work with a diverse range of target customers (Neurologists, Psychiatrists, Geriatricians, Internal Medicine, Primary Care, Pharmacists, Nurses, Radiologists, Imaging Managers) in a variety of settings (specialty clinics, primary care offices, private practices, hospitals, clinics, imaging centers) to advance solutions to unmet needs with audiences of varying levels of sophistication and understanding about the need for diagnostic solutions in evaluating and diagnosing motor, dementia and other causes of cognitive decline.

The territory geography is the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Northern Idaho)

Essential Responsibilities, include, but are not limited to:

• Develop business plans and execution strategies for key imaging centers and referring physicians
• Pre-call planning and in-call questioning to understand customer needs, craft solutions and drive utilization
• Collaborate with market access support teams to optimize payor contract implementation and satisfaction across imaging centers and hospitals
• Monitor territory plan performance, communicate results and action steps to all cross-functional partners
• Develop deep knowledge of the diagnostic algorithms and care pathways used by physicians to evaluate patients with neurodegenerative diseases who are being evaluated for Parkinson's Disease, Essential Tremors or other causes of neurodegenerative decline
• Understand and clearly communicate Pharmaceutical Diagnostic’s Neurology team’s strategy, goals and planning to all cross-functional team members and customers, including how our imaging scans fits into GE Healthcare vision and goals for better patient care
• Account Management of a cross-functional territory that includes opening up hospital / imaging centers to offer imaging services that utilize DaTscan
• Generating patient referrals by educating community physicians and specialists (push/pull) about this new diagnostic tool via in-service, speaker programs, etc.
• Create relationships with key targets that convey valuable information in condensed timeframes and creatively earn access rights to difficult to see physicians
• Compiling lists of prospective customers and sales leads; follow up as necessary
• Working with account managers to increase prospects and drive closure of opportunities
• Making cold calls to potential customers where required
• Providing pricing strategy, managing contracts, and ensuring pricing compliance for segment opportunities
• Deliver solutions. Sell and manage relationship with between assigned pharmacies and customers
• Forecasting orders and sales of assigned territory and submit monthly report
• Representing the company at trade association meetings to promote product and company
• Achieve individual sales targets for the assigned territory
• Develop deep knowledge of DaTscan, DaTQUANT and other portfolio products in order to articulate the key selling messages to all relevant customers
• Demonstrate understanding of the imaging marketplace including business goals, Nuclear Medicine and PET products and equipment used in hospitals and independent imaging centers.
• Address most product-related questions and promptly locate answers/experts for questions he/she cannot answer or which must be answered by an expert

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