Associate Sales Representative (Albuquerque, NM)

The Trauma Associate Sales Representative is an entry-level sales role responsible for supporting the sales team within an assigned territory with installations, trouble-shooting and maintenance, demo inventory setup and customer in service. Other responsibilities may include transporting customer inventory between accounts and covering cases for sales reps within certain accounts. The position requires the ability to assimilate and learn a high level of technical information as it relates to surgery and procedures.

This is an On-call role requiring you to work early mornings and/or late nights, including some weekends and holidays.

Responsibilities:

• Learns and maintains a high level of technical information as it relates to orthopaedic trauma surgery and procedures.
• Gains and maintains an acceptable level of knowledge of the Trauma, Extremities and applicable Recon (Universal Products) product lines, business objectives, pricing strategies, and proven sales techniques for these products.
• Assists with inventory moves between accounts.
• Covers Cases for reps at various selected accounts and provides moderate sales support.
• Provides technical information to surgeons consistent with product user manuals
• Assists and trains hospital personnel in the proper use and care of product and equipment.
• Completes structured product/sales training assessments.
• Supports the district sales targets by supporting existing accounts as well as developing and executing a plan to develop new business opportunities.
• Meets expected scoring for all classroom and on the job training assessments.
• Establishes regular performance evaluations to ensure targeted development of the essential quantitative and qualitative metrics for territory growth (technical/clinical/procedural/relational/financial).

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
• Licenses/ Certifications: Requires valid driver's license applicable to current residence to facilitate travel requirements of the position
• Experience: Prefers a minimum (2) two years sales experience
• Competences: Requires strong PC applications skills to include proficiency in various software applications such as spreadsheets, databases, and word processing, preferably Word for Windows, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.
• Requires a dynamic, assertive individual with technical-oriented leadership ability and well- developed communication and presentation skills
• Requires ability to get to all customers' operations and facilities via air, own automobile and local transport Requires the ability to meet deadlines, frequent assignment changes, periodic heavy workload, rapidly changing technology and dynamic business growth
• Requires the ability to operate complex medical equipment
• Physical Demands: Travel Requirements: 50-75%

Smith+Nephew provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability.