Role Description
As a Sales Account Manager with a portfolio of healthcare clients, you’ll be the primary sales contact and trusted advisor responsible for developing long-term relationships, ensuring adoption, minimizing churn, and identifying opportunities to grow each account.
Your Core Responsibilities
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Retention First:
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Develop and deliver proactive engagement strategies, health checks, and business reviews.
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Analyze product usage and satisfaction to ensure renewals and long-term value.
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Identify risk signals early and take action to mitigate churn.
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Negotiate contracts that are mutually beneficial to both the customer and Elsevier.
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Strategic Expansion:
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Identify upselling and expansion opportunities aligned with customer goals.
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Position additional Clinical Solutions products to meet emerging needs through consultative selling.
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Lead sales motions from discovery through negotiation and closing.
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Relationship Management:
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Build deep, trusted relationships with stakeholders across clinical, administrative, and IT functions.
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Serve as a consultative partner aligned to client objectives.
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Study market trends and become an industry expert within your designated health system region.
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Sales Execution & Enablement:
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Own the end-to-end sales process for renewals and expansions.
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Coach sales executives on expansion opportunities that meet customer needs.
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Accurately forecast and manage pipeline using Salesforce CRM.
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Internal Collaboration:
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Work closely with Sales Executives and Customer Success to drive results.
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Share market feedback and help shape product improvements.
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May support coaching, mentoring and training of new team members.
Qualifications
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2+ years of experience in healthcare sales or account management – ideally selling SaaS technology or information solutions to hospitals or health systems.
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Proven success in renewal management, upselling, or cross-selling.
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Confidence when presenting to and influencing clinical, operational, and executive stakeholders.
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Strong presentation, communication, and strategic thinking skills.
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Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
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Skilled in using Salesforce CRM and Microsoft Office tools (Excel, PowerPoint, Word).
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Bachelor’s degree required; MBA is a plus.
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Adopts sales methodologies such as MEDDPICC, Challenger, Miller Heiman and/or Franklin Covey within your workflow.
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Be able to travel overnight, generally up to 30% of the time or based upon the needs of the business and our customers.
Benefits
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Comprehensive health, retirement, and family benefits.
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A flexible, remote-first work culture.
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Career growth and learning opportunities.
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A diverse, mission-driven team passionate about healthcare.
Company Description
Elsevier is a global leader in health and science information, providing over 25% of the world’s clinical content. Our Clinical Solutions help millions of healthcare professionals make evidence-based decisions that improve patient outcomes.