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Primary Function of Position:
The Commercial Excellence Director is a senior leadership role and member of the regional Leadership Team, responsible for driving rigor and standardization across core sales processes to improve execution and sustain growth. The role elevates sales and capital discipline by embedding best practices, strengthening capabilities, and closing critical gaps, while enabling frontline leaders and influencing cross-functional stakeholders to translate strategy into consistent field execution.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Drive commercial rigor and standardization of core sales processes (pipeline management, account targeting, capital and clinical sales pathways, sustainable procedure growth) to improve execution consistency
- Elevate sales fundamentals across all sales roles (clinical and capital) by teaching and embedding best practices. Teach and measure region wide competency and efficiency by role to ensure fundamental sales skills are scaled across the region.
- Strengthen capital sales discipline by improving qualification of opportunities, contracting readiness, negotiation strategies, and executive-level communication in customer interactions.
- Identify and prioritize key commercial capability gaps, deploy plans to address and engaging targeted interventions (training, coaching, field enablement) towards measurable business impact.
- Increase frontline leadership effectiveness by enabling Directors to reinforce process discipline, coach teams in the field, and sustain high-performance behaviors.
- Influence cross-functional and clinical stakeholders to expand capital opportunities, strengthen clinical engagement, and develop reference centers and KOLs.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Experience:
- Demonstrated ability to maximize sales teams in the marketplace
- Minimum 7 years’ experience of well-rounded sales management experiences in positions of increasing responsibility, with a focus on rapidly developing new markets and teams.
- Demonstrated ability to execute, teach and transfer skills for capital, clinical and sales processes.
- Translating clinical, economic and strategic value propositions into useful formats for various customer segments/stakeholders, departments and sales teams
- Combined capital and clinical sales experience
- Demonstrated collaboration and results through multiple departments and organizational levels
- Developed and executed surgeon and executive KOL and Society strategies based on identified value
- Developed and executed programs designed to drive both a capital and procedural / product level sale across customer segments/stakeholders
- Developed and executed market education programs that were implemented through hospitals to targeting patients, physicians and surgeons
- Demonstrated ability to develop the pathway to achieve through an organization, project manage through execution and measure ultimate results
- Understanding of, or ability to quickly evaluate, local market demands and pricing requirements to provide insights to up-stream marketing
- Fluent in English
- Ability to travel up to 75% with the potential of international.
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We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.
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This position may be filled at a different job level than listed here depending on
business need and/or on the selected candidate’s experience, knowledge and skills.
Compensation will be based primarily on the job level at which the role is filled and the
candidate’s qualifications, consistent with applicable law.
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