Strategic Account Activation Lead - MARS

Strategic Account Activation Lead

The Strategic Account Activation Lead serves as a professional sales leader in building and maintaining a profitable and proactive relationship with assigned strategic accounts; specifically, group purchasing organizations (GPO's) and corporate accounts at our company's Animal Health Area business level, that support our company's Animal Health products and services in their offerings to veterinarians and customers. The Strategic Account Activation Lead focuses on building strong relationships with strategic account stakeholders at the regional and field sales organization level to understand their business model, unique value offerings and partnership opportunities. The Strategic Account Activation Lead will serve as the conduit between c-suite strategic account activation, regional level leadership and field level execution, responsible for working with the area teams to translate strategy into sales results. This role will cover the MARS accounts across the US market. Reporting to the Area Business Leader, the Strategic Account Activation Lead is responsible for developing a deep understanding of account goals, needs, and pain points to drive growth and ensure stability within their strategic account base. The individual will work collaboratively with our company's Animal Health field sales leadership teams, Strategic Account Managers and territory sales representatives and play a critical role in supporting our customer centric business model. This position is responsible for accelerating occupancy and sales of key Animal Health products, supporting pull-through activities relative to the aligned strategy, and ensuring that our company's Animal Health is viewed as bringing value and technical innovations aligned to our strategic focus - The Science of Healthier Animals. This position works collaboratively with the sales and marketing organizations, to drive outcomes and actions, and to ensure accountability for shared organizational commitments. The Strategic Account Activation Lead discovers field level opportunities by leveraging analytics to drive accountability and uncover opportunities to maximize growth. Additionally, this position is responsible for understanding and utilizing market insights to drive opportunities and position for our company's Animal Health as an industry leader. The Strategic Account Activation Lead contributes to a best-in-class Sales and Commercial Operations team by actively contributing to a culture that promotes innovation, continuous improvement, a customer-focused mindset, and values feedback and inclusion. The Strategic Account Activation Lead advocates for our company's Animal Health with an ability to unite shared values and growth. The individual partners with cross-functional peers to rally internal resources that meet customer needs, provide value, and retain our company's industry position. The Strategic Accounts Activation Lead also influences senior leadership to think and respond innovatively to industry and account trends and opportunities identified through direct experience and market data.

Strategic responsibilities may include, but are not limited to :

• Execute sales strategies within assigned accounts and communicate delivered strategies to our company's Animal Health Sales leaders
• Identify marketing opportunities across teams for partnership and shepherd the opportunities to completion
• Responsible for developing and clearly articulating the value of our full partnership with strategic account decision makers to elevate mutually beneficial outcomes
• Candidate possesses professional and advanced presentation skills, focused on providing solutions for the customer
• The Strategic Account Activation Lead will utilize "other centered selling" in their approach to the customer, with an advanced skillset in developing business planning capabilities with the outcome of maximizing sales performance within the assigned geography

Operational Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to :

Leadership Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to :

Organizational Network and Collaboration

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Minimum Qualifications :

Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-