Sales Outreach Specialist - Neurosciences, GI, and Cancer

Sales Outreach Specialist

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What you will be doing in this role:

The Sales Outreach Specialist is responsible for successfully promoting the use of Cedars-Sinai specialty services to referring entities including physicians, physician groups, and IPAs. This role focuses on Eastern and Southern Los Angeles County with additional light regional travel. The Specialist leads and participates in sales activities, and provides strong customer service resulting in increased specialty care referrals to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (CSMC). The incumbent understands and stays abreast of the specialty services, programs and products offered by Cedars-Sinai and promotes and shares this information to potential referral sources. Job duties include:

• Sells and promotes Cedars-Sinai Services, Programs and Physicians by organizing offsite presentations, making cold calls, warm calls and scheduling face-to-face office visits with the objective of raising awareness about Cedars-Sinai services and programs to increase referrals.
• Serves as the account lead for referring entities, tailors sales strategies and approaches based on client needs, and acts as a liaison between the account/referring entities and Service Lines/specialty areas.
• Keeps abreast of new programs and services offered by each Service Line. Communicates all needs from referral sources to appropriate CSMC/CSMF entities in a timely manner.
• Effectively handles referral related issues and problem solves based on needs, including resolving claims and service issues.
• Collaborates with the Managed Care team, referring entities and health plans to initiate or recommend new components for existing contracts in addition to LOA's and MOU's.
• Participates in team discussions to identify where there are opportunities to leverage relationships and streamline approaches.

Qualifications

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, business management, marketing, or related field required.
• Minimum of 3 years of healthcare industry sales experience. Must understand healthcare reimbursement and contracting.
• The clinical focus areas for this role are Neurosciences, GI, and Cancer, so experience in those areas is a plus.
• Ability to call regularly on clients in eastern and southern Los Angeles County regularly and to occasional regional visits.

Why work here?

We take pride in hiring the best employees. Our dedicated staff reflects the culturally and ethnically diverse community we serve. They are proof of our dedication to creating a dynamic, inclusive environment that fuels innovation and the gold standard of patient care we strive for. Cedars-Sinai is an EEO employer. Cedars-Sinai does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of the race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition (cancer-related or genetic characteristics or any genetic information), marital status, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, age (40 or older), military and/or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal or state law.