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Strategic Account Manager, Enterprise Services

Position Summary:

This is a key commercial role supporting the $500M Global Enterprise Services business for Thermo Fisher Scientific.  This position is responsible for driving significant revenue growth and providing a strong base of users, references and partners essential for Global Enterprise Services to maintain and expand its position to a world leader in enterprise services solutions.  Maintains high-level client relationship management and acts as client liaison during development and delivery of an outsourced solution.

 Position Details:

• Ultimate responsibility to achieve the planned growth for revenue and bookings in the assigned accounts / territory while maintaining or exceeding gross margin goals.
• Collaborates with customers to understand their business needs and strategic objectives, forms relationships with decision-makers and identifies, develops and closes enterprise services business opportunities.
• Builds relationships at multiple levels of account and across all constituents.
• Prospects across accounts to ensure that target opportunities are identified and developed across sites and geographies.
• Qualifies potential opportunities early in the sales cycle and manages the pipeline to ensure that opportunities are pursued in a timely way ensuring Thermo Fisher is invited to all associated RFP’s within their territory as well as driving opportunities for individual proposals or pilot programs outside of an RFP process.
• Provides realistic sales forecasts to management and communicates any significant changes or developments in a proactive and timely manner.
• Ensures client satisfaction by collaborating with other Thermo Fisher business units to provide a single face to the customer and ensuring that any major conflicts with customers are resolved.
• Ensures that management and the account team are kept informed of business requirements and significant developments within accounts and is involved at critical times.
• Owns the account management and ensures that account plans and sales activities are consistent with overall business goals.  Conducts quarterly account reviews to reflect progress and market changes.
• Possesses sufficient technical, operations and business knowledge to present a compelling value proposition to prospects and customers.
• Understands the generic strengths and vulnerabilities of major competitors and develops sales strategies to respond effectively and to develop competitive differentiation.
• Communicates with Product Management to provide customer input on features and feature prioritization requirements for services solutions and products.
• Collaborates with other groups within Thermo Fisher to implement strategies, identify and address cross-selling and synergistic business opportunities and overcome obstacles.
• Build strong collaborative working relationships with the business leaders and counter-parts in all Thermo Fisher commercial channels including corporate accounts, the Customer Channels Group and the direct sales channels for related services business units.
• Works to meet established goal tree items in the areas of revenue growth, profitability, expense control, process optimization, productivity, and customer satisfaction.
• Ensures all activities are carried out in accordance with Thermo Fisher Scientific policies and applicable laws.
• Other duties as assigned.

 Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience.
• 8-12 years of experience and knowledge selling strategic service business solutions.
• Strong collaborative track record, which includes working within a matrix environment along with the ability to find solutions to a common goal.
• Familiarity with commercial operations, relationship management and marketing tools.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral.
• Reflector style – able to learn from mistakes and always wants to achieve best possible performance.
• Advanced PC skills, especially in Microsoft Office products.
• Ability to develop high levels of credibility and forge solid and positive professional relationships with customers, peers, and upper management.
• Self motivated; bias for action.
• Effective negotiating and influencing skills.
• Sales or operations experience in research or clinical laboratories and/or Facilities
• Experienced in driving customer allegiance and growing existing customer base
• Demonstrate Thermo Fisher Scientific values – Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement. 

Location:  This person will be field-based in the Greater Boston area and expected to travel 30-50%.