Sales Consultant, GSS (Kansas City, MO)

Baxter International Inc. • Kansas City, MO

23h • $68,000 - $100,000 • Onsite

About The Position

This is where your work makes a difference. At Baxter, we believe every person—regardless of who they are or where they are from—deserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond. Our Baxter colleagues are united by our Mission to Save and Sustain Lives. Together, our community is driven by a culture of courage, trust, and collaboration. Every individual is empowered to take ownership and make a meaningful impact. We strive for efficient and effective operations, and we hold each other accountable for delivering exceptional results. Here, you will find more than just a job—you will find purpose and pride. Your Role at Baxter THIS IS WHERE you build trust to achieve results As a Sales Consultant for our legacy Hillrom full operating room capital equipment product portfolio (now part of Baxter), you take pride in representing Baxter and our products. Your keen understanding of our deep portfolio of products and belief in the value and quality they provide to patients fuels your confidence. Our customers trust you and appreciate your knowledge and curiosity when finding solutions to meet their needs. You enjoy being on location, building relationships, and establishing trust with the doctors and nurses who use Baxter solutions every day. As our primary connection to the healthcare professionals who rely on our products to save and sustain lives, you are the face and voice of our solutions. You enjoy seeing the connections between teams and how they work together to drive business results. The insights and feedback you share with your team and to cross-functional partners help validate and inform priorities and changes. Working from your home office, you will look to develop and grow the sales of our surgical capital equipment and connected solutions along with other core product categories throughout your territory. With an expert knowledge of your customer’s business and value drivers, you are able to educate customers on product solution differentiators to enable customer success! Home Base: Greater Kansas City, MO area Territory: Iowa, Kansas and Missouri Travel: Up to 75% travel and overnights as needed

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with 3+ years of operating room sales experience (medical device capital equipment experience preferred), OR 8+ years relevant experience.
• Effective influencing skills –ability to understand the needs of, and influence, personnel ranging from nurses to C-level decision makers.
• Outstanding communication, negotiation, organizational, problem solving, facilitation, and presentation skills are essential for success.
• Strong analytical skills - able to optimally supervise sales activity, develop sales plans, understand local market and competitive trends and complete the analysis of sales deals.
• Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.
• We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time

Nice To Haves

• Durable medical equipment solutions selling preferred, operating room integration experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• You will drive the strategic sales of capital products within all surgical solutions’ product categories (lights, booms, surgical tables, operating room integration, and partnership sales) within your given territory.
• Partner with clinical consultants, dedicated product specialists, construction solution architects, corporate and strategic accounts, and product management to offer customers comprehensive end-to-end solutions, including large integrated health system customers (IDNs).
• Full sales cycle execution, including opportunity prioritization, accurate forecasting, qualification of large, sophisticated sales, preparation for customer presentations, professional follow-up, and goal attainment.
• Use data to identify key opportunities, ultimately requiring keen analytical proficiencies.
• Understand and implement consultative selling, uncovering unmet needs and encouraging a solution driven environment.
• Use marketing communications to build efficient promotional, advertising and trade show activity to improve company and product visibility.
• Demonstrate year-over-year backlog growth: Uncover green field opportunities and high-dollar renovations within your assigned territory.
• Ensure that our Surgical Solutions’ product portfolio is specified at all early stages to drive sales orders.

Benefits

• Baxter offers comprehensive compensation and benefits packages for eligible roles.
• Our health and well-being benefits include medical and dental coverage that start on day one, as well as insurance coverage for basic life, accident, short-term and long-term disability, and business travel accident insurance.
• Financial and retirement benefits include the Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), with the ability to purchase company stock at a discount, and the 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan (RSP), with options for employee contributions and company matching.
• We also offer Flexible Spending Accounts, educational assistance programs, and time-off benefits such as paid holidays, paid time off ranging from 20 to 35 days based on length of service, family and medical leaves of absence, and paid parental leave.
• Additional benefits include commuting benefits, the Employee Discount Program, the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and childcare benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level