Alcon Hiring For Account Manager Retina at Texas, United States Full Time

Job Description

Location: Preferred location for this role is Houston. Territory will cover Houston & Austin, TX; Baton Rouge & New Orleans, Louisiana (LA) and other areas in the geography.
SUMMARY OF POSITION
Alcon is the global leader in eye care, dedicated to helping people see brilliantly. With our 70-plus-year heritage, we are the largest eye care device company in the world – with complementary businesses in Surgical and Vision Care. Being a truly global company, we work in over 70 countries and serve patients in more than 140 countries.
This Vitreoretinal Account Manager will be responsible for selling and achieving quota on full product mix of posterior and combined (CAT/VIT) procedural products. This person will also initiate current and future sales opportunities by educating and building business/professional relationships within major teaching, Surgery Centers and hospitals. The Account Manager will facilitate the strategic training and education of Alcon’s vitreoretinal equipment and consumable portfolio to deliver proper DFU and company messaging to key physicians/residents/fellows to drive present/future advocates of Alcon’s surgical products.
KEY REQUIREMENTS / MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinate all vitreoretinal wet lab and training activities across all Alcon functional groups
• Facilitate demo processes to drive capital equipment and pull-through consumable sales
• Maintain territory administrative records as directed per appropriate IT CRM systems
• Coordinate joint selling opportunities with Cataract and Refractive teammates
• Support and implement Corporate Account contracts
• Coordinate service repairs for Alcon vitreoretinal equipment and reporting of any quality issues from Alcon’s vitreoretinal portfolio to Medical Safety
• Physical ability to transport equipment in and out of surgical facilities for demo purposes
• Ability to meet routine overnight travel requirements given expansive geographies
• Accessible to external customers for routine after hours communications (evenings/weekends) to assist with Alcon vitreoretinal technology questions and needs due to emergency/trauma surgery

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent years of directly related experience (or high school +10 yrs; Assoc.+6 yrs; M.S.)
• 2 Years of relevant experience
• The ability to fluently read, write, understand and communicate in English

Travel Requirements: 50-60% travel within the territory.
Preferred Qualifications/Skills/Experience

• Surgical sales experience including both account management and medical device.
• Ophthalmology / Retina sales experience.

Alcon is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. Alcon takes pride in maintaining a diverse environment and our policies are not to discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. Alcon is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please send an email to [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.