Sales Manager Netherlands, Cranial Spinal Technologies

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

Our Spinal Therapies offer a full ecosystem for spinal and cranial surgeries (Spine therapies, enabling technologies, navigation, 3D imaging, and cranial and spinal robots). To support our business within Cranial and Spinal Technologies (CST) portfolio for the Netherlands, we are currently looking for a customer-oriented Sales Manager to drive and implement strategic direction, objectives, and targets for the Spinal Technologies businesses in line with the regional strategy.

In this role, you will develop and coach a diverse, inclusive, and high performing team that will achieve ambitious sales and profit targets. With the team you will spot business opportunities and negotiate business deals. You will report to the CST Sales Manager Netherlands. At least 50-75% of travel is expected across the Netherlands.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Drive and implement strategic direction, objectives and targets for the Spinal Technologies businesses in line with the regional strategy
• Achieve sales revenue and profit targets for the Netherlands for the Spinal technologies and enabling technologies (P&L responsibility)
• Lead, coach and develop a diverse, inclusive and high performing team of Therapy Sales representatives, and work in close collaboration with KAM (Key Account Managers) and Capital Application Specialists
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with Hospital key stakeholders (clinicians, economical etc.)
• Support the sales organization in securing and closing strategic opportunities within key accounts, negotiating larger deals, and managing tenders effectively
• Oversee the day-to-day activities of the sales team in the Netherlands to ensure the successful execution of the overall sales strategy
• Build a strong internal network with Key functions (contract & tendering, customer care, finance, etc.).

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Master’s Degree in Business or Life Sciences and 5+ years of successful professional experience in biomedical or related industry
• Proven successful experience in leading and coaching people with diverse backgrounds, within a Pharmaceutical or Medical Device Company
• Teamwork oriented and interested in working in a multicultural and cross-functional environment
• Proven ability to lead commercial negotiations and managing tenders
• Strong business acumen and networking skills
• Self-motivated, organized, solution-oriented with a positive attitude
• Fluency in both Dutch and English.

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package

A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.

Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people.

We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Who We Are

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.

Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people.

We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

What We Do

We change lives. Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives.

We build extraordinary solutions as one team. With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough.

This life-changing career is yours to engineer. By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will…

• Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world
• Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities
• Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning

How We Are Different

These commitments set our team apart from the rest:

Experiences that put people first. Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need.

Life-transforming technologies. No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms.

Better outcomes for our world. Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls.

Insight-driven care. Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care

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