Therapy Sales Specialist, Advanced Surgical Therapies

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

The lifesaving work of medical professionals inspires us. Through partnerships with medical communities around the globe, we create advances in medical devices and supply products to improve lives. From reducing surgery time to accelerating healing, our breakthrough solutions are a vital part of daily healthcare delivery. Through progressive thinking and cutting-edge technologies, Medtronic is well positioned to lead the way in today's rapidly changing healthcare industry.

To support our Advanced Surgical Therapy portfolio for the Southwest Netherlands, we are currently looking for a fulltime customer-oriented field Therapy Sales Specialist with excellent communication skills and a natural ability to spot business opportunities. This is a great challenge for a person with strong relationship management skills and at least 5 years of commercial experience in a hospital environment. This is a rewarding role, in which you can define and execute your own sales strategies and be part of a professional and collegial team!

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

• Main purpose: Implement a range of surgical products and services in hospitals, mainly in the operation room and focused on sales growth. Your customers are existing and potential new hospitals in your territory (focus on South West part of the Netherlands). You take charge of your responsibilities and enjoy working independently. You are given the opportunity to plan your work autonomously, with the focus on achieving your objectives. Your sales manager will support you to achieve your goals.
• Clinical knowledge: Learn and comprehend complex medical and scientific information, and support surgeons and nurses in the correct use of our surgical portfolio (in collaboration with the product marketeers).
• Tender Management: Responsible for tender cases and will work in close collaboration with the tender team, product managers, and sales manager.
• Business Development: Identify sales prospects, prepare action plans, and follow up on new leads and referrals. Interact with purchasing managers/hospital administrators to set up and negotiate broader sales contracts. Maintain customer knowledge by gathering information about account activities and potential, key decision makers, competitive participation, market share, etc.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Bachelor or Master Degree
• Sales experience with a demonstrated track record
• High motivation, sales-driven, enthusiastic attitude, comfortable with change and growth
• Excellent organizational, interpersonal, persuasive, communication and negotiation skills
• Fluency in Dutch and very good level of English
• Advanced presentation and negotiation skills
• Used to work independently with a high level of time management skills
• Service-oriented team player concerned with helping people, business-minded and with an entrepreneurial spirit

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.

For sales reps and other patient-facing field employees, going into a healthcare setting is considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support.

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. 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

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.