Key Account - Coleraine, United Kingdom - Eakin Healthcare Group

Eakin Healthcare Group

Verified Company

Coleraine, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

ABOUT THE ROLE

Reporting to the Customer Services Manager, Respiratory, the Key Account & Tenders Executive will be the first point of contact for our customers in our key accounts.

These include NHS Supply Chain (UK), Health Service Executive (ROI), Business Services Organisation (NI) and National Services (Scotland).

As part of this role the Key Account & Tenders Executive be responsible for the management and coordination of those tenders, pro-actively seeking new opportunities and working within tight deadlines with a high level of attention to detail.

Other responsibilities will include promotion of new contract awards to the wider commercial team and customers, with concerted contract performance management to maximise revenue generation and contribute to company growth, in addition to providing regular update reports; and coordinate all rich data management.

KEY ACTIVITIES

Key Account ownership

Developing relationships with our key accounts.
Serve as the link of communication between key customers and internal teams.
Acquiring a thorough understanding of key customer needs.
Expanding the relationships with existing customers.
Prepare regular reports of progress and forecasts to internal and external stakeholders using key account metrics.
Host quarterly review meetings with Key Accounts to ensure service requirements are met.
Ensure maximum Revenue Generated through sharing of information and promotion with commercial teams. (Sales & Marketing)

Tenders

Coordinate the entire tender process from expression of interest to bid submission, ensuring deadlines are met through timeline management and chairing of regular status meetings with Commercial Team members to ensure submissions are completed with a high degree of accuracy, on time and in full.
Ownership of tendering and contract performance management, use initiative and creative ideas to improve existing administration structure, reporting, and revenue generation from contracts and framework agreements.
Work closely with the relevant Commercial Team leaders to ensure that tender responses achieve the maximum scoring and review contract awards for continuous improvement opportunities for future bids.
Provide the Commercial Team leaders with notification of awards and unsuccessful bids; such will include a report and coordination of a meeting to agree actions around opportunity value, verification of award pricing and specifications, review of stocks, identification of marketing & training requirements, contract acceptance, and agreement of performance management KPIs and report schedule.
Regular contract performance reports demonstrating performance against agreed KPIs and proactively highlighting opportunity potential to the commercial team to maximise revenue generation.
Maintain rich data for all relevant SKUs and ensure accuracy of product data on third party product catalogues.
Research industry trends and work with NHS to get an understanding of Sustainability in the NHS.

Other

To adhere to the company's Equal Opportunities policy and Dignity at work policy in all activities and to actively promote equality of opportunity wherever possible
To be responsible for your own health and safety and that of your colleagues, in accordance with the company's' Health and Safety policy
To adhere to the company's Quality policy and Environmental policy
To undertake other duties as may be reasonably required

KEY SKILLS

Essential

Proven work experience as an Account Manager, Junior Account Manager or Contracts relevant role.
Demonstrable ability to communicate, present and influence key stakeholders
Solid experience with CRM software and MS Office (particularly MS Excel).
Experience delivering clientfocused solutions to customer needs.
Proven ability to juggle multiple account management projects at a time, while maintaining sharp attention to detail.
Excellent listening, negotiation and presentation abilities.
Highly organised.
Ability to learn quickly and retain technical information.

Desirable

Previous experience within a medical device business
Understanding of NHS procurement

KEY WORKING RELATIONSHIPS

Internal

Commercial including Sales & Marketing
Warehouse/Operations
Finance

External

Hospital Trusts
Tendering bodies

COMPETENCIES

Creativity - Produces creative and original ideas and solutions. Likes to find and explore new ways of doing things. Comes up with alternative possibilities and options.

Problem solving - Generates and promotes solutions. Sees clearly which is the best way forward. Able to make decisions and commitments within appropriate time frame.

Commercial Orientation - Ensures appropriate data is used to evaluate risks. Looks at the wider implications and is likely to try to assess the long-term impact. Influences others and intervenes to get appropriate results.

Resilience - Can work u