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Senior Equipment Specialist

Role overview

Summary

The role focuses on driving sales and profits for ZEISS in a designated territory. You will develop business strategies and maintain high standards of professionalism while engaging with the surgical market.

Qualifications

  • Four-year college degree or equivalent.
  • Five plus (5+) years’ sales experience.
  • High level of technical/clinical product knowledge.
  • Strong organizational and communication skills.
  • Exceptional negotiating and diplomacy skills.

Responsibilities

  • Generate new business sales and profits in a specific territory.
  • Develop an annual business plan to achieve territory objectives.
  • Forecast monthly equipment pipeline.
  • Report weekly on activities and communicate market trends or competitive activities to management.

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Sales
  • Negotiation
  • Forecasting
  • Communication
  • Organizational Skills
  • Computer Literacy
  • Teamwork
  • Time Management
  • Diplomacy

About the company

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ZEISS Group

  • Electronic Components & Equipment
  • XLarge
  • 10,001+
ZEISS is an internationally leading technology enterprise operating in the fields of optics and optoelectronics. In the previous fiscal year, the ZEISS Group generated annual revenue totaling 10 billion euros in its four segments Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology, Industrial Quality & Research, Medical Technology and Consumer Markets (status: 30 September 2023). With around 43,000 employees, ZEISS is active globally in almost 50 countries with around 30 production sites, 60 sales and service companies and 27 research and development facilities (status: 30 September 2023). Founded in 1846 in Jena, the company is headquartered in Oberkochen, Germany. The Carl Zeiss Foundation, one of the largest foundations in Germany committed to the promotion of science, is the sole owner of the holding company, Carl Zeiss AG. Data privacy: www.zeiss.com/data-protection Imprint: http://zeiss.com/publisher This is ZEISS's official LinkedIn account. It follows the ZEISS Netiquette: www.zeiss.com/netiquette

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Job description

The Senior Equipment Specialist is a motivated individual with an entrepreneurial spirit, hunter mentality, skilled negotiator and has proven capital equipment sales experience.  The Senior Equipment Specialist is responsible for the generation of new business sales and profits (P&L) in a specific territory. They commit to an annual sales budget, develops an annual business plan to achieve territory objectives, and forecasts monthly equipment pipeline. The Senior Equipment Specialist must be a team player, develop excellent clinical and technical knowledge, and demonstrate a high business acumen for the surgical market. Must report on their activities weekly and must represent the company in keeping with the highest standards of business ethics and professionalism. Responsible for communicating with management any ideas, market trends or competitive activities.

(Bona Fide Occupational Requirements, such as education, certification, and/ or skills that are necessary to do the job.)

·        Four-year college degree or equivalent. Five plus (5+) years’ sales experience.

·        High level of technical/ clinical product knowledge.

·        Ability to manage multiple tasks.

·        Strong organizational and communication skills.

·        Computer literacy in word processing, spreadsheet and database management.

·        Exceptional negotiating and diplomacy skills.

·        Develop expertise in product application and practice management implications.

·        Safely operate a motor vehicle and maintain a valid motor vehicle license.


The annual starting base salary for this position is $100,000 plus sales commission.

ZEISS also offers robust benefits, including medical plans, retirement savings plan and paid time off.

Your ZEISS Recruiting Team:

Joseph Taroni-Luxton

Zeiss provides Equal Employment Opportunity without unlawful regard to an Applicants race, color, religion, creed, sex, gender, marital status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, military or veteran status, citizen status, sexual orientation, pregnancy (includes childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical condition), genetic predisposition, carrier status, gender expression or identity, including transgender identity, or any other class or characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law of the employee (or the people with whom the employee associates, including relatives and friends). 

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