Physician Lab Sales Specialist - Houston, Texas
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Responsibilities
- Sales Growth & Revenue Generation: Drive sales growth by promoting Henry Schein's exclusive laboratory solutions, including instrumentation, reagents, consumables, and point-of-care testing.
- Conduct diagnostic workflow analyses to uncover opportunities for upgrading instrumentation, consolidating vendors, and improving reimbursement potential. Target new accounts through data-driven prospecting.
- Market & Competitive Insight: Maintain deep knowledge of the CLIA regulatory landscape (waived, moderate, and high complexity testing environments).
- Monitor competitive activity and market shifts to inform strategy and capitalize on white-space opportunities.
- Serve as a laboratory diagnostics subject matter expert to internal teams, offering product expertise.
- SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS:
- Strategic, solution-oriented sales approach. Demonstrated ability to meet or exceed revenue and unit targets.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
- Experience selling into physician office labs, urgent care centers, Large Group Practices and IDNs preferred.
- Prior experience collaborating within cross functional teams to achieve multi-channel growth preferred.
- Demonstrated success exceeding quotas and driving territory growth in competitive markets.
- Proven ability to close both transactional consumables sales and longer-cycle moderate complexity placements.
- Familiarity with reagent rental models, CLIA compliance, and reimbursement frameworks.
- Strong prospecting and territory management skills.
- GENERAL SKILLS & COMPETENCIES:
- Excellent understanding of industry practices
- Strong proficiency with tools, systems, and procedures
- Excellent planning/organizational skills and techniques
- Excellent independent decision making, analysis and problem solving skills
- Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent presentation and public speaking skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Excellent conflict resolution skills and ability to deliver difficult messages
- Ability to build partnerships at all levels within the company
- Good negotiating skills
- Resolve complex issues in effective ways
- Project management, consultative skills and ability to manage a budget
- Specialist in multiple technical and/or business skills
- Ability to cultivate and develop lasting internal and external customer relations
- WORK EXPERIENCE:
- Typically 7 or more years of increasing responsibility and complexity in terms of any applicable professional experience.
- Experience in MedTech and/or laboratory operations environments is welcomed.
- PREFERRED EDUCATION:
- Typically a Bachelor's Degree or global equivalent in related discipline. Master's degree or global equivalent preferred. May hold two or more industry certifications.
- TRAVEL / PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
- This position requires extensive travel within the designated territory. (Minimum 50% travel is not unusual) This position will be working in a home office environment, utilizing typical office equipment.
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JOB OVERVIEW: The Physician Lab Sales Specialist (PLSS) is responsible for driving sales of CLIA-waived and moderately complex diagnostic solutions into physician-owned laboratories, urgent care centers, community health clinics, and specialty practices. In addition to Point of Care (POC) and waived testing, the role includes responsibility for positioning non-waived instrumentation (CBC, chemistry/IA, molecular platforms) and associated multi-year reagent rental agreements for practices with the patient base to support expanded in-office testing. The PLSS balances transactional sales (consumables, POC testing) with strategic capital placements and provides consultative support around compliance, reimbursement, and lab workflow optimization.
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