Req ID: 120603

Remote Position: Yes

Region: Americas

Country: USA

**General Overview**

**Functional Area:** MBD - Marketing & Business Development

**Career Stream:** SAL - Sales

**Role:** Director 1

**Job Title:** Sales Director 1

**Job Code:** DR1-MBD-SALE

**Band:** Level 12

**Direct/Indirect Indicator:** Indirect

**Summary**

Celestica is dedicated to delivering end-to-end product lifecycle solutions to drive our customers success. Our growing Advanced Technology Solutions (ATS), HealthTech organization focuses on applying Celestica's advanced capabilities, knowledgeable people and innovative tools to enable companies in the medical industry with highly complex, mission critical applications to improve their competitive advantage.

We are seeking a senior sales leader to help drive the growth and shape the future of a collaborative, high performance, growth-oriented business unit. If you are a highly motivated individual who can align unique insights to key customer priorities and can engage customers by deliberately linking their business priorities to our value propositions, then we want you on our team.

This is a remote position with the preference to have this person located on the West Coast or Midwest with reasonable access to an airport.

**Detailed Description**

As the Sales Director, you will be responsible for targeting new customer engagements across various submarkets in the HealthTech space with focus on surgical instruments, patient monitoring devices, diagnostic imaging, in-vitro diagnostics, and other medical related devices.

**This position is accountable to:**

Develop strong and long-lasting insight-based relationships with our customers and identify mobilizers. The incumbent will act as the primary sales interface for several accounts on a regional basis. More specifically:

Investigates potential new opportunities within the account

Identify, develop new accounts in North American region

Gains competitive intelligence and always ties insights back to our unique strengths in the market

Creates opportunities to provide a unique and contrarian perspective during commercial conversations and is able to reframe the way customers view their business

Have deep knowledge of customers business current macro and microeconomic trends, industry trends and potential new business opportunities

Engages the customer by deliberately tying their business priorities to our value proposition

Manages the overall customer relationship process while supporting business development in the planning and execution of the account strategies, tactics and selling propositions.

Acts as the Customer advocate to ensure that the organization remains customer-focused.

Acts as the main focal point to understand customers needs and requests, manages them and delivers business proposals and RFQ responses to customers.

Maintains a minimum revenue accountability (personal sales quota)

Establishes value before ROI/financial terms. Is able to qualify and quantify the impact of maintaining the status quo or pursuing competitors solutions.

**Knowledge/Skills/Competencies**

Strong communication, interpersonal, relationship management and professional sales skills

Understanding of technical and process fundamentals related to electronics and electromechanical products used in the medical device industry (FDA regulation, ISO13485, MDD, risk management, development process for new products)

Proven track record of developing business with new clients / developing new markets led by a technical background (either in manufacturing or engineering)

Have the ability to work on, and close, multiple prospects simultaneously

Experience in high complex service selling within a global network

Fostering and building relationships with existing clients as required

Strong strategic planning and execution skills

Ability to understand Profit and Loss modeling and sales impacts to improving customer financials

Value based consultative solution selling, business judgment, negotiation and decision-making skills.

Experience working and selling with senior level executives.

Experience working directly with customer Engineering, SCM and Manufacturing Teams in the co development of products, supply chain architecture and manufacturing process development.

Exceptional ability to work with others as part of a cross-functional team

Experience working with vast remote cross-functional teams in large matrix organizations

Demonstrated ability to have successfully carried a sales, revenue or operational quota gains

Business Travel is required 40-50%

**Physical Demands**

Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment.

Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data.

Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc.) are frequently required.

Overnight travel may be required.

**Typical Experience**

Minimum of 5 years of experience in business development and client relations specifically related to medical products (strong network into the medical industry is required)

**Typical Education**

Bachelor's degree in related field, or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Educational requirements may vary by geography.

**Notes**

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.

$147-175K Annuallly

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Celesticas policy on equal employment opportunity prohibits discrimination based on race, color, creed, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran or disability status, or other characteristics protected by law.

This policy applies to hiring, promotion, discharge, pay, fringe benefits, job training, classification, referral and other aspects of employment and also states that retaliation against a person who files a charge of discrimination, participates in a discrimination proceeding, or otherwise opposes an unlawful employment practice will not be tolerated. All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Location: This is a remote position, with travel as necessary. We are open to considering candidates close to any of our US locations in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Texas, Arizona, Oregon or California as well as locations near major airports such as the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest and Pacific Coast.

**COMPANY OVERVIEW:**

Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the worlds best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud. Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40 locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.

Celestica would like to thank all applicants, however, only qualified applicants will be contacted.

Celestica does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services.