Sales Specialist - Textiles - New York

Description

Join one of "100 Best Places to Work in Healthcare"!

Medline Industries, Inc. is the largest privately held manufacturer and distributor of health care supplies and services in the country and one of the fastest growing companies in the industry. We have also been honored as one of the "100 Best Places to Work in Healthcare" and is listed among Forbes Magazine's 100 Largest Private Companies with more than billion in sales in 2014. Medline is a stable, entrepreneurial organization that owes its success to its diverse, dedicated, extraordinary people.

Medline has an immediate opening for an energetic laundry sales specialist to facilitate the management of our textile business within a large independent healthcare laundry operation in the greater NY, NJ, CT, PA and DE areas. We are seeking a dynamic, hardworking, individual capable of working within a large healthcare laundry environment as well as medical networks. You must be people-oriented with strong inter-personal skills and the ability to work independently. If you possess an entrepreneurial spirit; have excellent organization and communication skills; and enjoy reaping the rewards of your efforts, we encourage you to apply.
In return, Medline offers a very attractive compensation package including base salary, comprehensive benefits package, and 401(k) with company match!

Responsibilities include:

• Facilitate and make joint sales calls on large hospital customers in conjunction with both other Medline and laundries’ sales representatives.
• Establish and maintain customer relationships with the laundry becoming their first point of contact at Medline.
• Create, run and present monthly/quarterly reports to help both the laundry and Medline better manage our collective inventory levels.
• Handle new item forecasting by setting stock levels, updating of price files, and releasing pricing blocks.
• Run and work weekly/daily reports to maintain price parity between the laundries price files and Medline’s price files.
• Communication and follow up of issues with resolution on a timely basis.

Qualification

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 2 years of outside sales experience preferably in healthcare environment.
• Proven ability to manage full life cycle projects and bring projects in on time
• Proven ability to be pro-active
• Experience successfully working with customers
• Ability to work with minimal supervision in a detail focused, results oriented environment.
• Skilled in problem solving techniques.
• Good Communication skills – written and verbal
• Outgoing and enjoys working with people
• Ability to build strong relationships over the phone and email, as well as face to face
• Looking to work as part of a team, and interested in advancement opportunities
• Strong customer service focus and experience required
• Ability to deal with difficult situations in a positive manner
• Minimum commitment of 2 years to the position.

Medline is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. We are committed to cultural diversity in the workforce.