Vice President of Acquisition Sales, Healthcare Division
United States - Remote
Private Cloud - Americas Healthcare and Tech – Americas Healthcare and Tech /
Full - Time /
Remote
Vice President Healthcare Sales
The High-Performing Healthcare Sales Leader is responsible for driving revenue growth and market share in the healthcare sector by leading a team of sales professionals. This individual will be tasked with developing and executing strategic sales initiatives, ensuring the team meets or exceeds sales targets, and fostering long-term client relationships. A successful candidate will possess a deep understanding of the healthcare industry, demonstrate exceptional leadership skills, and drive results in a competitive market. This High-Performing Healthcare Sales Leader - with strong experience in provider segment - is key for driving consistent performance in FY25 and beyond.
The Healthcare Sales Leader provides strategic and operational direction to the organization's sales operations, sales support and/or professional services functions to maximize sales revenues and meet corporate objectives. Develops sales goals including sales volume, cost of sales, and product profitability. Ensures that sales goals and forecasts are consistent with the organization’s long-range strategic objectives.
Career Level Summary
Accountable to the Senior Leadership Team for organizational results. Provides direction to leaders. Mentors and develops high-potential Rackers.
Responsibilities
- Sales Strategy Development:
- Develop and implement a comprehensive sales strategy for expanding market share, targeting new business, and retaining key customers.
- Align sales strategies with company goals, including revenue growth, profitability, and market expansion.
- Analyze market trends, competitor activity, and customer needs to identify opportunities for growth.
- Team Leadership and Development:
- Lead, mentor, and motivate a high-performing sales team to achieve individual and collective sales targets.
- Provide ongoing coaching, training, and performance feedback to develop the skills and capabilities of the sales team.
- Create a positive and inclusive team culture focused on collaboration, accountability, and high performance.
- Customer Relationship Management:
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key healthcare stakeholders, including healthcare providers, technologist and executives.
- Identify customer needs and work with internal teams to deliver customized hybrid, multi-cloud cloud solutions.
- Drive customer satisfaction and retention through excellent service, problem-solving, and value-added support.
- Sales Execution and Results:
- Oversee the sales process, ensuring high conversion rates and optimized sales cycles.
- Monitor sales KPIs, analyze performance data, and take corrective action as needed to ensure targets are met.
- Develop and deliver sales presentations and proposals to prospective clients.
- Collaboration with Cross-Functional Teams:
- Work closely with marketing, product development, and customer support teams to align sales efforts with overall company objectives.
- Ensure timely and accurate communication between sales and other departments to facilitate smooth execution of customer orders and service needs.
- Market and Competitive Intelligence:
- Stay current with industry trends, regulations, and emerging technologies that could impact healthcare sales, primarily healthcare provider segment.
- Conduct regular competitive analysis and develop strategies to differentiate products/services in the marketplace and provide feedback to private cloud product teams
- Reporting and Forecasting:
- Provide regular sales reports and forecasts to senior management, ensuring visibility into performance and business growth.
- Manage and track sales pipelines, leads, and opportunities, ensuring that all data is accurate and up-to-date
- Player and Coach Mindset:
- Ability to own and execute the entire pursuit process for large and critical deals
- Provide mentoring and coaching on a continuous basis with a focus on building high performing sales organization.
- Key Responsibilities:
- Utilizes extensive knowledge of customer base, business climate, and Rackspace resources to develop and drive sales performance for the organization. Works with leaders to establish organizational goals and objectives and cascades goals through top level management down to front-line Rackers. Fosters an atmosphere of innovation and commitment. Reviews regular results assessments of sales staff productivity and reports to top executives. Oversees all relevant sales support and/or professional services activities to maximize sales revenues and meet corporate objectives. Coordinates company resources to ensure the efficient and effective use to drive maximum results. Provides leadership, direction and motivation to sales directors and managers.
- Influences customers, sales unit, customer support, and customer education to establish effective programs. Ensures sales support staff receives training needed to be technically knowledgeable of company's products. Develops pricing strategies and sales campaigns with marketing executives. Collaborates with Marketing Executives to ensure alignment of organizations with strategic goals and objectives.
Knowledge
- Excellent management skills with the ability to effectively direct the organization’s global sales and field operations in order to maximize revenues and profits. In-depth knowledge of sales principles and practices. Excellent time management, communication, decision- making, human relations, presentation and organizational skills. Ability to identify elements of early success and duplicate on a massive scale. Commitment to the servant leadership culture and the ability to drive positive performance in the environment. Ability to drive change at all levels of the business.
Education
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution.
- Prefer MBA or graduate degree
Experience
- A minimum of 10 years of demonstrated successful Sales Leadership experience required.
- Extensive experience in IT/Technology sales in high-growth environments.
- Previous sales experience selling IT solutions and services in a healthcare provider segment in addition to familiarity of payer and life sciences segment is highly desired.
About Rackspace Technology We are the multicloud solutions experts. We combine our expertise with the world’s leading technologies — across applications, data and security — to deliver end-to-end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future. Named a best place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent. Join us on our mission to embrace technology, empower customers and deliver the future. More on Rackspace Technology Though we’re all different, Rackers thrive through our connection to a central goal: to be a valued member of a winning team on an inspiring mission. We bring our whole selves to work every day. And we embrace the notion that unique perspectives fuel innovation and enable us to best serve our customers and communities around the globe. We welcome you to apply today and want you to know that we are committed to offering equal employment opportunity without regard to age, color, disability, gender reassignment or identity or expression, genetic information, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, military or veteran status, nationality, ethnic or national origin, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any legally protected characteristic. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
About Rackspace Technology
We are the multicloud solutions experts. We combine our expertise with the world’s leading technologies — across applications, data and security — to deliver end-to-end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future. Named a best place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent. Join us on our mission to embrace technology, empower customers and deliver the future.
More on Rackspace Technology
Though we’re all different, Rackers thrive through our connection to a central goal: to be a valued member of a winning team on an inspiring mission. We bring our whole selves to work every day. And we embrace the notion that unique perspectives fuel innovation and enable us to best serve our customers and communities around the globe. We welcome you to apply today and want you to know that we are committed to offering equal employment opportunity without regard to age, color, disability, gender reassignment or identity or expression, genetic information, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, military or veteran status, nationality, ethnic or national origin, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any legally protected characteristic. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from 296,800 Min/year in our lowest geographic market up to 522,170 Max/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Learn more about benefits at Rackspace.
