Regional Laboratory Equipment Business Development Specialist (Astana)

Location: Kazakhstan - Remote

Category: Sales

Employment Type: Full time

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision-making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.

Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments and informatics systems are often the first step in patient care decision-making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You will have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Competitive salaries, bonus potential and an excellent package of benefits (sports card, life insurance, private medical care, stock purchase plan and many others).
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune. 
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Astana, Kazakhstan location in the Abbott Diagnostics Division.
As the Regional Laboratory Equipment Business Development and Support Specialist you’ll be representing Abbott to targeted customers in order to increase awareness of Abbott and its brand, generate sales opportunities and build customer preference.

What You’ll Do

• Development of existing clients within the assigned territory
• Forecasting and achieving planned indicators for sales volumes of equipment and services
• Building long-term relationships with clients, including after-sales service and client development planning
• Market development, search for new clients.

Required Qualifications

• Higher education: medicine / biomedicine / medical technology / engineering / electromechanics
• Knowledge of diagnostics equipment and the local diagnostics market
• Excellent sales skills, successful experience in developing the clients business
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills with key decision-makers
• Technical literacy preferred, engineering experience preferred
• English - spoken Intermediate level
• Ability to travel up to 50% of assigned territory