JOB DESCRIPTION
Job Title
Applications Specialist Ultrasound (General Imaging)
Job Description
In this role based throughout the North East of England, you have the opportunity to significantly contribute to growing our Ultrasound business, customer happiness, and after-sales support by demonstrating the Philips Ultrasound family of products and training new and existing users on our Ultrasound equipment to ensure full appreciation of its use.
You are responsible for:
1. Demonstration of Philips Ultrasound products at customer sites/hospitals and at conferences/exhibits. Assisting Sales Specialists by providing specialist sales support, making sure that all equipment is demonstrated to the best advantage
2. Post-sales customer product training
3. Maintaining contact with existing users ensuring ongoing customer happiness and confidence in using Philips Ultrasound equipment
4. Providing feedback to business/marketing management with information on reference sites system performance, competitors’ products, customer reactions, and sales arguments
5. Liaising with the Product Management Group's applications team to ensure that the latest information is available for users, including attending international meetings where appropriate
6. Providing support at courses delivered by our key accounts/customers
7. Assisting the Business Line Manager in the maintenance of tender responses, competitive pricing information and installed base data as well as assisting the Account Managers in the answering of Tender questionnaires
To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience:
8. Excellent communication skills
9. Be clinically astute
10. Full UK driving license
11. Flexibility to travel within the UK, with occasional travel to Europe
12. Experience working in a clinical Ultrasound environment
13. Experience of training/teaching
In return, we offer you
14. A competitive salary plus a performance related bonus
15. Company car allowance
16. Access to private healthcare insurance
17. Learning and Development opportunities through our Philips University
18. Family friendly policies which offer enhanced maternity and paternity schemes
19. The Philips Employee Shop allows employees to buy Philips products at discounted prices
20. ‘Live Well’ Program of Events – monthly activities that promote health and wellbeing, look out for on-site communications.
21. Employee Assistance Program – ‘Be Supported’ our EAP is accessible for all Philips employees and their families. As well as being a confidential support line, it also offers practical financial and life management advice 24 /7 and is completely confidential.
We also believe that we are at our best as a company when you are at yours as a person. Thus, we offer extensive health benefits, a flexible work schedule and access to local well-being focused activities. Furthermore, Philips University is available to all employees.
Why should you join Philips?
Being at Philips is more than a job. It’s a calling to craft a healthier society through meaningful work, focused on improving 3 billion lives a year by delivering creative solutions across the health continuum. Our people experience a variety of unexpected moments when their lives and careers come together in meaningful ways.
To find out more about what it’s like working for Philips at a personal level, visit the Working at Philips page on our career website. Once there, you can also learn about our recruitment process, or find answers to some of the frequently asked questions.
Equal opportunities
Philips are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.
We guarantee to interview anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post. By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean that you will provide us with evidence in your application which demonstrates that you meet the level of competence required for each competence, as well as meeting the qualifications, skills or experience defined as required. Philips is committed to the employment and career development of disabled people.
Should you require any reasonable adjustments to enable your participation in the interview process, please advise us of this upon application.
Recruitment agencies : we are fortunate enough to receive lots of fantastic applications for our brand, however when we use agencies we have a PSL in place so please do not contact hiring managers or the recruitment team directly. Unfortunately we are not able to respond to you and cannot accept speculative CV’s as way of introduction.
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