Job Abstract

The District Manager (DM) is responsible for managing an area of 8 to 10 Business Development Managers (BDM). The DM will also oversee all aspects of managing an area including sales accountability, ensuring all BDM’s are addressed regarding training, development, disciplinary issues interviewing and hiring prospective BDM’s, managing region budgets, and developing and maintaining key customer relationships to ensure the overall success of the Aesthetic products.

Main Areas of Responsibilities:

Consistently achieves Regional sales and expense goals across the Facial Aesthetics product portfolio. Directly leads and manages Facial Aesthetics Business Development Managers in the sales execution component of U.S. marketing plans. Creates Regional execution plans across the Facial Aesthetics product portfolio. Actively participates in the selling process at the field level. Demonstrates adaptability with multiple initiatives.

Provides leadership and direction for all team members within an assigned region. Responsible for recruiting, hiring, training, developing and performance management for the assigned region. Engages in coaching and counseling to develop Business Development Skills along a continuum from new hires to advanced senior BDMs. Oversees development and succession planning to maximize results and ensure team development continuity. Directs BDMs toward innovative selling strategies and approaches such as consultative selling, competitive product differentiation selling and value add selling.

Proactively develops and manages the Allergan Medical relationships with established and emerging injectors and practices within an assigned region. Builds managerial partnerships with targeted accounts, facilitates resource allocation such as Allergan VIP interaction, APC resources, PR initiatives, etc. Develops a progressive development plan promoting growing practices from local to national exposure. Established as the key point of contact to manage customer relationship issues and/or opportunities

Demonstrates the ability to execute marketing plans across product portfolio. Understands and communicates the sales execution role within the marketing plan. Ability to understand the marketing team's role and provide appropriate feedback to plan implementation. Ability to articulate strategy among the management team and direct reports. Ability to understand how individual tactics support the overall strategic direction. Ability to understand multiple perspectives associated with key decisions. Understands and adheres to compliance and travel/expense policies.

Efficiently manages region resources including travel, expense and promotion budgets. Uses region metric planning and assessment tools (SAP, BURT, Quota management tools, etc.) to quantitatively manage the region. Ensures maximum ROI for use of corporate resources, injector training, APC's, consumer education, etc.