Account Manager, Health Systems and Specialty Services

The Health Systems and Specialty Services Account Manager is responsible for developing, maintaining long lasting and profitable relationships with large strategic health system customers. This position will act as the primary point of contact for the assigned customers where they will be responsible with understanding the customers' needs, strategic initiatives, focus on issue resolution and delivering a positive experience for customers. This role will be responsible for partnering with the Health Systems and Specialty Services sales team and shared stakeholders within Cencora to ensure issue resolution and service is achieved at the customer level. With a focus on current customer value realization, retention, satisfaction, operational / solution adoption, and utilization to achieve operational excellence within the managed customer.

• Develop and sustain long-term customer relationships while engaging customers at all levels, include senior levels of the customers organization to drive optimal customer experience.
• Operationalizes customer servicing requirements including serving as a point of escalation.
• Understands customer-specific nuances and ensures internal teams have knowledge needed to drive alignment between the customer and internal AB stakeholders to effectively service the customer.
• Plans, executes, problem solve and monitors initiatives that have direct impact to internal Cencora functional teams and/or external customers (e.g., onboarding/offboarding, conversion activities, and process/policy/technology changes).
• Proactively identifies best practices/initiatives to scale or apply to other like Health System owned customers to drive growth / improve customer experience.
• Evaluates interaction trends and proactively develops and implements improvement programs.
• Develops & maintains customer-specific documentation to support account management (e.g., operations manuals, account profiles, customer contacts, ABForce, Altify etc.).
• Ensure customers are aware of any changes to offerings related to processes and procedures, including operation and business management changes.
• Develop, lead, and drive operational solutions to customers, solicit feedback and actionable inputs internally/externally based on the initiative. (e.g., ABCOrder, ISO, Cart Optimization, Tote Consolidation)
• Collaborates with other teams to develop Health System specific initiatives; proactively identifies potentials risk(s); develops and implements strategies to mitigate identified risks; manages issue resolution process.
• Prepares and participates in comprehensive customer quarterly business reviews in partnership with sales by providing financials, initiative milestones and service metrics.
• Communicate effectively with both internal and external senior-level management to understand customer needs, maximize retention and growth, and communicate initiatives/milestones.
• Provides back-up coverage to support team members while they are out of the office.
• Must be willing to travel (including overnight travel) as required to effectively manage geographic territory; also, must travel to events such as conferences, national and regional sales meetings as required.
• Performs related duties as assigned.

Requires broad training in fields such as business administration, project/program management, healthcare management, accounting, sales, marketing, computer sciences or similar vocations generally obtained through completion of a four-year bachelor's degree or requires three-five plus years of directly related and progressively responsible experience.

• Strong verbal and written communication, strategic planning, and project management skills
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing; able to present information professionally and effectively to customers, associates, and management
• Analytical and process-oriented mindset
• Comfortable working across multiple departments in a deadline-driven environment
• Active team player, self-starter, and multitasker who can quickly adjust priorities
• Strong customer service skills able to courteously interact with customer to ensure a positive customer experience
• Demonstrated consultative skills and ability to effectively facilitate groups to consensus; ability to create trust and confidence quickly
• Demonstrates a proactive "can do" attitude
• Excellent follow-through skills
• Demonstrated project management skills, including the ability to lead, manage, & support multiple projects with diverse scope in a cross-functional environment
• Experience in organizing, planning, and executing projects from vision through implementation
• Strong interpersonal skills: ability to develop and maintain collaborative working and business relationships

We provide compensation, benefits, and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support our team members' ability to live with purpose every day. In addition to traditional offerings like medical, dental, and vision care, we also provide a comprehensive suite of benefits that focus on the physical, emotional, financial, and social aspects of wellness. This encompasses support for working families, which may include backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave.

To encourage your personal growth, we also offer a variety of training programs, professional development resources, and opportunities to participate in mentorship programs, employee resource groups, volunteer activities, and much more.

For details, visit https://www.virtualfairhub.com/cencora

*This Salary Range reflects a National Average for this job. The actual range may vary based on your locale. Ranges in Colorado/California/Washington/New York State-specific locations may be up to 10% lower than the minimum salary range, and 12% higher than the maximum salary range.

Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law.

The company's continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.

Cencora is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the employment process which are consistent with legal requirements. If you wish to request an accommodation while seeking employment, please call 888.692.2272 or email hrsc@cencora.com. We will make accommodation determinations on a request-by-request basis. Messages and emails regarding anything other than accommodations requests will not be returned