Application Specialist General Imaging/Radiology North East En

Job description

Ultrasound Clinical Applications Specialist 
General Imaging/Radiology – North East England

Your challenge

As an Ultrasound Clinical Applications Specialist you significantly contribute to growing our Ultrasound business, customer satisfaction 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.

This position will cover the North East (Newcastle down to m62/Leeds Sheffield area)

Your responsibilities

Role and responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Demonstration of Philips Ultrasound products at customer sites/hospitals and at conferences/exhibits. Assisting Sales Specialists by providing specialist sales support to ensure that all equipment is demonstrated to best advantage.
• Post sales customer product training both at customer sites/hospitals and at Philips customer optimization days.
• Following training schedules for the complete range of equipment and train customers in the use of Philips Ultrasound products, and to provide a formal applications report on completion of all applications visits.
• Maintaining contact with existing users ensuring ongoing customer satisfaction and confidence in using Philips Ultrasound equipment.
• Ensuring that all clinical applications training, with both new and existing US customers, complies with the Company's Quality Policy.
• Providing feedback to business/marketing management with information on reference sites system performance, competitors’ products, customer reactions and sales arguments.
• Liaising with the Product Management Group's applications team to ensure that the latest US information is available for Users, including attending international meetings where appropriate.
• Providing support at courses delivered by our key accounts/customers.
• Assisting the Business Line Manager in all aspects of marketing, sales and promotion of Philips Ultrasound (US) equipment and provide specialist sales support to the account managers when required.
• 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.

Your team

Working at Philips means driving your career in an organisation with an incredible diversity of nationalities, skills, backgrounds, functions and challenges. We have opportunities for graduates as well as experienced professionals in everything from applied research to marketing and sales in over 100 countries. We’re a fascinating company to be part of with a strong emphasis on cultural awareness, mutual understanding and out-of-the-box thinking.

The Ultrasound Applications team is a group of dedicated professionals who are all passionate about ultrasound and delivering quality training to our customers. We come from a variety of backgrounds (Cardiovascular, General Imaging, Radiology, Women’s health) but all have a clinical background. Several of the team also worked for other healthcare companies before joining Philips. Although we all have defined territories we all support each other as required across the UK.

This position will cover the North East (Newcastle down to m62/Leeds Sheffield area)

We are looking for a candidate with:

Essential:

• Excellent communication skills
• Full UK driving license
• Flexibility to travel within UK, with occasional travel to Europe
Desirable:
• HPC registration or other relevant professional registration.
• Experience as a Sonographer and working in a clinical Ultrasound environment.
• Qualification in Diagnostic Ultrasound.
• Experience of training/teaching, teaching qualification (PGE for example)

Our Offer

We welcome you to a challenging, innovative environment with great opportunities for you to explore. Our benefits are very competitive and designed around your preferences:

• A competitive base salary plus a performance related bonus.
• Company car or PACS allowance
• Access to private healthcare insurance
• Holiday allowance of 25 days a year from the start (plus bank holidays)
• Learning and Development opportunities through our Philips University
• Family friendly policies which offer enhanced maternity and paternity schemes
• The Philips Employee Shop allows employees to buy Philips products at discounted prices
• Subsidised Café promoting healthy eating and wellbeing at the Guildford and Avent sites
• Holistic therapies  - subsidised Clinical and Sports trained massage therapist on site in Guildford