Account Executive

What if you could grow your career while making the world a cleaner, safer and healthier place? Help prevent the spread of infection? And touch what is fundamental to saving lives? As a respected leader in healthcare, we foster collaboration to create innovative solutions that improve health outcomes and keep patients safe. We are a global leader making an impact and delighting our customers in more than 170 countries, in a workplace where our voices matter, our contributions are rewarded and our employees are inspired. Make an impact. Build the healthcare career you’ve always wanted. Join our team and experience more.

Join Ecolab’s industry-leading Healthcare team as an **Account Executive** in the Upper Austria/Salzburg Region. Our goal is to provide healthcare professionals with innovative infection prevention solutions that help increase efficiency, improve outcomes, and help reduce the risk of Hospital Acquired Infections. You will interact with a variety of clinical settings including operating rooms, interventional radiology, ultrasound, cardiac catheterization labs, and ambulatory surgical centers.

**What’s in it For You**:

- Enjoy a paid training program allowing you to learn from successful professionals
- Carve out a short-term, advanced career path in sales and service
- A flexible, independent work environment where you will plan your own schedule
- Access to best-in-class resources, tools, and technology
- Gather experience in the Healthcare Business

**What You Will Do**:

- Introduce new product offerings to existing customers and prospect / cold call/network to obtain new business
- Manage customer base and build relationships through a professional demeanor and strong interpersonal skills
- Partner with customers to implement best practices to fight hospital-acquired infections
- Provide outstanding customer service, educate customers on ways to improve their patient outcomes, and be relied upon as an Infection Prevention Specialist
- Be the resource to help Environmental Services departments with their day-to-day challenges

**Minimum** Qualifications**:

- Bachelor's degree
- Previous Business to Business (B2B) sales experience
- Fluency in German and English
- A valid driver's license with an acceptable motor vehicle record
- Flexibility for overnight travel as needed
- Located in the travel area (Upper Austria/Salzburg)

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- Proven previous experience as a high performing sales person (healthcare or medical sales preferred)
- Demonstrated relationship management & consultative selling aptitude
- Customer service skills with the ability to problem solve and devise customer solutions
- Self-motivated with effective organizational/time management skills
- Ability to target accounts and achieve results through an action plan
- Proficiency in MS Office Suite and Outlook

**About Ecolab Healthcare**:
Discover the combined impact of cutting-edge technology, real-time information, personally delivered service, and best-practice training. Ecolab Healthcare delivers infection prevention solutions to ensure healthy environments for patients and healthcare providers. We provide solutions from hand and skin hygiene to patient and operating room environmental hygiene, leading to improved outcomes, operating efficiencies, and increased patient satisfaction.

**Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion**

Ecolab is committed to fair and equal treatment of associates and applicants and furthering the principles of Equal Opportunity to Employment. Our goal is to fully utilize minority, female, and disabled individuals at all levels of the workforce. We will recruit, hire, promote, transfer and provide opportunities for advancement based on individual qualifications and job performance. In all matters affecting employment, compensation, benefits, working conditions, and opportunities for advancement, Ecolab will not discriminate against any associate or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expressions, genetic information, marital status, age, or disability.