Carelon Sales Executive (Behavioral Health)

Carelon Sales Executive (Behavioral Health)

Field: This field-based role enables associates to primarily operate in the field, traveling to client sites or designated locations as their role requires, with occasional office attendance for meetings or training. This approach ensures flexibility, responsiveness to client needs, and direct, hands-on engagement.

Carelon, a proud member of the Elevance Health family of companies, is a healthcare services organization that takes a whole-health approach to making care more integrated, personalized, and affordable. We put people at the center—connecting physical, behavioral, social, and pharmacy services, along with clinical expertise, research, operations, and advanced technology to help care work better, together.

Among us are specialty-care physicians, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, engineers, data scientists, and other dedicated and caring health professionals. While our roles may differ, our purpose is shared: to make a positive impact on whole health.

The Carelon Sales Executive (Behavioral Health) is responsible for driving growth by directing sales and retention strategy for the health services which Carelon offers as a high value proposition for its customers.

How you will make an impact:

• Partners with leadership to identify sales opportunities and meet growth objectives for the business.
• Understands all aspects of the business and partners with executive leadership to define strategy and successful criteria for the future.
• Establishes, builds, and nurtures executive level relationships at targeted accounts that ultimately yield additional opportunities to introduce Carelon solutions.
• Articulates and introduces specific solutions to new customers that leverage multiple assets across Carelon business units.
• Establishes and maintains a high level of visibility within industry groups and ecosystem and establish a high level of fluency in emerging and impactful industry developments.
• Translates strategy into defined tactics, programs/projects priorities, and timelines and ensures alignment and attainment of enterprises strategic plans to turn strategy into reality.
• Collaborates with and influences product development strategies by representing the voice of the customer for assigned segment.
• Identifies, pursues, and closes net new opportunities and accounts that contribute to the annual net new external sales target.
• Directs and coordinates account sales activities related to varied health services products of the business units within Carelon to include behavioral health, data analytics, care delivery, wound care, etc.
• Develops strategies and executes sales plans to achieve membership growth and financial goals.
• Supports account finalist opportunities for new sales and account management.
• Documents strategic priorities such as external environment and reports on customer insight research initiatives as they are discovered in the selling cycle.
• Builds and leverages C-suite level relationships to provide innovative solutions to complex business problems in the home health/post acute care market.
• Proposes opportunities to improve results based on continuous needs assessment.
• Collaborates with Product /Solution teams to inform the development of offerings to meet customer/segment needs and communicate these effectively.
• Consistently build and manage a sales pipeline.
• Ability to build aggressive strategic communication plans as part of sales activities.

Minimum Requirements:

• Requires a BS/BA degree in related field with a minimum of 10 years related experience to include senior sales experience and a minimum of 3 years experience in strategic planning; or any combination of education and experience which would provide an equivalent background.

Preferred Skills, Capabilities and Experiences:

• Behavioral Health experience strongly preferred.
• Extensive knowledge of health plan and/or public sector direct-to-state or county markets strongly preferred.
• Travels up to 50% to other locations as necessary.

In addition to your salary, Elevance Health offers benefits such as a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). The salary offered for this specific position is based on a number of legitimate, non-discriminatory factors set by the Company. The Company is fully committed to ensuring equal pay opportunities for equal work regardless of gender, race, or any other category protected by federal, state, and local pay equity laws.

Job Level: Non-Management Exempt

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