# New Business Sales Manager

**Company**: Cigna Healthcare
**Location**: Plano, TX
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Sales
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The New Business Sales Manager will be responsible for executing a local market sales strategy for the Under 500 Buyer Group, achieving improved client and customer retention, competitive positioning, and increased membership and earnings growth while maintaining a strong brand reputation.

**Responsibilities:**

- Full accountability for sales organisational performance

- Coaches individuals in professional development

- Works with staff to build and execute individual development action plans

- Coaches team in their individual development needs

- Oversees and provides input to the development of market-specific sales plans

- Provides input to the development and execution of local marketing strategies

- Develops and maintains strong intelligence capability through customer/broker contact and formal competitive analysis

- Manages the development and execution of the market strategy to achieve sales plans

- Achieves sales/membership growth and persistency goals

- Achieves/exceeds earnings plans

- Ensures account-specific development plans promote profitable growth and a truly integrated Cigna product portfolio

- Works with Client Management and Client Strategy staff to ensure an integrated approach to account development strategies and proactive service strategy

- Works with Client Managers to manage the renewal and presentation process for assigned customers

- Develops and executes tactical plans to achieve organisational objectives

- Ensures completion of all strategic planning and holds systematic meeting schedules with staff, producers, and customers

- Completes all reporting requirements on time

- Monitors critical metrics/dashboards to identify operational strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement

**Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience

- 8+ years of industry-related experience; minimum of 5 years of sales experience required

- Sales management experience preferred, including recruitment, selection, and development of new sales representatives

- Excellent knowledge of sales management processes

- Excellent negotiation and influencing skills, including public speaking and presentation skills

- Proven ability to lead a sales team and develop staff

- Demonstrated leadership skills required to support a strong sales growth result

- Enjoys working hard and looks for challenges; able to act and react as necessary, even with limited information; not afraid to take charge of a situation; can overcome resistance to leadership and take unpopular stands when necessary

- Comfortable dealing with and managing an ever-changing, highly competitive industry/environment; communicates optimism and confidence in the future

- Proven experience building a competitive sales force and leading a multidisciplinary team of professionals

## Skills

### Required
- sales management
- leadership
- influencing
- negotiation
- public speaking
- presentation skills

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