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Associate Account Executive- Mako - North Carolina

Stryker

Chapel Hill, NCJob$85K/yrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago

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Compensation
$85K/yr
Location
Chapel Hill, NC
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Bachelor's degree, required

Job overview

The Associate Account Executive represents Stryker by promoting capital equipment to surgeons and healthcare professionals, increasing sales in an assigned territory, and developing customer relationships. The role supports existing accounts and identifies new customers while learning to assume Account Executive responsibilities. It participates in sales cycles and post-sale installation and training, and assists Account Executives in meeting business targets.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Capital Equipment Sales, nice to haveSurgeon Interaction, requiredHealthcare Professional Interaction, requiredVerbal Communication, requiredWritten Communication, requiredSelling, requiredHospital Financial Operations, requiredRelationship Building, required

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Related Field, required2 Years Relevant Work Experience, requiredSurgical or Medical Capital Equipment Experience, nice to haveHospital Setting Sales Experience, nice to haveSurgeon and Hospital Relationship Development, nice to have

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match

Full job description

Associate Account Executive

Job Summary:

The Associate Account Executive primarily will be responsible for representing Stryker as a leader in our industry and the marketplace by promoting our capital equipment to a sophisticated audience comprised of surgeons and healthcare professionals, while honing his/her skills to assume all aspects of the Account Executive accountabilities. The Associate Account Executive will increase sales in his or her assigned territory and develop Stryker’s customer relationships by supporting existing accounts and building new accounts through the identification of new customers in the territory.

  • Is part of the cross functional team that executes the sales cycle, as well as post sale installation and training activities at customer site

  • Helps to transition “ownership” of account to the MPS clinical organization and JR.

  • Ability to build, and manage, a “funnel” of capital sales opportunities sufficient to ensure that annual quotas are met or exceeded.

  • Ability to manage, and close capital sales cycles for products that sell for greater than $800,000

  • Ability to sell a breakthrough technology and establish a new marketplace.

  • Collaborates effectively with marketing and sales management to build the strategies and selling tools that will further support increased selling effectiveness.

  • Learn how to move sales through a budgeted and more importantly, an off-budget process.

  • Learn how to be comfortable and facile with the use of financing and leasing products to close business

  • Submits consistent and timely reporting of sales opportunities, lead follow up and forecasts and other reporting as required

  • Attends sales training meetings, as well as trade shows and other events that would tend to promote and give visibility to the companies’ products

  • Assist the Account Executives in meeting and exceeding business targets (quotas)

  • Serves as the primary backup contact for the Account Executives

Job Requirements:

  • Bachelor of Arts / Bachelor of Science in related field

  • 2 years relevant work experience; surgical or medical capital equipment preferred

  • Ability to interact with surgeons and allied healthcare professionals

  • Demonstrated verbal communication skills (both in groups and one-on-on interaction) and written communication skills

  • Selling experience, preferably in the hospital setting. An understanding of the financial operations of hospitals

  • Demonstrated ability in building and maintain relationships; prefer experience developing relationships with surgeons & hospitals in respective areas

$85,000.00

Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.

Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability.

How this job compares

Set against the 44,922 open Sales jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 15, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$85K/yr
  • North Carolina median$90–144K/yr597 salary ranges
  • US median$95–143K/yr23,517 salary ranges

This rate, $85K, is 29% below the North Carolina median midpoint ($120K) — in the middle half of Sales salary ranges in North Carolina.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 1,366 open Sales jobs in North Carolina and 44,922 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in North Carolina
Experience
This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience; Sales postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years at the median (26,043 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 8,883 of the 44,922 open Sales jobs (20%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Pay, requirements and demand for Sales jobs

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