Position : Business Development
Location : Covington, GA
Duration : 3 Months Contract
Total Hours/week : 40.00
1st shift
Description:
- Developmental position for growth into strategic marketing. Generates and executes plans and programs under the supervision of the Business Development Manager.
- Contributes to opportunity assessments in conjunction with Marketing and R&D teams to gain expertise in strategic planning and new product development.
- Assists with necessary target screening and due diligence work, potentially leading to full business cases on growth opportunities identified.
- Helps complete approved assessments and full business case presentations for review by senior management.
- The Intern may be assigned additional projects involving new market assessment and business plan development upon demonstrated success with the existing duties.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Analyzes business and clinical information in order to assess the attractiveness of new markets
- Research and analyze sales trends and forecast potential sales volume
- Construct market models and forecasts for New Product Development (NPD) and New Business Development efforts
- Collaborate with NPD and assess technology solutions to market needs
- Contribute to the NPD process by providing appropriate input on value proposition, product design, claim strategy, customer needs
Qualifications:
- To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
- The requirements included in this job description are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
- Proficient in the use of a personal computer with intermediate level of keyboarding skills and proficiency in the use of Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access
- Proficiency in financial modeling and forecasting using Excel
- Good technical knowledge of medical device marketplace composition, drivers, and trends
- Innovative thinking and technology aptitude
- Strong interpersonal skills required in the areas of verbal and written communications, customer focus, professionalism, coaching and team building
- Strong listening and assessment skills
- Strong questioning and problem-solving skills
- Demonstrated leadership potential
- Decisive, flexible, quick-thinking
- High level of curiosity and desire for new learning
- Unquestionable integrity and honesty
- Organized and thorough
- Creative
Education / Experience:
- Pursuing Bachelor's or Master's degree in engineering, marketing or finance
- Some healthcare experience/exposure preferred
- Experience analyzing business opportunities
Language Skills:
- Full written and verbal command of the English language
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, governmental regulations
- Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers
Mathematical Skills:
- College-level math skills required
- Working knowledge of statistics necessary and some understanding of regression analysis preferred
Reasoning Ability:
- Strong problem-solving skills required
- Conceptual thinker preferred
- Demonstrated analytical skills necessary
Physical Demands:
- Employee may be required to sit, bend, stoop, use keyboard, see, talk and hear. May occasionally lift objects of 10 to 25 lbs
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions
Work Environment:
- This position works in a normal office environment. The noise level in the work environment is quiet to moderate
- Must be able to provide own transportation