Business Development Representative - Illinois

Opportunities with Genoa Healthcare. A career with Genoa Healthcare means you're part of a collaborative effort to serve behavioral health and addiction treatment communities. We do more than just provide medicine: we change lives for the better. People with serious mental or chronic illness - and those who care for them - have moving stories, and at Genoa we become their voice, their partner. Working as part of a coordinated care team, we partner with community-based providers and others to ensure that people with complex health conditions get the right medications and are able to follow their treatment plans. Our personalized services - in-clinic pharmacies, medication management and more - are leading the way to a new level of care.

Genoa is a pharmacy care services company that is part of Optum and UnitedHealth Group's family of businesses. We are part of a leading information and technology-enabled health services business dedicated to making the health system work better for everyone. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

We seek a Business Representative in Illinois who, under the supervision from the Director, Business Development, will promote strategic growth for Genoa by identifying leads and closing sales transactions.

Territory will all of Illinois. Candidate is preferred to live in the Chicago or surrounding area. Must be willing to travel 75% of the time, including some overnights when needed.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Maintain successful relations with customers and potential customers by interacting professionally and pro-actively
• Promote strategic growth for the company by identifying leads and closing transactions; may include concentration on growing mental health and substance use treatment facility footprint, residential/group home consumer base, ACT/FACT teams, and other opportunities including hospital discharge planning and CMC sites
• Attend conferences in an effort to maintain relationships with current customers, identify leads, and interact with potential customers
• Act as a liaison between our company and the customer base through contracting and implementation process

You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• 2+ years of sales experience (Proven solid selling skills) OR 2+ years pharmacy experience
• Understanding of computer and related products; knowledge of PC skills including use of standard MS Office applications
• Willing or ability to travel up to 70% of the time
• Lives in or around Chicago, IL

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven ability to establish and maintain relationships
• Proven solid presentation skills

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.