Strategic Account Manager, Clinical Solutions

Drive Growth. Make an Impact. Transform Healthcare. 

Are you passionate about healthcare and ready to take your sales career to the next level?

Do you thrive on building relationships, solving challenges, and helping customers succeed? 

Join Elsevier’s Clinical Solutions sales team as a Sales Account Manager and play a key role in delivering innovative SaaS solutions backed by Elsevier’s highly trusted evidence-based content to hospitals, healthcare systems, and home health organizations across the United States and Canada. 

About the Role

As a Sales Account Manager with a portfolio of healthcare clients, you’ll be the primary sales contact and trusted advisor responsible for developing long-term relationships, ensuring adoption, minimizing churn, and identifying opportunities to grow each account. We are seeking West Coast and Midwest applicants.

Responsibilities 

Retention

• Developing and delivering proactive engagement strategies, health checks, and business reviews. 

• Analyzing product usage and satisfaction to ensure renewals and long-term value. 

• Identifying risk signals early and take action to mitigate churn. 

• Negotiating contracts that are mutually beneficial to both the customer and Elsevier.

Strategic Expansion

• Identifying upselling and expansion opportunities aligned with customer goals. 

• Positioning additional Clinical Solutions products to meet emerging needs through consultative selling. 

• Leading sales motions from discovery through negotiation and closing. 

Relationship Management 

• Building deep, trusted relationships with stakeholders across clinical, administrative, and IT functions. 

• Serving as a consultative partner aligned to client objectives. 

• Studying market trends and become an industry expert within your designated health system region.

Sales Execution & Enablement.

• Owning the end-to-end sales process for renewals and expansions. 

• Coaching sales executives on expansion opportunities that meet customer needs 

• Forecasting accurately and manage pipeline using Salesforce CRM. 

Internal Collaboration

• Working closely with Sales Executives and Customer Success to drive results. 

• Sharing market feedback and help shape product improvements. 

• Supporting coaching, mentoring and training of new team members on occasion.  

Requirements 

• Have 2+ years of experience in healthcare sales or account management – ideally selling SaaS technology or information solutions to hospitals or health systems. (Bachelor’s degree required).

• Proven success in renewal management, upselling, or cross-selling.

• Display confidence when presenting to and influencing clinical, operational, and executive stakeholders.

• Have excellent presentation, communication, and strategic thinking skills.

• Able to thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment 

• Are skilled in using Salesforce CRM and Microsoft Office tools (Excel, PowerPoint, Word). 

• Able to adopt sales methodologies such as MEDDPICC, Challenger, Miller Heiman and/or Franklin Covey within your workflow. 

• Able to travel overnight, generally up to 30% of the time or based upon the needs of the business and our customers. 

Work in a Way That Works for You
We promote a healthy work-life balance and offer flexible working options. Our benefits include wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance, and sabbaticals—supporting both your immediate responsibilities and long-term goals.

Working for You
We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including:

Health benefits: medical, dental, and vision coverage
Retirement benefits: 401(k) with match and Employee Share Purchase Plan
Wellbeing: wellness platform, Headspace subscription, and Employee Assistance Programs
Insurance: short- and long-term disability, life, accidental death, critical illness, and hospital indemnity
Family benefits: parental leave, adoption, and surrogacy support
Savings accounts: HSA, FSA, dependent care, and commuter benefits
Paid time off, plus volunteer and Employee Resource Group participation days

About the Business
As a global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes. By combining trusted content with advanced analytics, we support research, education, and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to solving global challenges and building a more sustainable future.