The Role
As the Director of Partnerships (Sales), you will lead and manage the aggregate sales process with prospective, enterprise level clients. Given the complexity of our clients, candidates must have experience navigating relationships with multiple stakeholders of large enterprises, as well as the ability to successfully execute a consultative sales style. Our target clients include health systems, physician groups, and laboratory companies.
Successful candidates are strategic, quick thinkers and problem solvers. The ideal candidate has a track record of closing deals, generating leads, pitching to new clients, and selling in a consultative manner. This candidate is a great collaborator, internally and externally, and is also an effective relationship manager. Candidates should also be ready to play a role in all aspects of the commercial business including build-out of internal company processes, recruiting, and interfacing with Cedar’s product & engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain relationships with prospective client partners
- Act as a strategic thought partner for leaders of client organizations throughout the sales engagement process
- Create compelling business cases for clients and shape key company materials such as pitch decks and case studies
- Navigate clients from the sales engagement through the on-boarding process including contracting
- Help shape Cedar’s commercial strategy in existing and new business areas
- Help build out internal processes for the Partnerships team
- Identify market needs and engage with Cedar’s product and engineering teams to evaluate
Required Skills & Experience
- 5+ years in business development, consulting, or sales
- Prior healthcare experience required
- Track record of managing relationships with clients
- Gravitas and communication skills to engage senior executives of large enterprises
- Comfortable working on a small team and a dynamic environment
- Collaborative team player excited to work on big problems
What do we offer to the ideal candidate?
- A chance to improve the U.S. healthcare system at a high-growth company! Our leading healthcare financial platform is scaling rapidly, helping millions of patients per year
- Flexibility to work from home or in the office, depending on what works best for you
- Unlimited PTO for vacation, sick and mental health days–we encourage everyone to take at least 20 days of vacation per year to ensure dedicated time to spend with loved ones, explore, rest and recharge
- 16 weeks paid parental leave with health benefits for all parents, plus flexible re-entry schedules for returning to work
- Diversity initiatives that encourage Cedarians to bring their whole selves to work, including three employee resource groups: be@cedar (for BIPOC-identifying Cedarians and their allies), Pridecones (for LGBTQIA+ Cedarians and their allies) and Cedar Women+ (for female-identifying Cedarians)
- Competitive pay, equity (for qualifying roles) and health benefits that start on your first day
- 401k plan with 3% employer non-election contribution
- Access to hands-on mentorship, employee and management coaching, and a stipend for learning and development resources to help you grow both professionally and personally
About us
Cedar was co-founded by Florian Otto and Arel Lidow in 2016 after a negative medical billing experience inspired them to help improve our healthcare system. With a commitment to solving billing and patient experience issues, Cedar has become a leading healthcech company fueled by remarkable growth. Over the past several years, we’ve raised more than $350 million in funding from investors such as Andreessen Horowitz and Tiger Global, bringing Cedar’s valuation to $3.2 billion.
Today, Cedar helps over 15 million patients annually—and partners with more than 50 leading healthcare providers, including Yale New Haven Health, Summit Health, Novant Health, Allina Health, Providence, ChristianaCare, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona, CommonSpirit Health and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts.