Celestica

Director, Business Development, Health Tech

Celestica$153K — $175K *
US-AnywhereRemote in New Hampshire, US
Healthcare
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in business development specifically in medical products.
  • Strong network within the medical industry is essential.
  • Bachelor's degree in Business or Engineering preferred.
  • Deep understanding of medical device industry regulations like FDA and ISO 13485.
  • Experience selling complex services globally to senior executives.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as primary contact for regional and strategic accounts in North America.
  • Develop and maintain strong relationships with customers and key decision-makers.
  • Identify and close new business opportunities globally.
  • Create account strategies aligned with customer priorities and company strengths.
  • Leverage industry knowledge to uncover growth opportunities for customers.
  • Gather competitive intelligence and create customer-specific commercial strategies.
  • Lead high-value sales conversations that challenge customer assumptions.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package offered.
  • Remote work flexibility with travel requirements.
  • Opportunity to engage with senior executives in the medical industry.
  • Potential for professional growth in a dynamic HealthTech market.
Full Job Description
Req ID: 139387
Remote Position: Yes
Region: Americas
Country: USA

Summary

This is a remote position with the preference to have this person located on the West Coast or Midwest with reasonable access to an airport.

Detailed Description

As the Sales Director, you will be responsible for targeting new customer engagements across various submarkets in the HealthTech space with focus on surgical instruments, patient monitoring devices, diagnostic imaging, in-vitro diagnostics, and other medical related devices.

This position is accountable to:
Develop strong and long-lasting insight-based relationships with our customers and identify mobilizers. The incumbent will act as the primary sales interface for several accounts on a regional basis. More specifically:

Core Responsibilities
  • Serve as the primary commercial interface for assigned regional and strategic accounts across North America.
  • Develop strong, long-lasting customer relationships and identify key mobilizers and decision influencers within target accounts.
  • Identify, pursue, and close new business opportunities within accounts you cultivate globally.
  • Build and execute account strategies, sales tactics, and value propositions that align customer priorities with company strengths.
  • Develop deep knowledge of customer businesses, including macroeconomic, microeconomic, and industry trends, to uncover future growth opportunities.
  • Gather competitive intelligence and translate insights into differentiated commercial strategies and customer-specific positioning.
  • Lead high-value commercial conversations by bringing unique, insight-based perspectives that challenge customer assumptions and reframe business needs.
  • Act as the voice of the customer internally, ensuring customer requirements, priorities, and feedback are understood and addressed across the organization.
  • Manage the end-to-end customer relationship process, including needs assessment, proposal development, and RFQ response coordination.
  • Establish value before financial discussion by articulating the cost of inaction, the risk of competitor solutions, and the business impact of proposed offerings.
  • Own personal revenue performance and maintain a minimum sales quota.
  • Attain your quota targets


Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

Core Skills and Qualifications
  • Strong communication, interpersonal, relationship management, and professional sales skills.
  • Proven success developing new clients, expanding into new markets, and growing existing accounts, ideally supported by a technical background in manufacturing or engineering.
  • Understanding of electronics and electromechanical products used in the medical device industry, including FDA regulations, ISO 13485, MDD, risk management, and new product development processes.
  • Experience selling complex services across a global network and managing multiple opportunities simultaneously through closure.
  • Strong strategic planning and execution capabilities, with the ability to translate business goals into actionable commercial plans.
  • Financial acumen, including the ability to understand profit and loss models and articulate sales impact on customer financial performance.
  • Value-based consultative selling, negotiation, business judgment, and decision-making skills.
  • Experience selling to senior executives and working directly with customer engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing teams to support product co-development, supply chain architecture, and manufacturing process development.
  • Exceptional cross-functional collaboration skills, including experience working with remote teams in large matrix organizations.
  • Demonstrated success carrying and achieving sales, revenue, or operational quotas.
  • Experience with Challenger Sales methodology highly preferred (or other sales training programs - Korn Ferry, Solution Selling, etc.).
  • Willingness to travel 30-50% as required.


Physical Demands

  • Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment.
  • Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data.
  • Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc.) are frequently required.
  • Overnight travel may be required.


Salary

The stated range includes Base Salary and target Short-Term Incentive (STI) compensation only. A comprehensive benefits package is offered in addition to this range.

The range described in this posting is an estimate by the Company, and may change based on several factors, including but not limited to a change in the duties covered by the job posting, or the credentials, experience or geographic jurisdiction of the successful candidate.

Base Salary Range: $153K-$175K Annually

Typical Experience

  • Minimum of 10 years of experience in business development and client relations specifically related to medical products (strong network into the medical industry is required)


Typical Education

  • Bachelor's degree in Business and/or Engineering preferred
  • Educational requirements may vary by geography.


Notes

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.

Location: This is a remote position, with travel as necessary. We are open to considering candidates close to any of our US locations in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Texas, Arizona, Oregon or California as well as locations near major airports such as the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest and Pacific Coast.

About Celestica

Celestica is a Canadian multinational electronics manufacturing services company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The company provides a range of services to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in the aerospace and defense, communications, enterprise computing, healthcare, industrial, semiconductor, and smart energy industries. Celestica's services include design and engineering, supply chain management, assembly and testing, and after-market services. The company operates in North America, Europe, and Asia and has manufacturing facilities in over 10 countries. Celestica was founded in 1994 as a subsidiary of IBM Canada and became an independent company in 1997.
Learn more about Celestica
Size
23,915 employees
Market Cap
$1.3 billion
Industry
Founded
1994
5 Year Trend
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