Vitas Sales Representative at VITAS Healthcare in Bakersfield, CA, United States

Job description

• You’re a strong communicator. You thrive on challenges. You’re passionate about helping others and hungry to learn a meaningful, evolving business.
• If you’re a motivated professional who wants to grow into a mission-aligned career, you’ll find the tools, mentorship, and momentum here.
• Adaptability in dynamic, people-driven environments
• A solution-oriented mindset that thrives on overcoming obstacles
• The heart and drive to connect, educate, and truly make a difference
• Every day, you’ll help ensure that patients and families receive comfort, dignity, and peace at life’s most important moments. And in doing so, you’ll grow your career, your confidence, and your sense of purpose.
• This is more than a sales role—it’s a calling. Ready to answer?

Responsibilities

• As a VITAS Representative, you’ll be at the front line of change—educating physicians, healthcare leaders & professionals about the value of hospice care. You’ll:
• Build trusted relationships with physician, healthcare leaders & professionals
• Confidently guide referral sources through understanding the prognostication, the value proposition of hospice & how to have effective conversations for families facing serious illness
• Champion the benefits of the Medicare hospice benefit
• Work alongside clinical partners to ensure patients receive the right care at the right time
• This is a role for someone who’s ready to grow, eager to learn, and driven to serve.

Requirements

• Minimum 2 years sales experience or in healthcare services preferred
• Participated in competitive team environment that involved individual accountably and teamwork
• Able to demonstrate examples on critical thinking and created solutions
• Past military service a plus
• Experience with volunteer organization a plus
• Hospice experience preferred but, not required
• Evidence of achieving sales goals within the market and/or demonstrates track record of consistently exceeding corporate goals
• Strong customer service, sense of urgency and problem solving skills
• Time Management and Organizational Skills
• Demonstrated knowledge and successful application of a need satisfaction selling process
• Ability to manage a territory, to conduct sales calls and to generate sales by building long term business partnerships
• Strong interpersonal skills within all levels of an organization
• Bachelor’s degree preferred

Skills

Required

• Strong customer service
• Sense of urgency
• Problem solving skills
• Time Management
• Organizational Skills
• Critical thinking
• Solution-oriented mindset
• Adaptability

Preferred

• Hospice experience
• Past military service
• Volunteer organization experience

Benefits

• - Competitive compensation
• - Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
• - Pre-tax healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts
• - Life insurance
• - 401(k) plan with numerous investment options and generous company match
• - Cancer and/or critical illness benefit
• - Tuition Reimbursement
• - Paid Time Off
• - Employee Assistance Program
• - Legal Insurance
• - Roadside Assistance
• - Affinity Program