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Brandon Costner

Wake Forest,NC
Brandon Costner

Summary

Enthusiastic Sales and Customer Service professional with expertise in communication and negotiating. Driven to provide superior quality customer service. Innovative in leveraging extensive knowledge of products and services as well as creating solutions for customers to drive loyalty, retention and revenue. Highly adept at training, managing, coaching with talent for interacting with staff at all levels of organization and public. Former Division 1 NCAA Collegiate Athlete with 12+ years of professional experience in numerous overseas leagues. Skilled in cultivating storing relationships with teammates, coaches, community members, and key stakeholders at all organizational levels

Overview

14
years of professional experience

Work History

Vanigent/Eli Lilly

Diabetes Sales Representative
2023.06 - Current (1 year & 3 months)

Job overview

  • Responsible for developing relationships with practitioners/customer who are prescribers/influencers of treatment for disease states represented in Lilly's Diabetes portfolio
  • Responsible for account-based selling in dedicated Diabetes and CKD practices and non-dedicated Diabetes practices to determine how to help more patients get benefits of Diabetes treatment.
  • Consistently Made on avg 8.5 calls per day on providers
  • Successfully routed territory with over 200 providers
  • Built relationships with these key customers to increase Lilly’s ability to drive adoption of our new and existing therapies.
  • Identified and developed business relationships with key customers, state and local advocacy groups, teaching institutions, key influencers/prescribers, and managed care organizations and establish oneself as a true expert and resource.
  • Develop deep professional/industry knowledge in Diabetes disease state represented in Lilly Diabetes and Obesity and Endocrine portfolios including knowledge of competitive products.
  • Built outstanding customer experiences by engaging in active dialogue to understand customer needs and delivering appropriate resources and relevant information to influence appropriate use of product portfolio.
  • Effective account management skills to develop account/customer target list, evaluate and set an appropriate territory workload, and achieve key efficiency parameters.
  • Utilized critical thinking and strategic mindset to understand the environment (payer, health systems, business) and gain access to the customers to make an impact on patients’ lives.
  • Worked collaboratively with territory BI and Lilly partners to leverage impact across my territory and district.
  • Utilized Javelin, Tableau, and Veeva software to manage customer accounts and track performance metrics.

NBA/CBA/Euroleague

Professional Basketball Player
2009.08 - 2022.11 (13 years & 3 months)

Job overview

  • Most Points scored by a Freshman in the ACC tournament
  • G Leaugue Scoring Leader
  • Made 9 All star teams
  • Achieved lifelong aspiration through proven work ethic, dedication and visualization.
  • Developed and maintained close association with various coaches and athletic personnel and attended meetings to further develop and promote tournaments.
  • Worked with coaches and trainers to understand and implement improvement strategies.

Education

North Carolina State University , Raleigh, NC

Bachelor of Arts from Communication Studies
04.2009

NYU School of Professional Studies , New York, NY

Fundamentals of Global Sports Management Certificate

University Overview

Continuing Education via LinkedIn

LinkedIN

Foundations in Marketing/Leadership

Skills

  • Interpersonal skills with ability to coordinate with partners
  • Communication and organizational skills
  • Account Based Selling experience
  • Project management, problem solving and analytical skills
  • Modeled sound decision making, organization, and time management skills
  • Participated in community outreach events, resulting in increased game attendance through successful marketing and ticket sales
  • Supervised youth basketball practices and clinics, teaching technical skills along with importance of health, fitness teamwork, and resilience while maintaining optimal role model services
  • Provided recreational sports and art programming for community camps during team service projects

Additional Information

* Launched the CKD indication for Jardiance

Timeline

Diabetes Sales Representative

Vanigent/Eli Lilly
2023.06 - Current (1 year & 3 months)

Professional Basketball Player

NBA/CBA/Euroleague
2009.08 - 2022.11 (13 years & 3 months)

North Carolina State University

Bachelor of Arts from Communication Studies

NYU School of Professional Studies

Fundamentals of Global Sports Management Certificate

LinkedIN

Foundations in Marketing/Leadership
Brandon Costner