Cardinal Health, with over 1,300 employees in Canada, is an essential link in the Canadian healthcare supply chain, providing over 70,000 products to healthcare facilities and medical professionals across the country.
The Key Account Manager, Long-term Care is responsible for developing, managing and expanding relationships with strategic provincial and national long-term care, retirement, and senior living corporations. This role is accountable for driving profitable sales growth, enhancing customer loyalty, maximizing contract compliance, and delivering comprehensive Cardinal Health solutions across assigned corporate accounts.
The incumbent serves as the primary liaison between Cardinal Health and senior leadership within assigned corporate customers, ensuring alignment of strategic objectives, product utilization, service offerings, and supply chain solutions. The role requires cross-functional collaboration with commercial sales and support, clinical specialists, marketing, supply chain, finance and leadership teams to deliver value-driven solutions that meet customer needs and support Cardinal Health's growth strategy.
The successful candidate will lead strategic account planning, identify growth opportunities, negotiate and support corporate agreements, and maintain strong relationships with key decision-makers across multi-site long-term care organizations.
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Your Contributions to the Organization:
Develop and execute strategic account plans that strengthen relationships with senior leaders and partners to align mutual business objectives and drive long-term growth across assigned long-term care and retirement accounts.
Serve as the primary relationship manager for strategic corporate customers, leading regular business reviews and ensuring a high level of customer satisfaction, retention, and partnership.
Develop and execute customer growth strategies by collaborating with internal partners to deliver integrated solutions, strengthen customer relationships, and ensure consistent delivery of the organization's value proposition.
Achieve sales and performance profitability targets by identifying growth opportunities, expanding product and service adoption, increasing preferred supplier participation, and securing new business.
Build and expand strategic partnerships with long-term care, retirement, and senior living organizations while identifying opportunities to standardize programs and solutions across customer networks.
Analyze customer performance, purchasing trends, market dynamics, and industry developments to identify opportunities, address challenges, and position the organization as a trusted strategic partner.
Lead contract management activities, including performance monitoring, renewal planning, compliance oversight, negotiation support, and implementation of customer agreements.
Promote value-added solutions that improve value to the customer through operational efficiency and service to enhance performance outcomes for the customer and align with strategic priorities.
Maintain accurate account plans, forecasts, and opportunity pipelines while preparing and delivering business reviews, performance updates, and executive presentations to support informed decision-making and account growth.
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, healthcare, or a related field preferred.
8-12 years of sales experience with a consistent record of meeting or exceeding targets, preferably with large non-acute customers.
Experience selling to large long-term care organizations.
Strong business, financial, and account management acumen.
Experience managing complex portfolios, products, or distributor relationships.
Strong contract negotiation and relationship management skills.
Excellent communication, presentation, and facilitation skills.
Proven ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, Outlook, and Salesforce.
Ability to work effectively across teams in a matrixed organization.
Customer-focused, collaborative, and results-driven.
Benefits: Cardinal Health offers a wide variety of benefits and programs to support health and well-being.
Flexible health and dental benefit plans with immediate coverage
Disability and life insurance coverage
Defined Contribution Pension Plan with company matching
In addition to vacation, paid time off for family/health/personal needs
Maternity, Paternity and Parental leave top-up program
Health & Wellness resources and programs
Tuition reimbursement and continuous learning programs
Company Fleet / Allowance Program
Long-term incentive program
Anticipated pay range: $123,400 - $165,988 (includes targeted variable pay)
Position currently vacant: Yes
The salary range listed, including variable commissions, is an estimate and is not guaranteed. Pay at Cardinal Health is determined by multiple factors including, but not limited to, individual and company performance, experience, skills, and other business factors.
Cardinal Health is committed to employment equity and encourages applications from women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples and persons with disabilities.
Cardinal Health is committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process, in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). Our Human Resources team is responsible for working with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of the hiring process.
Cardinal Health Canada is proudly recognized as a Great Place to Work® in Canada. As an essential partner in Canadian healthcare, we strive every day to build a culture of inclusion and collaboration, where team members can be their authentic selves, grow in their careers, and be proud to serve our customer partners.
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Candidates who are back-to-work, people with disabilities, without a college degree, and Veterans are encouraged to apply.
Cardinal Health supports an inclusive workplace that values diversity of thought, experience and background. We celebrate the power of our differences to create better solutions for our customers by ensuring employees can be their authentic selves each day. Cardinal Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, creed, status with regard to public assistance, genetic status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.
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Skills Required
- 8-12 years of sales experience with a consistent record of meeting or exceeding targets
- Experience selling to large long-term care organizations
- Strong business, financial, and account management acumen
- Experience managing complex portfolios, products, or distributor relationships
- Strong contract negotiation and relationship management skills
- Excellent communication, presentation, and facilitation skills
- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, Outlook, and Salesforce
- Ability to work effectively across teams in a matrixed organization
- Customer-focused, collaborative, and results-driven
- Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, healthcare, or a related field
Cardinal Health Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Cardinal Health and has not been reviewed or approved by Cardinal Health.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off is frequently described as generous, including examples like multiple weeks of vacation, additional sick days, and in some roles even “unlimited” or untracked time off. Parental leave, paid holidays, and volunteer time further broaden the overall leave offering.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage is positioned as comprehensive, with added supports such as preventive care, telehealth/clinic access, mental health resources, and EAP counseling. Wellness programs and incentives (e.g., premium discounts tied to checkups or healthy lifestyle actions) add to the perceived breadth of healthcare-related support.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company match, along with programs like stock purchase/equity participation and charitable matching, contribute to a stronger total rewards picture beyond base pay. Additional financial supports such as disability coverage and early wage access also enhance the overall package.
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What We Do
Cardinal Health is a distributor of pharmaceuticals, a global manufacturer and distributor of medical and laboratory products, and a provider of performance and data solutions for healthcare facilities. With 50 years in business, operations in more than 35 countries and approximately 44,000 employees globally, Cardinal Health is essential to care. We are navigating the complexities of healthcare and providing scaled solutions to help our customers thrive in a changing world. We strive to be a trusted healthcare partner by driving growth in evolving areas of healthcare, while building upon our distribution, products, and solutions to meet customer needs.

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