Membership
Why Belong to HMMC?
Today’s healthcare environment is one of the most fiercely competitive and highly regulated in American business.Designing and manufacturing medical products and services is an expensive and complex process. And bringing the more than 80,000 different kinds of products and services to market today is not for the faint of heart. Successful medical products marketers today must possess not only the skills, but the knowledge and perspective about today’s ever changing marketplace. And they can’t do so in a vacuum.
Learn. Network. Succeed. These are the essential reasons for belonging to the Healthcare Manufacturers Management Council, the premier organization for high-level sales and marketing executives. HMMC members are among the best and brightest in their field, and possess not only a strong desire to continuously improve their professional skills, but a generous willingness to share their knowledge and experience with peers.
Learn
Educational opportunities abound in HMMC. Through two major conferences held each year, members have learned about such things as:
- Evolving government regulations.
- The complexities of reimbursement and their impact on sales and marketing strategies.
- The complex sales and marketing relationships among distributors and GPOs.
- How to coordinate messages of their company’s sales and marketing departments
- How to penetrate overseas markets, and stay abreast of emerging markets here and abroad.
- Ways to identify and educate customers, and own those relationships.
- How to improve leadership skills.
Network
Every professional association may talk about networking, but it is at the core of HMMC’s charter. Because HMMC membership is specific to sales and marketing professionals in healthcare, members have numerous opportunities to develop and foster important one-on-one relationships. Conferences provide invaluable networking opportunities, and members keep those relationships thriving throughout the year.
Succeed
HMMC members seek to raise the bar for everyone, and in so doing, leave their competitive differences at the door. More than anything, HMMC is a close, collegial network of professional peers who want to succeed and thrive in today’s marketplace. The organization fosters this by providing an energized and dynamic network for exchanging ideas in a positive and non-threatening forum.A membership in HMMC is an exclusive opportunity to learn about marketing and sales from the professionals responsible for bringing some of the most innovative and important products to the healthcare market today. HMMC members are those who have reached beyond the norm, and are never satisfied with their level of knowledge, skills and expertise.