Jody Talbert Email & Phone Number

Irving, Tx

Frontera Search Partners is a healthcare staffing and recruiting firm providing services for hospitals, clinics and ambulatory care facilities. Our focus is placing physicians, advanced practitioners, allied health, and nurses into permanent and temporary career opportunities. With over 20 years of experience, our service delivery model provides a refreshing and unique approach to the staffing and recruiting industry with unparalleled results.

Irving, Tx

Frontera Strategies, LP is a service organization that provides physicians with in-office heart, lung, and vascular diagnostic testing. We provide a comprehensive, convenient service to their patients that reduces unnecessary referrals and increases net operating income for the practice.

Identify, target and secure partnerships with Integrated Delivery Networks (IDNs) and hospital-based business delivering comprehensive medical equipment solution programs that reduce expenses, increase operational efficiencies and enhance revenue.Developed and deployed strategic sales and marketing plan for the $170M asset management organization, delivering revenue growth of $7M during the first 18 months throughout the southwest.Created alternate channel and strategic alliance partnerships with supply chain consulting firms, OEM, GPO and professional service firms.Participated as a member of the executive strategic marketing team conducting SWOT analysis, competitive landscape overviews and establishing concerted marketing activities and metrics.

Managed and executed a $21,000,000 national sales plan leading a team of more than 35 staff, including two regional vice presidents, four directors. Recruited, hired and trained high performing sales teams consistently increasing revenues by 35% annually, increasing top line revenues from $12,000,000 to $21,000,000 during tenure.Developed RPO (Recruitment Project Outsourcing), a new product line, designed specifically for large healthcare systems generating a minimum of $250,000 in revenue.Identified, developed and secured national accounts with healthcare systems, IDN’s and GPO’s such as Broadlane, University Health System Consortium, Baylor Healthcare, HCA, Kaiser Permanente, Texas Health Resources, Duke Health Systems, Scripps Health, Vanguard Health and Community Health Systems.

Managed and directed the execution of the Western Region sales plans and initiatives, leading a team of 12 consultants, exceeding a budget of $7,000,000.Designed sales teams, territories and established key performance indicators developing measurable and results-based marketing and lead generation program. Developed and sustained production of the Martin, Fletcher annual compensation and benefit reports. Information gathered through a real-time survey spanning a 12-month time period supports the calculation of salaries and benefits of physicians, nurses and allied professionals featured in modern healthcare and other syndicated print articles.

Managed and developed new business in the West/Southwest Region (TX, LA, OK, NM, AZ, CO, CA), scheduling and conducting client meetings with C-level Healthcare executives exceeding annual goal of $1,000,000.Negotiated and secured large retained contracts with hospitals, medical groups and long-term care achieving Marketer of the Year Award.One of the original three employees recruited by CEO to launch start-up firm in the highly competitive healthcare retained staffing industry exceeding first year revenue sales forecast of $5,000,000.

Responsible for business development providing consultation services to healthcare leaders to help meet their facility's recruitment and retention goals in the Southeast (FL, GA, AL, MS, NC, SC, TN).Scheduled and conducted client meetings for new business opportunities with C-level Healthcare executives exceeding quarterly goals of $250,000.Negotiated and closed large retained contracts building and maintaining long term partnerships with valued clients.

Bachelors Of Science Kinesiology, Physical Rehabilitation Focus; Biology Minor

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