Medical Sales Representatives Job Vacancies in a Drug Manufacturing Company

Global Profilers is a Recruitment & HR Services firm specialized in recruitment in Africa; we are currently looking for Medical Sales Representatives for our client who is a drug manufacturing company.


Job Title:  Medical Sales Representative [MSR] 

Responsibilities
The Medical Sales Representative is primarily responsible for selling medical products and services to health professionals. He/she will increase awareness and use of the company’s products thereby increasing revenue in the assigned territory.

Other responsibilities are:

• Focuses sales efforts by studying existing and potential volume of dealers and achievement of sales target
• Services existing accounts, obtains orders, and establishes new accounts by planning and organizing daily work schedule to call on existing or potential sales outlets and other trade factors.
• Keeps management informed by submitting activity and results reports, such as daily call reports, weekly work plans, and monthly and annual territory analyses.
• Monitors competition by gathering current marketplace information on pricing, products, new products, delivery schedules, merchandising techniques, etc.
• Recommends changes in products, service, and policy by evaluating results and competitive developments.
• Resolves customer complaints by investigating problems; developing solutions; preparing reports; making recommendations to management.
• Provides historical records by maintaining records on area and customer sales.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
• Prompt collection of payments for supplies made and remits same to company accounts.
• Our customers (distributors, institutions, hospitals, clinics, pharmacies etc), have the company products properly displayed
• Developing strategies for increasing opportunities to meet and talk to contacts in the medical and healthcare sector
• Making presentations to health care professionals including Doctors, Pharmacists, nurses, Lab technicians, etc
• Adjusts content of sales presentations by studying the type of sales outlet or trade factor.
• Submits orders by referring to price lists and product literature.
• Any other task assigned by management

• Bachelor Degree in life sciences, pharmacy, medicine, nursing or dentistry
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a similar role
• Excellent communication, negotiation and sales skills
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Highly motivated and target driven
• Strong Organisational and Time management skills
• Commercial awareness
• Sound territorial knowledge of the assigned location is a must
• Ability to understand and present clinical data
• Proven pharmaceutical sales experience (an advantage)
• Knowledge of MS Office