Job Description
General Purpose
- Promote pharmaceutical product sales through effective interaction with health care professionals and organizations to increase the awareness and use of the company's pharmaceutical products.
Main Job Duties and Responsibilities
- Detail portfolio of drugs to Doctors and other health care practitioners
- Plan work schedules and timetables
- Plan and implement an effective call plan
- Build effective business relationships with health care partners and customers
- Prospect for new business
- Develop strategies to approach potential customers and increase sales
- Cold calling health care professionals to set up appointments
- Distribute information to health care profession
- Answer questions from health care professionals
- Oorganize and execute sales presentations
- Take sales orders from customers
- Organize group events and conferences for health care professionals
- Maintain detailed records of all contacts and meetings and creating reports when needed
- Keeping current with clinical data and presenting this data to health care professionals
- Keeping informed about the activities of health care professionals and organizations in a specific area
- Keeping current with the competition's products, service offerings and activity
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with all company support departments
- Provide after-sales service
Education and Experience
- Requires a Bachelor's Degree, preferably in Biological Sciences
- Comprehensive understanding of health sciences like epidemiology, biotechnology and pharmacology
- Experience in the pharmaceutical or health care industry
- Proven ability to promote and sell products and services
- On-the job company training program
- Good product knowledge
Key Skills and Competencies:
- Interpersonal and communication skills
- Persuasive ability
- Planning and organizing skills
- Problem-analysis and problem-solving skills
- Judgment and decision-making skills
- Negotiation skills
- Presentation skills
- Resilience
- Adaptability
- Integrity.