Product Manager (Pharma) at a Multinational Pharmaceutical Company

Multinational Pharmaceutical Company is recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Product Manager (Pharma)

Location: Lagos

Job Summary
H/She will be responsible for elaborating and implementing marketing plans for the products in his/her portfolio over both short and long-term through effective planning, execution, control and training to achieve the sales profit and growth performance objectives in the annual budget.

Responsibilities:

• Contributes to the development and the validation of long range planning and forecasting models.
• Acts as brand champion to create enthusiasm and focus internally and with external customers and agencies.
• Contributes to the development of positioning and key strategies for the brand.
• Support and Build team to achieve team goals
• Implements the marketing plans and key strategies.
• Disease and market understanding to develop customer insights through appropriate techniques/tools
• Management of external agencies to meet team goals
• Maintains and updates the market intelligence databases.
• Evaluates the effectiveness of promotion and advertising programmes, using set guidelines, and makes recommendations for improvements within internal guidelines.

Qualification/Experience

• Scientific background (medicine, pharmacy, biochemistry, etc.). Specialization in Marketing could be an advantage.
• 2-3 years’ product management or other pharmaceutical management experience.
• In-depth knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry and its distribution system
• Effective strategic planning abilities
• Ability to communicate commercial value of our products to target audience
• Creative ability
• 1-2 years of Sales representative experience in the pharmaceutical market
• Computer skills must include working knowledge of Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook
• Effective forecasting, budgeting skills, Negotiation skills
• Goal and result oriented
• Proven team work with sales representative/managers

Application Closing Date:
22nd October, 2014

Method of Application
Qualified and interested candidates should kindly forward their CVs to: [email protected]