Medical Representative at a Reputable Pharmaceutical Firm - Great Career Consult

Great Career Consult - Our client, a reputable Pharmaceutical firm in  Lagos State, is currently recruiting suitably qualified candidates to fill the position below:

Job Title: Medical Representative

Job Ref: MER0316
Location: Lagos
Reporting To: Medical Sales Manager

Job Description

• Our client, is seeking to fill the position of a Medical Representative who will be responsible for selling medical products to hospitals, clinics, doctors' offices, and healthcare professionals. Sells products such as medicines and drugs to be used in general practices, primary care trusts, hospitals and pharmacies.

General Responsibilities

• Travel to defined geographies to sell medical products.
• Contact potential customers at hospitals, clinics, doctors' offices, rehab facilities, and nursing homes to sell medical products.
• Arrange appointments with doctors, pharmacists and hospital medical teams.
• Cold-call or go door-to-door.
• Deliver presentations to doctors, practice staff and nurses in GP surgeries, hospital doctors and pharmacists in the retail sector.
• Build relationships with medical staff.
• Provide competitive information such as bid situations, pricing data, or bundling arrangements in order to establish negotiated pricing contracts for assigned products.
• Perform product demonstrations and application support.
• Improve product knowledge and sales techniques.
• Travel throughout assigned territory to call on regular and prospective customers to solicit orders or talks with customers on sales floor or by phone.
• Research competitors.
• Occasional joint working with managers, product executives for greater effectiveness of the calls
• Achieving assigned targets for every brand of the company
• Attending weekly, monthly or quarterly Sales Review Meetings to discuss target versus achievement, product promotion strategies, new launches, and future sales planning
• Giving feedback to marketing department about competitor activities
• Attending regular training programs for updating medical as well as pharmaceutical knowledge
• Gathers, analyzes and delivers information from the field to allow the company to develop strategies and products appropriated to the Quality and Safety Testing market.
• Coordinate all issues with key clients between sales, service, support, customer services, marketing and finance.
• Take orders and disburse receipts.
• Estimate time and date of delivery.
• Stay informed about the activities of health services in a particular area.

Requirements
Education:

• HND / Bachelor's Degree in Life Sciences (such as Biology, Pharmacy, Nursing, Dentistry or Biomedical Science)
• Candidates with Business or Marketing Degrees with relevant experience and knowledge of medical sales, may also applied

Skills and Abilities:

• Sales and negotiation skills
• Networking skills
• Communication, planning and organizational skills
• The ability to understand and present clinical data
• An outgoing and persuasive manner and the ability to deal with people who hold differing beliefs or values
• Confidence and persistence
• Patience and self-motivation
• Analytical and planning skills
• A flexible approach to work in order to adapt to changes, for example in the healthcare system or product and drug formularies.

Application Closing Date
Ongoing.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Resume and a Cover Letter/e-mail to tell us why you are interested in and qualified for this position to: career@greatcareerconsult.com.ng Please indicate the position applied for the as subject of the mail.

Note

• CV's should be in MS Word format and any applicant who applies more than once for this job post will be disqualified automatically
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted after review of applications.
• All communications will be treated in strict confidence.