Maquet, a trusted partner for hospitals and physicians for more than 175 years, is a global leader in medical systems. The company offers innovative therapy solutions and infrastructure capabilities for high-acuity areas within the hospital - including the operating room (OR), hybrid OR/cath lab, and intensive care unit (ICU) - as well as intra - and inter-hospital patient transport. Additionally, Maquet develops intelligent and sustainable room concepts that exceed the expectations of modern hospitals, working in close cooperation with customers, production engineers and architects to integrate high quality products and services.
We are recruiting to fill the below position:
Job Title: Product Manager, Surgical Workplaces Projects
Job Code: 29049143
Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full-time
Job Description
Position Objective:
- The Product Manager for Projects is the owner of project sales funnel in Nigeria. The role is to grow the business and to sell the Maquet Surgical Workplaces and Critical Care portfolio as a primary responsibility and use the resources within the team to support all products. The role is to ensure the Maquet scope within any project is maximized. The role is to drive sales with the distributor and mainly to meet end customers to execute the deals with them. There will be co-ordination between distributors, end users. The primary role of the product manager is on the ‘push’ side of the Maquet Africa office to engage a distribution network and to grow the pipeline and ultimately sales and actively work with them. Product Manager is fully responsible for the sales results of his/her product line within the region, which includes Nigeria and potentially other central and western African countries.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Presenting Surgical Workplaces and Critical care products to customer base
- Manage local launches required to promote new and existing products
- Manage a sales funnel across the region and provide all required sales reports in a timely manner to the Business Development Manager
- Coordinate with team members to ensure highest possible Maquet scope delivered
- Work with internal reporting tools (COGNOS, MPulse, Travel Sheet)
- Keep updated technical info on products
- Work with Project Unit to handover technical data on projects to install
- To be proactive on marketing campaign and how best to launch the products into the markets
- To develop sales and pricing strategies and recommendation on how to develop the business further
- To work on the selling story and prepare the material required to sell specifically in Nigeria
- Keep presentations on all product lines up to date and ensure market message is consistent and clear
- Develop the strategy to sell Project and sales presentation in the region
- Any additional responsibilities deemed a necessity by the Business Development Manager to grow the project business
Desired Skills and Experience
- Must be at least Graduate, Preference for a Biomedical Engineer
- Minimum 5 years’ experience, preferred in:
- Construction Sales experience
- Hospital Capital Equipment Sales
- Radiology equipment incl. PACS / RIS equipment
- Must speak good English and have good communication skills
- Must be able to confidently present products and solve problems
- Microsoft Office skills should be excellent
- Good presentation skills
- Willing to travel extensively throughout Central and Western Africa
Application Closing Date
Not Stated.
How to Apply
Qualified and Interested candidates should:
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