Product Specialist Rep - Cape Town Verfied

Salary Negotiable Cape Town, Western Cape Cape Town, Western Cape more than 14 days ago 24-08-2015 3:37:20 PM
21-09-2015 3:37:20 PM
Reporting:
National Sales Manager

Department
Nutrition Sales Portfolio

Duration
Permanent

Location :
CPT

Salary:
Highly Negotiable including benefits

Job Summary

Product Specialist Rep (Nutrition) with a Bachelors’ Degree and 2 years of Sales experience within Healthcare Industry / Hospital environment / medical sales specifically in Nutrition is needed by International leader in the healthcare industry.
Ideally looking for a dietician with experience in this portfolio to be responsible for achieving sales targets and implementing sales strategies in order to attain sales volume, customer growth, patient growth and customer satisfaction for the assigned therapies and / or medical products within own geographical area.

Essential duties and Responsibilities
• Achieve revenue, sales, profit & qualitative objectives and targets for the assigned therapies and / or medical products within own geographical or business area
• Manage day-to-day relationships with assigned customers & plan visits with them
• Build and develop professional long-term customer relationships
• Prepare, implement and review targeted account plans aligned with the commercial policies defined by Company
• Plan and prepare for each customer visit and record outcomes
• Propose and provide each customer with appropriate solutions that will maximize opportunities both for the customer and for company
• Communicate all relevant information to existing and potential customers to guarantee their awareness of our company product portfolio and its benefits
• Acquire new customers
• Capture and maintain all relevant sales and customer data
• Gather and share with other sales reps and with line management all possible information on market intelligence and competitor activities to help anticipate competitive moves
• Maintain presence in all existing & target customers
• Deal with customer complaints & implement corrective actions
• Continuously assess the market for new customers / opportunities / risks for company products
• Finalize budgets and forecasts in cooperation with line management / Marketing
• Present company products & their advantages, organize & distribute all needed promotional material and organize test usage where needed
• Participate in congresses and other customer events
• Provide customer training and support / assistance where needed
• Works closely with Product Managers, Account Managers / Reps and Sales Support
• Identify tender renewal and respond to tenders with support of line manager / Marketing (where applicable)


Education/Experience

• Bachelor’s degree required – Dietetics
• Minimum 2 years of Sales experience within Healthcare Industry / Hospital environment / medical sales specifically in Nutrition