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Medical Sales Representative Jobs in Kolkata - APSThe Pharma & Healthcare recruiter

Medical Sales Representative

APSThe Pharma & Healthcare recruiter
experience-icon 0 Years
salary-icon 15000 - 22000 Monthly
Expired

Posted: 07 Jul 18

Job Description

  • A medical representative's job is to promote and sell their company's products, whether that's pharmaceutical drugs or medical equipment. 
  • Customers can include doctors, nurses and pharmacists. 
  • The medical representative will increase product awareness, answer queries, provide advice and introduce new products.
Key responsibilities include:
  • organising appointments and meetings with community- and hospital-based healthcare staff
  • identifying and establishing new business
  • negotiating contracts
  • demonstrating or presenting products to healthcare staff including doctors, nurses and pharmacists
  • undertaking relevant research
  • meeting both the business and scientific needs of healthcare professionals
  • maintaining detailed records
  • attending and organising trade exhibitions, conferences and meetings
  • managing budgets
  • reviewing sales performance
  • writing reports and other documents
  • Promotional prospects are excellent – progression can be into senior sales/managerial roles or into related employment areas such as marketing or purchasing.
  • Advertise here Typical employers of medical representatives
  • Healthcare and pharmaceutical companies employ medical representatives. 
  • Jobs are advertised online, by careers services and in newspapers, trade magazines and publications such as New Scientist, Drug Tariff and Journal of Woundcare, as well as their respective websites.
  • There are several specialist recruitment agencies and consultancies that also regularly advertise vacancies. 
  • Job shadowing, networking and speculative applications are advisable. 
  • Pre-entry sales or hospital/medical work experience is advantageous.
Qualifications and training required:
  • Employers normally prefer graduates with relevant qualifications in life sciences, pharmacy, medicine, nursing or dentistry. 
  • New recruits normally receive an initial period (up to six months) of intense training, following which they may shadow experienced sales staff before commencing work on their own.
  • Many new sales executives also take the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) examinations within the first few years of work.
  • A full driving licence is also a common requirement.
  • Employers may also look to hire applicants with a background in sales and the capacity to learn about scientific and medical details. 
  • If you want to go down this route straight after school, an A level or Scottish Higher in science might be advantageous in demonstrating your scientific ability. 
  • To find out more about how you can get into similar careers via a school leaver route (eg an apprenticeship or school leaver training programme) see the sales and science sections of TARGETcareers, our website aimed at school leavers.
Key skills for medical representatives
  • Commercial awareness
  • Sales skills
  • Maturity
  • Confidence
  • Patience
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills
  • Organisational skills.
  • Experiance- Freshers(Male & Female both can apply)
  • Salary-1,5000-2,50000 p.a
  • Job Location- Kolkata

Job Particulars

Education B.Com, B.Pharm, BA, M.Com, M.Pharm
Who can apply Freshers
Hiring Process Face to Face Interview
Employment TypeFull Time
Job Id445732
Job Category Pharma
Locality Address
Country India

About Company

APS is one of the Best Pharmaceutical Placement Consultant of Kolkata/ West Bengal / Eastern zone having strong presence in placement, training & staffing solutions, with geographical focus across eastern parts of India to a wide range of clients that includes MNC’S, LTD, Pvt. Ltd. companies & organizations.you would want to know more information about us, search in GOOGLE, as 'TOP CONSULTANT IN KOLKATA, as well as BEST CONSULTANTS OF KOLKATA/WEST BENGAL you will find only APS as PREMIERE PHARMACEUTICAL PLACEMENT CONSULTANT in eastern zone of India. 

We are providing candidates to our valued Corporate Clients starting from Medical Representative to Sales Manager for the eastern zone as well as Product Manager, Product Executive, Brand Manager, Production Manager of national level. Few of our Corporate Clients whom we placed our candidates are 

ABBOTT , BAXTER,
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