Location: Lagos, Abuja, Ibadan, Kano, Onisha, Port-Harcourt
Career category: Advocacy/Communications
Years of experience: 3-4 years
Responsibilities:
- Effectively and efficiently cover assigned territory and maintain a list of healthcare providers/customers by building business relationships with them and ensuring adequate distribution.
- Cover hospitals, clinics, maternity homes, PPMVs, pharmacies, supermarkets, convenience stores and individual providers regularly to ensure availability of our products.
- Achieve monthly sales target and cash collection.
- Diligently implement the medical detailing program of the organization in the area of responsibility and educate providers on family planning and the various contraceptive methods.
- Implement number of calls daily, visit all distribution channels as specified, achieve sales target and merchandise as per organization’s guidelines and standards.
- Write and send meaningful field sales report with photos.
- Act as a link between the organization and the providers and execute the sales/distribution, medical detailing objectives, build capacity of the providers, identify and report training needs of providers accordingly.
- Building the organization’s image in the respective working areas and territories.
Required Skills:
- Excellent communication skills (including written, oral and presentation skills)
- Attention to details and good medical detailing skills
- Strong problem solving & analytical skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Good knowledge of Microsoft packages (Word, Excel & PowerPoint)
- Extensive knowledge of marketing strategies, channels, and branding
Requirements:
- Hold a bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy/Pharmacology/Biological Sciences
- Minimum of 2-3 years medical detailing experience with a multinational pharmaceutical company
- Be prepared to travel frequently within the assigned territory
- Must possess a high level of integrity and responsibility
- Advanced presentation, analytical and communication skills (oral and written)
- Should be market oriented
- Good computer skills (Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and QuickBooks).
- Strong customer service, interpersonal skills, and professional disposition
- Understanding of medical ethics principles.
- Passionate about working on international health and development, with a focus on all reproductive health issues.
- Proven ability to work with many people across diverse backgrounds.
- Ability to juggle multiple competing deadlines while staying organized and paying special attention to details.
- Ability to drive organization vehicle and has a valid driver’s license.
The candidate we hire will embody PSI’s corporate values:
- Measurement: You use hard evidence to make decisions and guide your work. You set clear goalposts in advance and explain clearly if you need to move them.
- Pragmatism: You will strive to deliver the best possible result with the resources available. You will not be paralyzed by a need to make things perfect.
- Honesty: You own your mistakes and are open about your shortcomings – it is the only way you will learn and improve.
- Collaboration: You will quickly establish a mental map of whom you can rely on for what, on your team, at headquarters, and in our country offices – if you try to do it all yourself, you will not succeed.
- Trust: You accept limits to your sphere of control and give colleagues the benefit of the doubt.
- Commitment: You are in it for the long-haul and want to grow with the organization, just like PSI serves its consumers and partners with host-country governments through thick and thin.
How to apply
*Applications shall be reviewed on rolling bases.
* Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply
All interested and qualified candidates should send their comprehensive resume with a cover letter as ONE PDF/Word document to the e-mail addresses [email protected] and using the position title as the subject of the e-mail.
