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Novo Nordisk
Field Sales Manager
Cape Town
November 5, 2024
Field Sales Manager
Category: Sales
Location:Cape Town, Western Cape, ZA
Are you a passionate sales leader looking to play important role in improving lives of people with diabetes? Do you excel at coaching and developing teams to drive innovation and maximize business potential? If so, you could be our next Field Sales Manager, driving sustainable market share and representing Novo Nordisk's values in Western Cape and Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
Apply today and join us for a life-changing career.
The Position
As our Field Sales Manager, you will be responsible for building and generating sustainable regional market share by effective execution of sales and marketing plans. You will be managing and developing sales team to maximize the existing business potential. You will play a key role in this mission by working directly with healthcare professionals. You will also educate and support the medical community on best practices, and the most effective methods for treating diabetes.
Key accountabilities will include:
- Build regional sales capability and manage sales team to reach and exceed sales targets of a defined geographical area/territory.
- Develops and ensures execution of sales plans, targets, and budgets within national sales strategy.
- Coaching, development and motivation direct reports in sales team. Create a ‘we are all in it together’ cross functional team spirit within your team and cross functional departments.
- Collects & reports data about customers, sales field activities, competitor’s activities, health care environment developments.
- Effectiveness of sales promotion resources allocation.
Qualifications
To be successful in this role, we require you to have very good understanding of local pharmaceutical market and strong product portfolio knowledge. You also must have good managerial skills and team building personality focused on coaching and leading to bring effectiveness sales strategies.
To be effective in this role, it is mandatory to have:
- At least 5 years of experience in medical sales with a minimum of 2 years of experience as a line manager is required.
- A university degree, preferably in Science, Healthcare, or a related field, is preferred.
- knowledge of MS Office is necessary.
- A driving license and willingness to travel within Western Cape and Port Elizabeth are also required.
As a person, you need to have excellent communication and presentation skills, solution driven people management and coaching skills, customer centric and patient centric mindset, Team Player with ability to make things happen.
About the department
At Novo Nordisk, we are the world leader in diabetes care and a major player in defeating other serious chronic conditions such as obesity, growth hormone-related disorders and rare bleeding disorders. We use our skills, dedication and ambition to help people with diabetes and other chronic or rare diseases. The Diabetes Sales Team leads Novo Nordisk’s robust cardiometabolic product portfolio, which includes world class therapies for the treatment of diabetes, obesity, and the reduction of adverse cardiovascular events. As part of the team, you will have frontline exposure to our portfolio vision, business strategies, and critical market insights that drive our business forward.
Working at Novo Nordisk
At Novo Nordisk, we don’t wait for change. We drive it. We’re a dynamic company in an even more dynamic industry, and we know that what got us to where we are today is not necessarily what will make us successful in the future. We embrace the spirit of experimentation, striving for excellence without fixating on perfection. We never shy away from opportunities to develop, we seize them. From research and development, through to manufacturing, marketing, and sales – we’re all working to move the needle on patient care.
Contact
To submit your application, please upload your CV in English.
We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.
At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.
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