District Account Manager

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At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at

Job Function
MedTech Sales

Job Sub Function
Clinical Sales - Hospital/Hospital Systems (Commission)

Job Category
Professional

All Job Posting Locations:
IN005 Chennai

Job Description
Key Responsibilities
:

Sales Turnover

• Sell franchise products within a territory and provide weekly and monthly sales action plan to manager, reflecting the activities required in each account to achieve sales objectives.
• Analyze sales reports to find opportunities, recognize routine problems, causes and recommend solutions.
• Negotiate and close sales in routine situations and with guidance when handling more complex deals.
• Participate in Trade Displays and Conference as in when required.

Territory Management

• Develop understanding of customer and their needs i.e. identify sales opportunities.
• Identify tender/contract opportunities and work with colleagues to deliver.
• With guidance, develop an effective and efficient territory plan.
• Work with retailers and ensure that they are brand ambassadors for our products.
• Identify and train surgeons on new technologies and solutions through consult-in-surgery, one-on-one sales calls, one-to-many training sessions.

Customer In-service Education & Training

• Work with manager to identify customer in-service needs to support customer delivered healthcare services and use of products efficiently and effectively.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with all levels of customers.
• With assistance, co-ordinate and deliver in-services education sessions.
• Advise marketing on customer's in-service education resource needs.

Key Account Management

• With guidance, prepare a plan to optimize key account development and sales growth.

Product & Market Knowledge

• Develop understanding and continually enhance personal understanding of product's features, benefits, correct product application and usage and anatomy, physiology and medical procedure knowledge, through practical experience, training programs, and learning from key end-users.
• Able to demonstrate application/usage of products and differentiate them from competitor's products.
• Develop understanding of competitive products, their features-advantages-benefits.
• Gather information on current practices, behaviors and attitudes.
• Vigilantly obtain usage data of all trained surgeons and monitor adoption.

Distribution Management

• Develop/implement distribution network for assigned territory.
• Ensure distributor health is as per agreed guidelines.

Expense, Equipment and Samples

• Judiciously manage AR, operating expenses, (transportation, A&P, entertainment, travel) while ensuring sustainable productivity
• Seek prior approval for budget variations
• Work within sample issue and co-ordination guidelines
• Agree expense budget/guidelines with immediate Manager
• Plan sample and expense utilization to optimize usage while remaining in budget

Self-Development

• Identify specific actions to improve job performance in specific areas
• Participate in nominated training programs
• Active self-learning strategies to maintain knowledge
• Focused effort to achieve high levels of performance in knowledge tests and competency assessments related to training
• Effectively apply new learning on the job.

Corporate Ethics and Governance

• Maintain a responsible and ethical approach while actively pursuing business outcomes
• Conduct business within ethics and values expressed in Credo
• Relationship with customers based on high ethical standards

Location: Kottayam
Education

• You will be a Science graduate or a post grad degree holder.
• You will have a minimum of 4-10 years of experience in Capital Equipment Selling.

Experience And Skills

• You will have experience in managing HCP KOLs.
• Your sales experience in laparoscopy products will be preferred.

Other

• Should be proficient in Hindi and English