Area Sales Manager

This is responsible for promoting and selling a portfolio of technical and/or nontechnical products and/or services and solutions directly to current and new end customers. Will also inform customers of new product/service introductions and prices. He/she will also create, monitor and revise lead generation plans to ensure a substantive sales opportunity pipeline

Essential duties & responsibilities:

• Implement sales activities to achieve budgeted sales and profitability goal for the assigned area / territory.
• Support Regional Sales Business Manager to promote products to individual doctors & hospitals in assigned region.
• Reach out to identify new business opportunities by means of tender & government businesses.
• Ensure efficient use of company's demo units in the territory.
• Collaborate & cooperate with ABM / ZSM as & when required.
• Retain key accounts & explore new accounts/business opportunities to build Strykers‘ customer pool
• Identify, develop & manage different channels of business (distributors & direct sales) in the area.
• Provide solutions to customers to meet their specifications on the basis of techno-commercial discussions
• Upgrade existing customers to newer technologies.

Experience:

• At least 1-4 years’ sales experience in healthcare, preferred surgical/clinical product sales or Pharma industries.
• Experience recruiting within the medical device, life sciences, biotech, pharmaceutical, or related industries a plus

Work Knowledge, skills & abilities 

• Good communication & interpersonal skills
• Understanding of technology/science behind equipment
• Sales cycle knowledge
• Solution mindset
• Ownership & accountability
• Ability to Develop rapport and good learning agility for knowledge and skills in selling and marketing
• Understand and create a basic business plan
• Able to Assess channel partners and customers’ needs and has good knowledge of key brands to open opportunities to sell.
• Prior experience in orthopedic segment will have an added advantage