Job Summary
The South region represents a high-growth and strategically important territory, with strong presence of reference laboratories, academic institutions, and leading oncology centers. The RSM - South will drive revenue delivery, market expansion, and portfolio adoption across Core Histology, Advanced Staining, and Digital Pathology.
This role reports to the General Manager - India & South Asia and is expected to execute growth strategies and ensure strong regional contribution to India's revenue commitments.
Responsibilities
In this role, you will have the opportunity to:
- Develop and maintain strong, long-term relationships with senior decision-makers, influencers, and clinical champions across key hospital groups in the South region.
- Lead strategic commercial engagements for major contract negotiations, pricing structures, and multi-site partnership agreements.
- Deliver revenue and margin targets for South India, ensuring effective execution of account strategies.
- Own and deliver annual bookings and revenue targets for the South region.
- Expand business in key hubs including Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Chennai.
- Identify new growth pockets across tier-2 cities and emerging private hospital chains.
- Drive competitive conversions and portfolio expansion within installed base.
- Drive upselling, cross-selling, and portfolio penetration across Histology, Advanced Staining, and Digital Pathology.
- Analyze account-level performance, sales trends, customer preferences, and competitive activity to refine strategies and identify new opportunities.
- Build customized, multi-year key account plans aligned with customer priorities and Leica Biosystems strategic objectives.
- Ensure cross-functional collaboration with Marketing, Service, Finance, Supply Chain, and Clinical Applications teams to support customer needs and deliver value.
- Forecast business performance accurately and maintain strong pipeline visibility in CRM (SFDC).
Essential requirements
The essential requirements of the job include:
- 12+ years of commercial experience in Medical Devices / Diagnostics / Healthcare / Life Sciences, with 5+ years in People Management roles and leading regional sales team
- Proven experience managing large hospital networks or corporate healthcare groups, including multi-stakeholder mapping and complex negotiation cycles.
- Strong capability in building strategic account plans and driving account growth.
- Deep understanding of sales performance metrics, pricing, margins, and value-based account development.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder influence, problem-solving, and presentation skills.
Travel Requirements
Ability to travel up to 75% across South India.
Preferred qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Biomedical Science, Medical Technology, Business or related field.
- Experience in Pathology, Laboratory Diagnostics, Surgical Oncology, or Medical Device solutions.
- Strong familiarity with SFDC / CRM platforms and proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.