Are you a results-driven sales leader who thrives on developing high-performing teams, building strong customer partnerships, and creating meaningful impact for patients? As a Regional Sales Manager, you will lead a team responsible for driving the success of Boehringer Ingelheim's promotional portfolio within your territory.
Job Purpose:
Manages the business performance of promotional products in his/her territory while ensuring that the promotion fosters appropriate use and adheres to local regulatory and pharma code regulations. Also drives the flawless definition & execution of the team sales account plans aligned/based on the local activity/expert engagement plan.
Location: Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, and Chennai.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Ensure a balanced promotion of Boehringer Ingelheim products with adherence to local regulatory and pharma code requirements by all team members.
- Drive sales and market share target achievements by maximizing the number of appropriate patients that receive Boehringer Ingelheim products.
- Ensure the definition and flawless execution of team sales account plans based on the local expert engagement plan, while ensuring to:
- Analyse and profile customers
- Develop, implement and follow up of customer engagement plans, using all available channels
- Implement the customer engagement model, according to the adoption ladder and brand strategy within the respective team in each call
- Actively look for business opportunities
- Successfully complete all training requirements, including product examinations and ensure compliance to all external regulations and internal SOPs for self and team
- Implement Integrated Customer Engagement by all team members, ensuring:
- Cross functional coordination and collaboration to develop integrated customer journeys according to customer preferences
- Face to Face, Digital, Congresses and Continuous Medical Education
- Use of Digital Detail Aids and/or other approved scientific materials as basis for Health Care Professional's discussions
- Actively collaborate with the respective team to operate and optimize the implementation of the customer engagement strategy.
- Leadership & Team Management:
- Efficient use of resources based on business and market analysis
- Coach, inspire, develop and manage the team (according to sales calls and business decision taking) to provide high quality outcome
- Acting as driver for change management
- Managing potentials and sucession in respective team, accountable for team development
- Pro-actively provide feedback on team performance to BU Head
- Cross-functional alignment (Brand Teams, BU Head, other Regional Sales Managers, Market Access, Medical, Finance):
- Ensure high qualitative internal and external communication flow
- Provide feedback from the field to internal stakeholders in order to optimize strategic decision making
- Being a member of the Brand Team and contribute to brand-specific field force topics
- Comply with Boehringer Ingelheim policy, procedures and rules, performing all company business in accordance with the local and global policies
- Support the team of Specialty Care Partners in building capability and knowledge in healthcare ecosystem:
- Build knowledge and understanding about BI overall value proposition, and product's labeled indications and efficacy data among all relevant stakeholders in the Multiple Disciplinary Teams and Decision Making Unit.
- Conduct science-based discussions with HCPs and effective speaker programs with physician advocates and KOLs as per the approved indications of BI products.
- Arrange multidisciplinary workshops for physicians and other healthcare professionals.
- Actively support paramedics on patient support programs and other relevant engagements.
About our Future Employee
- Education: Bachelors or Higher Degree in Pharma or life sciences, Masters degree would be an added advantage.
- Atleast 7 years of overall Pharma Sales experience with at least 2 years experience of managing Specialty / Super Specialty / Key Account Management Teams.
- Requires a good understanding and theorethical knowledge in a subject area, requires a blend of formal knowledge and experience, understands how tasks are structured, how the business is organized and external best practices.
- Agility
- Results Orientation
- Project and Key Account Management