Medical Sales Representative -Fresh Graduate

MENARINI Group; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 300,000 - 450,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading pharmaceutical company is seeking Medical Representatives in Johannesburg. This role offers fresh graduates a chance to start a career in healthcare, connecting with healthcare professionals to promote the company's products. Key responsibilities include educating HCPs, managing territory, and meeting sales targets, alongside maintaining professional integrity and compliance with regulations.

Qualifications

• Freshly graduated or 1 year of experience in sales in the pharma industry.
• Proficient in both English and Afrikaans.
• Must have an active driving license.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality scientific information to healthcare professionals.
• Promote the company's products to educate HCPs.
• Research competitor medications and their market performances.

Skills

Effective communication skills

Strong negotiation skills

Planning and organizational skills

Self-confidence

Team player

Education

Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy or similar

Tools

Microsoft Office Skills

Job description

# We are hiring Medical Representatives – Fresh Graduates

An Exciting Opportunity for Fresh Graduates willing to be a Medical Representative at Menarini South Africa.

Are you a recent graduate with a passion for healthcare and a drive to make a difference? We’re on the lookout for enthusiastic and motivated individuals to join our dynamic and growing team in South Africa as Medical Representatives.

This is more than just a job—it’s an excellent opportunity for fresh graduates to launch their careers in the pharmaceutical industry and start journey in the healthcare field at Menarini.

We are looking for candidates in Johannesburg East.

DESCRIPTION AND AIM

The role of Medical Representative is to deliver the highest quality scientific information to the largest number of HCPs, regarding Menarini’s prescription drugs and if needed over-the-counter drugs, in individual or group clinics, hospitals and pharmacy setting in order to grow the company business. In doing that, the Medical Representative will represent Menarini, embodying the core values of the company, always acting at the highest standard of integrity, in adherence to the Menarini Code of Conduct and in compliance with local and international laws and regulations.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES AND SCOPE

Main Responsibilities:

• Learn about drugs and diseases at the highest standard and keep scientific knowledge up to date.
• Promote the company’s products to healthcare professionals in order to educate them on the value that Menarini products bring to the patients/customers in the area.
• Manage a master-list of doctors (General Practitioners plus possibly a selection of Specialists) and Pharmacists to ensure the coverage of the right HCPs at the right frequency of visit (territory management). This will imply planning visits to individual HCPs, group presentations in hospital/clinics, attendance at local medical events or regional, national congresses.
• In case of activity in Pharmacy, tasks may be delivering scientific information to pharmacist, stock availability checking, servicing requests from pharmacists, educational events implementation, order taking where allowed, collecting general market feedback.
• Research competitor’s medications and their respective market performances.
• Ensure the achievement of sales goals and targets in the assigned territory.
• Keep abreast of new developments in the medical field to determine the effect of such developments on the company’s business strategies
• Establish and develop relations with key personnel in all facilities in the assigned territory.
• Provide reports to supervisor regarding territory status, to include forecasts, proposals and business reviews.

Company Procedure & Follow-Up Process

• Comply with the data integrity policy and commitment.
• Monitoring and analyzing the processes and ensuring that the necessary actions are taken for improvement.
• Maintaining, backing up and archiving (or ensuring that they are made) all records under her/his responsibility as determined and destroying the records under his/her responsibility as determined when the retention period expires.
• Fulfilling and implementing responsibilities mentioned in all procedures of the company.
• The process is managed in accordance with Company Procedures; s/he is responsible for ensuring that the activities of the inputs and outputs are correct, the resources are sufficient, the process is monitored, the records are kept, the performance is measured and, when necessary, reporting on these issues.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Education Level: At least Bachelor degree

Education Faculty / Department: Pharmacy, General Medicine, Dental Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, Life science or similar education

Work Experience: Freshly graduated or 1 year of experience as a sales in the pharma industry

Technical Knowledge: Microsoft Office Skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Language: English and Afrikaans

Other: Having an active driving license

COMPETENCIES & SKILLS

• Effective communication and presentation skills
• Strong negotiation skills, Influence, impact and convince others
• High learning agility skills
• Self-confidence and personal resilience
• Planning and organizational skills
• Energetic, enthusiastic and good team player
• Strong work ethic and high level of energy & integrity