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The Position

Sales Account Manager - Near Patient Care

A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That’s what makes us Roche. 
 

This is a field based role:

Location : Port Harcourt

Territory :Rivers, Cross Rivers, Abia, Imo, Akwai-Ibom, Enugu, Abia , Bayelsa , Anambra Ebonyi
 

The Opportunity

Roche Diagnostics in Nigeria is seeking for a Sales Account Manager - Near Patient Care (NPC) to join their team.

The Sales Account Manager - NPC is specialized in selling and promoting medical devices and PoC instruments for a particular product line to customers in the territory. Implements sales plans designed to achieve established revenue and financial goals. Accounts are key, highly strategic, and have complex requirements.

Responsible for significant key partner relationship management and development strategy for strategic accounts and ensures the strategy is executed. Sells the company's products or services to new accounts and/or expands existing accounts. Responsible for the development of new business opportunities or emerging areas. Focuses on critical, large, complex, highly visible, strategic or tactically important accounts. Develops and presents comprehensive financial contracts which enhance profitability and protect margins. Works in coordination with cross functions to call on prospective and current customers. Conducts demonstration sessions on product characteristics. Involves technical personnel to resolve customer issues and problems as needed. May participate in the establishment of sales targets and design of the territory's sales plan, manages sales expenses.

Has broad expertise in the medical devices and clinical assay segment. Uses skills to contribute to development of company objectives and principles and to achieve goals in creative and effective ways. Viewed as an expert by the company and in the field. Has complete knowledge of all company products and services and may be tasked with sales/development of new or strategic products. Works on significant and unique issues where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangibles. Exercises independent judgment in methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results. Creates formal networks involving coordination among groups.

Key Challenges:

• Manages and leads the development and implementation of medical device sales strategies to attain assigned sales objectives for regular and highly strategic accounts

• Provides professional leadership in planning, organizing, and controlling balanced sales growth, continued account penetration, and customer satisfaction.

• Utilizes strong product/market knowledge and sales experience to manage complex sales and resolve customer questions and concerns.

• Retains, extends, and acquires customers through effective identification of opportunities and the creation and implementation of solutions.

• Establishes and builds strong client relationships that allow for growth, profitability and predictability. Communicates with other relevant Roche functions to ensure needed sales support and delivery of programs/products.

• Overnight travel as needed, including short notice, to most effectively and efficiently cover territory while maximizing customer facing time.

• Navigates the financial landscape of complex health systems, helping them to maximize their capital budget cycles to achieve growth goals

Who You Are as an Ideal Candidate:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience

• 7+ years relevant sales or equivalent experience required with the highest level of sales proficiency

• Excellent oral and written communication skills including making impactful presentations

• Proven leadership abilities

• Strategic planning, negotiation, contracting and problem solving skills

Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.