Work Flexibility: Field-based
Sales:
- Ensure the development and execution of detailed sales plans
- Foresee market changes and prepare selling strategies accordingly
- Identify new business expansion opportunities including distributors and agents and develop plans to realize these opportunities
- Provide continuous updates and forecasts on market and sales results and trends
- Conducts win/loss analyses to understand key drivers and communicates these concisely and regularly to product, marketing and executive management.
Business Acumen :
- Set sales targets and plans
- Manage a sales & opex ratio
- Create Annual Strategic Plan for sales channel
- Foresee forecasting processes
Communication:
- Establish strong relationships with KOLs as well as senior management of distributors/agents and manage these relationships proactively
- Establish good working relationships with Stryker staff both inside and outside of Japan
- Ensure the ability to represent Kanto region in monthly & quarterly reviews to stakeholders both internal and external to Stryker Japan
Experience:
- 5 or more years’ experience working in a multinational company in medical / pharmaceutical / sales / distribution in expanding commercial roles
- Thorough knowledge and success of sales / distribution processes and applied selling / commercial skills
- Preferably, already well familiar with the Medical Devices (Electrophysiology) industry and with the key decision makers
Competencies
- High communication skills to carry one’s points in constructive and cooperative manners with internal and external stakeholders
- Motivation for exercising honest leadership to tackle business issues
- Experience of engaging in business case development, or at least intensive discussions with business side, to define and validate the value of the product in the development with skills and knowledge in marketing, strategic planning and/or finance
- Knowledge of regulatory affairs, quality assurance, and manufacturing for medical device
Travel Percentage: None