Job Description Summary
To build BD Diabetes Care business within his/her assigned territory by driving primary and secondary sales activities
Job Description
JOB DESCRIPTION: Area Manager –
Position Title:
Diabetes Care – Medical
Reports to:
Branch Manager –
Qualification:
Science Graduate/ B-Pharma or MBA
Experience:
5-7 years in Sales and market development
Position Summary
To build BD Diabetes Care business within his/her assigned territory by driving primary and secondary sales activities
Primary Sales Activities:
- Help in Setting up the distributor network in area under coverage
- Appointing, supervising and managing distributor related activities.
- Generation of Primary sales and supervising, aiding and tracking secondary sales.
- Execution of primary sales target and sales collection.
Secondary Sales Activities:
- Creating BD equity with the key influencers (Dr/ Nurses/ Para-medics) – via relationship building (using education of nurses/patients, and other marketing promotions as tools), leading to a prescription of the BD products.
- Ensuring trial of BD products by patients initiated on insulin in the territory – through prescription/recommendation by the Dr/ Nurses, promotion at retail stores, working with other insulin company representatives calling on the patients directly, or by interacting with patients directly.
- Ensuring availability of the BD product portfolio in retail stores, in hospital pharmacies, hospital stores by working in close collaboration with the 3rd party field force,
- Development of alternative distribution channels to reach retail pharmacies , Nursing home,
- Wholesale channel.
- Direct delivery to retail: DSR / delivery
- 3rd party entrepreneurs like Suppliers
- Managing third party sales force for focused patients education and retail merchandising (PE)
Account conversions:
- With direct working in the accounts (Hospitals/ NH/ / Institutes) and generate demand through end user work. (driving In-Service programs)
Principal Accountabilities
Creating BD equity with the key influencers (Dr/ Nurses/ Para-medics)
- Profiling: Collection of information on who is the key doctor to call. (Based on new insulin prescription generated by the doctor per week),
- Working on the BD value-add to these relationships: by a) Sharing Product related information, b) Clinical Updates on Diabetes Care and c) Organizing the education programs with the HCP and d) Co- hosted patient contact programs. (Program types – 1. Nurses Workshop, 2. Nurses Short Program, 3. Patient Education program, 4. Insulin Dependent Patient Program).
- Getting BD products mentioned on prescriptions: To verify if the MCL doctor 1. Explicitly writes BD products on the prescription (Active Prescription), 2. Does enough with the patient so that the patient leaves convinced of using a BD product, e.g. doctor uses a BD product on him, gives him a sample of BD, tells him to use BD brand, etc. (Passive Recommendation), 3. Does not recommend (Dr. does not do either 1 or 2),
Maintaining relationship with the Nurses and other HCP leading to explicit recommendations to the patients for the BD products.
- Meeting hospital/ nursing home officials (apart from the consulting doctor) to create a healthy working relationship with all stakeholders and seeking agreement to work with the nurses/ HCPs, for ward working and patient contacts. Also to determine the BD sales potential in the account.
- Planning and conducting interactive sessions (one on one) and workshops/ short education programs with the Nurses/ HCPs.
- Collecting feedback formally to continuously improve content and execution of the education programs.
- Ensuring the purchase department in the institution is buying from BD, by constantly keeping in touch .
Interact and build relationship with the insulin dependant patients
- Contacts generated through nursing homes, hospitals, clinics working and other opportunities – fairs, exhibitions, seminars, and/or referrals from insulin/Blood Glucose monitors company representatives.
- Seeking opportunities with the Doctors to meet and work with the patients (1X1, camps arranged by doctors/ institutions, etc.).
- Listening to the issues/ problems faced by the patients and seeking to solve those issues, or get the right information to them (if not available with self).
- Sharing diabetes related knowledge via high quality/ compassionate one on one interaction.
- Influencing the patient to try, use and buy BD products.
- Create a database of patients to enable a long-term association and relationship between BD and the patients.
Work with the 3rd party sales field force on product availability/ retail chemist coverage.
- Find out about, verify and maintain a list of the top 40% retailers of diabetes related products in the coverage towns.
- Meet with the chemists/ counter salesmen and find out their key motivations and also build a rapport with them.
- Work with the 3rd party sales field force to run marketing initiatives in the outlet. Train him on the execution of the initiative by on the job demonstration/ coaching. Track the execution of the marketing initiative in all the covered outlets.
- Build ongoing relationship and rapport via regular meetings and ongoing conversations/ discussions to earn his respect and co-operation in influencing consumers at retail.
- Tracking sales of total insulin syringes/ Pen needles in the covered retail stores.
Distributor Mgmt
- Managing distributor inventory / sales orders
- Achieve mutually agreed primary sales target, product wise, on weekly basis.
- Implement the price list at each level of the customer segment and ensure price stability.
- Ensure that orders generated from customers are supplied on time and in full (quantity & range).
- Maintaining optimum level of RDS inventory.
- Timely submission of Claims, check and verify the claims and ensure the proper utilization of promotional materials
- Ensure the timely submission of Stocks and Sales statement along with sales summary on monthly basis
Process adherence
- Maintaining and updating MIS in the agreed formats for the following :
- Customer profiling, Must Call List, conversion status evaluation, Stock & Sale statement, Town wise sales data, Product wise / town wise sales achievement & trends, activity details.
- Manage trade schemes in the most cost effective manner and claim settlement within the specified time frame.
- Adhere to the company norms of field work and reporting.
Market understanding
- Provide feedback on the effectiveness of the existing trade scheme and give recommendation for the most appropriate scheme.
- Develop understanding of how trade operates and acquire skills to deal with them.
- Gather market information on competitor activities, trends & practices and communicate them in a timely manner to Marketing Manager.
- Identify market opportunities and communicate it to Branch Manager and the concerned Marketing Manager.
Unique Knowledge & Skills
- Distributor / Distribution Management
- Ability to handle stress
- Negotiation skills
- One to many communication ( resulting in good ISP’s)
- Objection handling techniques
- Key account mapping
- Presentation and negotiation skills
- Clinical understanding
- Analytical problem solving
- Product knowledge
- Relationship skills
- Interpersonal skills
BD SUCCESS FACTORS
- Stretch / Result orientation
- Analytical Problem solving
- Decisiveness
- Customer focus
- Action orientation
- Ethical fitness
- Building team spirit