Business Development Officer

Vijayadeep Laboratories

This job is expired 10 years, 7 months ago

Business Development Officer

Basic Job Information

Job Category	:	Healthcare / Pharma / Biotech / Medical / R&D
Job Level	:	entry
No. of Vacancy/s	:	[ 7 ]
Offered Salary	:	None
Apply Before(Deadline)	:	Sep. 08, 2013 00:00 (10 years, 7 months ago)

Job Specification

Education Level	:	Under Graduate (Bachelor)
Experience Required	:	Not Required

Other Specification

Should have excellent communication skill
Should be an outgoing and persuasive manner and ability to deal with people who hold differing beliefs or values
Should be confident
Should be patience and self-motivated
Should have strong networking skill
Should be commercial and business aware
Health care background or a background in the sciences will be an advantage

Job Description

Arranging appointments with doctors, pharmacists and hospital medical teams, which may include pre-arranged appointments or regular 'cold' calling
Making presentations to doctors, practice staff,hospital doctors, nurses, and pharmacists in the retail sector. Presentations may take place in medical settings during the day or may be conducted in the evenings
Organizing conferences for doctors and other medical staff
Building and maintaining positive working relationships with medical staff and supporting administration staff e.g. receptionists
Managing budgets (for catering, outside speakers, conferences, hospitality, etc)
Keeping detailed records of all contacts and reaching (and if possible exceeding) annual sales targets
Planning work schedules and weekly and monthly timetables. This may involve working with the area sales team or discussing future targets with the area sales manager Regularly attending company meetings, technical data presentations and briefings; Keeping up with the latest clinical data supplied by the company and interpreting, presenting and discussing this data with health professionals during presentations
Monitoring competitor activity and competitors' products
Maintaining knowledge of new developments and anticipating potential negative and positive impacts on the business and adapting strategy accordingly
Developing strategies for increasing opportunities to meet and talk to contacts in the medical and health care sector
Staying informed about the activities of health services in a particular area
Working with team managers to plan how to approach contacts and creating effective business plans for making sales in a particular area
Should work strategically to increase the awareness and use of a company's pharmaceutical and medical products in settings such as general practices, primary care trusts and hospitals