medical sales representative
Medical sales representatives promote and sell medical devices, equipment and pharmaceutical products to healthcare professionals. They provide product information and demonstrate features to healthcare professionals. Medical representatives negotiate and close sales contracts.
Also called: medical sales person, medical device sales representative, clinical sales representative, medical sales businessperson, medical salesman, medical saleswoman, medical device seller, clinical representative
- 20
- essential skills
- 16
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
- 2433
- ISCO-08 group
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Essential skills
20- advise on medical device features
- advise on medical products
- carry out event management
- carry out sales analysis
- health care system
- issue purchase orders
- keep records on sales
- medical devices materials
- medical sales industry
- medical terminology
- medication classification
- negotiate sales contracts
- organise retail sampling events
- pharmacovigilance legislation
- prospect new customers
- provide customers with order information
- provide legal information on medical devices
- sales argumentation
- sales strategies
- supervise sales activities
Optional skills
16- apply social media marketing
- biomedical science
- biomedical techniques
- biosafety in biomedical laboratory
- develop online sales business plan
- digital marketing techniques
- drive vehicles
- manage budgets
- medical statistics
- merchandising techniques
- monitor technology trends
- perform market research
- pharmacology
- plan event marketing for promotional campaigns
- prepare exhibition marketing plan
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
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