Job Description Summary
The First Line Sales Manager (FLM) drives sales performance by leading a diverse commercial team and engaging with key stakeholders to drive tailored customer experiences and deliver value. They recruit, develop, retain and coach individuals to successfully deliver on strategic and commercial territory objectives. They instill a culture of high performance and accountability that inspires and motivates the team to execute on customer-centric brand strategy and tactics in a compliant and ethical way. The FLM leads, executes and follows up on brand strategy and tactics in their regions, sharing field insights in order to drive customer engagement and performance.
Job Description
Sandoz continues to go through an exciting and transformative period as a global leader and pioneering provider of sustainable Biosimilar and Generic medicines. As we continue down this new and ambitious path, unique opportunities will present themselves, both professionally and personally. Join us, the future is ours to shape!
Major accountabilities:
- Plan, adapt and communicate effective strategy for execution based on deep local knowledge, augmenting experience and instinct with data and insights -Translate the national customer engagement strategy and objectives into territory implementation plans to achieve agreed targets -Ensure and improve targeting accuracy -Ensure local plans are executed according to strategy and follow up to determine targets are achieved -Advocate critical processes necessary to support customer excellence and drive team engagement and adoption -Leverage available data to drive business performance and aid decision-making in complex and high-pressure situations, considering risks and impact
Key performance indicators:
- To be populated at local level, based on the guidance that will follow from IMI Field Engagement Performance Management Council outcomes
Minimum Requirements:
Work Experience:
- Able to understand changing dynamics of Pharmaceutical industry.
- Market Knowledge and Network is desirable.
- Pre-launch activities.
- Sales in Healthcare / Pharma / related business.
Skills:
- Analytical Skill.
- Change Management.
- Coaching.
- Collaboration.
- Commercial Excellence.
- Complexity Management.
- Compliance.
- Ethics.
- Healthcare Sector.
- Leadership.
- Management.
- Mentorship.
- Problem Solving Skills.
- Professional Communication.
- Team Work.
Languages:
- English.
You’ll receive:
Breakdown of benefits received in this role. Include flexible working, learning and development opportunities as well.
Why Sandoz?
Generic and Biosimilar medicines are the backbone of the global medicines industry. Sandoz, a leader in this sector, provided more than 900 million patient treatments across 100+ countries in 2024 and while we are proud of this achievement, we have an ambition to do more!
With investments in new development capabilities, production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help more patients gain access to low-cost, high-quality medicines, sustainably.
Our momentum is powered by an open, collaborative culture driven by our talented and ambitious colleagues, who, in return for applying their skills experience an agile and collegiate environment with impactful, flexible-hybrid careers, where diversity is welcomed and where personal growth is supported!
Join us!
Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion (hard coded in Workday):
We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.
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Skills Desired
Analytical Skill, Change Management, Coaching, Collaboration, Commercial Excellence, Complexity Management, Compliance, Ethics, Healthcare Sector, Leadership, Management, Mentorship, Problem Solving Skills, Professional Communication, Team Work
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Novartis is an innovative medicines company. Every day, working to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives so that patients, healthcare professionals and societies are empowered in the face of serious disease. Our medicines reach more than 250 million people worldwide.
