Do you have a strong desire to improve the quality of people's lives? Would you like to promote Novo Nordisk's diabetes products with strong customer obsession? Do you want to work for a prestigious pharmaceutical company? If your answer is yes, then this is your defining moment. Apply today and join us for a life-changing career. Be part of the game-changing organization!
The Position
As a Specialist Product Advisor, you will be based in Ivory Coast. You will be responsible for promotion and sales of our products and services within whole country, product range, and/or list of customers' accounts. This position requires traveling.
Your main responsibilities will include:
- Ensure territory sales, analyse, and diagnose territory, make, and execute territory plan. Execute according to marketing strategy.
- Work according to business ethics procedures, local law, Novo Nordisk way and policies, quality standards & guidelines.
- Build effective relationships with assigned customers, provide them with information on our products, devices and indications and ensure consistent follow up.
- Participate in and contribute effectively to regional meetings, national conferences, and other Novo Nordisk meetings, participate in and contribute effectively to cross functional collaboration (field functions). Organising (educational) customer events and ensure follow up.
Qualifications
To be successful in this role you should have:
- University Degree in business, marketing, commercial or related field.
- Min. 3 years of experience in medical sales.
- Experience from multinational pharmaceutical company is great advantage.
- Proficient in initiating new business.
- Strong attention to quality and detail, good planning and organizational skills and the agility and willingness to quickly adjust to new situations in a continuously developing environment.
- Good decision-making and problem-solving skills and excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, and the ability to negotiate.
- Willingness to collaborate with stakeholders and drive their personal development.
- English good to have.
- Good computer skills.
Regarding personality, we are looking for self-starter, self-driven candidate who is comfortable to work alone, able to achieve targets, dynamic, high performer, person who is having experience with no supervision.
About the Department
Novo Nordisk Middle Africa, which the West and Cental Africa Business Unit is affiliated with, was formed in early 2012. Novo Nordisk has an established presence with human insulin in Africa and our focus today is to sustain the growth of the market, ensure the availability of better-quality modern insulin within the markets and support the communities living with diabetes.
Working at Novo Nordisk
We are a proud life-science company, and life is our reason to exist. We're inspired by life in all its forms and shapes, ups and downs, opportunities, and challenges. For employees at Novo Nordisk, life means many things-from the building blocks of life that form the basis of ground-breaking scientific research, to our rich personal lives that motivate and energise us to perform our best at work. Ultimately, life is why we're all here - to ensure that people can lead a life independent of chronic disease.
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What We Do
Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company, founded in 1923 and headquartered in Denmark. Our purpose is to drive change to defeat diabetes and other serious chronic diseases such as obesity and rare blood and endocrine disorders. We do so by pioneering scientific breakthroughs, expanding access to our medicines, and working to prevent and ultimately cure disease.
We are powered by technology. Our Global Research Technologies, Medical Devices as a software, and Data Science teams are on the cutting edge of developing and supporting our life-saving medications.
Why Work With Us
Our purpose is to drive change to defeat serious chronic diseases, built upon our heritage in diabetes. We do so by pioneering scientific breakthroughs, expanding access to our medicines and working to prevent and ultimately cure the diseases we treat.
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