Specialist Product Advisor, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

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 ideally in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. You will be responsible for promotion and sales of our products and services within an assigned geographic area, product range, and/or list of customers’ accounts. This position requires traveling up to 25%.

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

• University Degree in medical, pharmaceutical, biotechnology or related field.
• Min. 2 years of experience in medical sales.
• 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.
• Fluent English.
• 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 English West Africa (West and Central 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.

Contact

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We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. 

At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.