
Territory Sales & Application Manager - Cape Town (Invitro Diagnostics)
- Cape Town, Western Cape
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Design and develop product specific training on various discipline specific equipment.
- Delivery of technical and customer training to internal and external customers
- Provide customer training on new and existing product technology.
- Application support / troubleshooting to customers and engineers
- Scan the market: Identifying potential customers; using the exiting list; adding to the list; visiting laboratories and hospitals.
- Product promotion: Based on the scan, identifying potential customers; visiting customers, identifying their needs, and explaining the products and benefits.
- Funnel management: Making their own prospect funnel list, identifying customer requirements and customer details; keeping track of timelines of execution; making and tracking their own database.
- Product presentation: Making a follow up appointment and demo the product; taking the potential customer to another customer’s place to demo the product; else take the product to the customer’s site; showing videos in case physical demo can't happen.
- Organizing demos with customers: Setting up time with the customers; arranging for logistics support.
- Customer Support: Managing logistics; organizing with distributors to ensure that the customer gets it on time; in case of any breakdowns, contact the service person.
- Negotiating with customers to agree on the quote.
- Taking the order: Signing the order form with the customer, managing tender follow up.
- Coordinating with other functions like service, applications, logistics, Finance.
- Pre-Installation Requisite: (PIR) Handling the site preparation; organizing the basic requirements like printers, etc at the regional office level.
- Inventory of re-agents at customers and suppliers; ensuring stock at the customer site and reserve stock at the distributors site; checking with customers on items that are running short; educating the customer on what should be stocked.
- Operating Term Lease: Tracking and monitoring the re-agents required at the customer site.
- Compliance: Following up of compliance on contracts; visiting customers to check this
- Meeting with existing customers: Understanding their issues and what they can do better; sharing product literature; sending scientific emails etc, Attending training programs.
- Attend exhibitions, Conferences and Trainings
- Networking with fellow colleagues – valuable to exchange information and solutions to problems
- Visit Customers on regular basis to create awareness of Products and new product developments.
- Involve either Applications/Service or both with customer visits to promote and sell our services.
- Academic Days – responsible for compiling the agenda and getting speakers to present.
- Involved following up customer survey reports related to product issues.
- Attend all Company meetings as scheduled to familiarize myself with all current activities with the Company.
- Check all proposals and presentations to be in line with Company policies and procedures.
- Ensure Sales see all customers and not only the current or loyal BC Customers
- Have1:1 meeting with Sales to establish needs or support and to identify possible new business opportunities.
- Cape Town Region - Be familiar or know the region / location very well.
- Manage a large territory / region and develop a Territory Plan, drive area Forecast and identify the gaps, find countermeasures for gaps.
- Visit Customers and build customer relationships, Stakeholder mapping.
- Drive Opportunities and Sales Activities, identify & create new leads and submit to support functions.
- Provide quality training to customers.
- Interpret data from Sales Analyst on a weekly basis.
- Responsible for enhanced product/s portfolio or specialist product (variable volume segments)
- Working independently in the assigned territory and independently prepare quote as per the sales process.
- Strong funnel management control – SFDC Daily Management
- Working with local application and service associate to resolve customer problem at a local level.
- Applications Report writing & Application Customer workshops, assisting sales with marketing and conferences etc.
- Managing training rooms and instruments in Applications
- Managing training Application material and Excellent facilitation skills
- Maintaining relevant and discipline specific shared folders in Applications
- Daily management activities for Application Support
- Travel domestically and internationally for work (80%)
- Bachelor’s degree in (B.Sc. Medical Sciences, Clinical Pathology, or equivalent qualification and/or Qualified Medical Technologist with a proven experience track record in Commercial Direct Sales and Application Support.
- 7 – 10 years’ experience in a Corporate Sales environment, preferably in IVD / Medical Devices industry.
- Experience in laboratory management and student training
- Proven experience in the full training cycle i.e., needs analysis, curriculum design, training delivery and evaluation.
- System Knowledge: Oracle, Business Objects, SFDC (Sales force dot com) and SharePoint
- Microsoft Office Suite – MS Word, Power Point, Excel, Outlook, and One Note, Microsoft Teams.
- Strong analytical and Application troubleshooting skills.