What you'll do
As a Sales Representative with us, you’ll sell life-changing medicines within one of four therapeutic areas: Oncology, Respiratory, Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolic, and other diseases. Using your exceptional selling skills and personable attitude, you’ll build strong and strategic partnerships with healthcare providers across your territory – from clinicians and pharmacists to nurses and consultants.
The part you play in our business will be challenging, yet rewarding, requiring you to use your resilient, collaborative and diplomatic skillsets to make connections. The majority of your work will be field based, and will require you to be highly-organised, planning your monthly schedule, attending meetings and calls, as well as writing up reports.
Success Profile
No matter your experience or background, if you’ve got the passion and drive to progress, we’ll help you to succeed. These are some of the skills and capabilities we look for to ensure that success:
80%
Independent
As this is a mobile role, you’ll be doing a lot of your work on your own. Being independent will be an important skill when delivering on targets. This means staying resilient and motivated in order to work successfully and meet your territory objectives.
75%
Communicative
You’ll be connecting with a range of healthcare professionals with different product needs. Interpersonal and relationship-building skills are vital to your collaborative role. And, where possible, you’ll use those skills to proactively identify new business opportunities.
80%
Flexible
Being on the road, you’ll be able to manage your own time, working around your various tasks. For this, you’ll need to be flexible in the way you work with the ability to adapt to and take advantage of opportunities as they arise.
80%
Responsible
This is a heavily-regulated industry, so working within it means taking responsibility and being particularly observant when selling our products. This means managing your work and territory with diplomacy and in a way that is compliant.
Responsibilities
Job ID R-211833 Date posted 10/29/2024 Oncology Business Partner – Cairo
Introduction to role
Be part of fulfilling our ambition to be world leaders in Oncology. We are already the fastest growing team across the industry, and there are countless new indications and targets in our game-changing pipeline. We deliver this value through launch excellence, commercial effectiveness, and maximizing the lifecycle. By leveraging our commercialized portfolio, we are confident we can change the practice of medicine and redefine cancer treatment.
Accountabilities
- Engage healthcare professionals in dialogue about approved indications.
- Find new channels for proper treatment of patients such as NGOs, co-payment for insured patients.
- Responsible for different accounts mapping with engagement plans.
- Follow up with all stakeholders in the assigned accounts (Payers, Diagnostics, Purchasers & Pharmacists).
- Achieve sales targets and assigned Sales KPIs in line with our policies and procedures.
- Leverage all available data sources to create, dynamically prioritize, and adapt relevant territory and customer engagement plans.
- Build interpersonal inclusion through self-awareness, developing curiosity, and active listening, strengthening team/peer inclusion.
Essential Skills/Experience
- 2 years’ experience in Pharma commercial / Science background.
- Oncology/Hematology/Immunology/Specialty Experience.
Desirable Skills/Experience
- Excellent communication skills in English/Arabic.
- Experience with strategic accounts & KOL management.
- Presentation skills, digital abilities, and learning agility.
- Effective interpersonal and team-building skills.
- High level of emotional & social intelligence.
At AstraZeneca, you will enjoy the vibe, entrepreneurial spirit, and autonomy of a leading biotech with the security and investment of a global pharma. Here, every one of us works to the highest standards to protect our patients, our people, and our planet. You will be supported to define the career you want to build, encouraged to take ownership, develop new abilities, and expand your skills. Join us in making a difference where it truly counts.
AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.
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Benefits
There’s a whole spectrum of perks that come with being a Sales Representative. From taking on the responsibility to enjoying opportunities to progress vertically and laterally. Discover some of our benefits:
Progression
We set you up to progress at every stage with structured goals and targets. There are also many routes you can take, from sales team management to product management, and beyond.
Autonomy
The work you do will allow you to take on a lot of responsibility, getting to know your product and owning the way you work – from your schedule and territory, to your strategy and the development of goals.
Performance based
We reward based on your performance. So, by creating a big impact – both on our commercial growth and your personal development – you’ll be rewarded well.
Training
Our training is of a high quality. From onboarding to on the job training, from learning from peers to product training, discover multiple opportunities to develop.
