Regional Sales Manager- Biosurgery

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Caring for the world, one person at a time has inspired and united the people of Johnson & Johnson for over 125 years. We embrace research and science -- bringing creative ideas, products and services to advance the health and well-being of people. Every day, our more than 130,000 employees across the world are blending heart, science, and ingenuity to profoundly change the trajectory of health for humanity.

At Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies, we are using our breadth, scale, and experience to reinvent the way healthcare is delivered and help people live longer, healthier lives.

In a radically changing environment, we are making connections across science and technology to combine our own expertise in surgery, orthopedics, vision and interventional solutions with the big ideas of others to design and deliver physician and patient-centric products and solutions.

As pioneers in medical devices, we continually focus on elevating the standard of care—working to expand patient access, improve outcomes, reduce health system costs and drive value. We create people-centered healthcare to help the patients we serve recover faster and live longer and more vibrantly.

• Sell franchise products within a territory in various market segments.
• Make significant contribution to the development of the region's business plan by implementing the strategic imperatives of the franchise.
• Provide weekly and monthly sales action plan for the manager, reflecting the activities required in each account to achieve sales objectives.
• Anticipate unfavorable variance in sales and provide inputs and follow-up actions to prevent/close the gap
• Successfully negotiate and close complex deals in key accounts and with key customers.
• Lead in organizing trade displays and Conferences when required.

• Conduct SWOT analysis for the territory responsible
• Develop/implement sales strategies and plans to achieve sales target.
• Set realistic, attainable sales objectives by account and product group, and by monthly, quarterly, and annual targets.
• In-depth understanding of customer needs to identify sales opportunities.
• Tender management to participate in tenders for State and Central owned govt institutions.
• Actively pursue contract opportunities
• Responsible for maintaining/gaining market share in the territories handled as per plans.
• Creatively plan for expansion of challenging territories and conversion of difficult accounts
• Identify opportunities for tapping into new market segments.
• Participate in developing promotional support materials for use during sales calls.
• Has broad understanding of internal organization (J&J) resources, priorities, needs relating to the business operations and achievement of sales plan.
• Has detailed knowledge of sales process and expert selling skills to make effective sales call, to teach others, and to improve on current process.

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with all levels of customers.
• Develop key opinion leaders in the region and make engagement plan with them.
• Enable new procedure adoption in the region using relevant training intervention.
• Proactively identify Professional Education needs to develop the awareness level among customers.

• Expert knowledge of product's features, benefits, correct product application and usage, anatomy, physiology and medical procedure, knowledge, through practical experience, training programs, and learning from key end-users
• Has thorough information on competitor's structure, culture, manpower, distribution, capabilities and weaknesses
• Analyze market trends, identify threats and opportunities and recommend and implement strategies and plans to address them
• Share competitive information and suggestions for countering competitors with colleagues.
• Thorough knowledge of customer's support for competitive products and services and develop plans to differentiate J&J/competitive offerings, to effectively influence customer preference to J&J offerings.

• Judiciously manage AR, operating expenses, (transportation, A&P, entertainment, travel) while ensuring sustainable productivity in assigned territory.
• Seek prior approval for budget variations.
• Ensure compliance of team to sample issue and co-ordination guidelines
• Agree expense budget/guidelines with immediate Manager.
• Plan sample and expense utilization to optimize usage while remaining in budget.

• Set goals for all team members
• Lead and enable sales team for driving effective sales
• Conduct monthly/quarterly discussions with all team members
• Create development plans for all team members
• Complete year-end evaluation for all team members
• Share field visit reports with individual team members after each visit

Ensure self and team cadence to franchise processes like Omnipresence reporting, procedure updates, timely HCC closure, Sample utilization report submission and Axonify participation

Identify specific actions to improve job performance in specific areas.

Participate in nominated training programs.

Active self-learning strategies to maintain knowledge.

Focused effort to achieve high scores in performance in knowledge tests and competency assessments related to training.

Effectively apply new learning on the job 

Maintain a responsible and ethical approach while actively pursuing business outcomes.

Conduct business within ethics and values expressed in Credo.

Relationships with customers based on high ethical standards

Science graduate. Management degree/diploma from premiere institute.

Must have 4-5 years’ experience in sales/marketing.

Preferably in Medical Devices Sales.2+ years of experience as people manager with proven track record will be preferred.