Business Manager

Merck Merck · Pharma · IND - Tamil Nadu - Coimbatore (Distribution)

This role is a Business Manager for Merck's healthcare products, focusing on sales, distribution, and people management within a specific area. It involves leading a sales team, identifying new business opportunities, managing distributor operations, and engaging with stakeholders like KOLs and distributors. The role requires experience in sales/marketing within the vaccines space and strong people management skills.

What you'd actually do

  1. Effectively lead a team of people to drive sales and people objectives and build a high performance and process adherence team culture.
  2. Identify new business opportunities, grow revenues by driving implementation of marketing/ promotion activities in the area.
  3. Monitor adherence to sales policies and procedures, monitor and track sales plans on a periodic basis, set sales, market share & distribution targets for the team, study market condition, set/cascade individual, team and territory wise goals, monitor financial targets/ budgets, guide and support market intelligence gathering and sales reporting including implementation of SFE & Digital KPIs.
  4. Monitor Distributor operations in terms of delivery time schedules at different steps of the distribution chain, ensure compliance with terms of trade, periodically monitor stock levels, interact with the supply team to ensure stock availability and timely distribution
  5. Network, Develop and Manage the relationship with KOL’s, distributors and vendors and build a positive image for Our company to ensure achievement of sales objectives and facilitate smooth sales operations through the stakeholders

Skills

Required

  • Account Management
  • Animal Vaccination
  • Business Opportunities
  • Channel Partner Management
  • Customer Service
  • Identifying Sales Opportunities
  • Lead Generation
  • Market Analysis
  • Marketing Implementation
  • Market Intelligence
  • Market Share Analysis
  • Order Management
  • People Management
  • Pharmaceutical Sales
  • Revenue Maximization
  • Sales Forecasting
  • Sales Management
  • Sales Objectives
  • Sales Process Optimization
  • Sales Promotions
  • Sales Reporting
  • Sales Strategy Development
  • Stakeholder Engagement
  • Strategic Planning