Medical Marketing Representative Job Description and Medical Representative Salary.

The Medical Representatives promote, market, and distribute a variety of medicines, controlled drugs, and other pharmaceutical products to both health professionals and medical establishments. In this sense, Medical Representatives can choose to work independently or autonomously or to be hired by pharmaceutical companies, laboratories, health centers, or organizations.

Medical Marketing Representative Job Description and Salary

Principal functions

Here are the most common functions of a Medical Representative:

1. Meet with Physicians and health center employees to make presentations designed to persuade potential customers to choose your products over those manufactured by the competition:
2. Evaluate the needs and resources of customers, in order to recommend the most appropriate products.
3. Provide information regarding the particularities, benefits, and advances in the development of a product.
4. Prepare reports and proposals as part of the sales presentation to show the benefits of using the product.
5. Respond to any concern that the client may have about the consumption, price, regulations, and availability of the product.
6. Inform customers about promotions or discounts.
7. Prepare and manage sales agreements.
8. Follow up, after the sale is finalized, to provide the necessary assistance to customers for problem solving.

Combine your interpersonal skills, service vocation and knowledge of the medical products area in order to make the sale:

• Identify potential clients using directories or references from existing clients, in addition to attending medical conferences and conventions.
• Cultivate and maintain customer relationships, keep records, and have in-depth knowledge of the company's products.
• Make offers to potential customers and identify possible promotions to offer.
• Analyze and report sales and the volume of movements at the level of calls, activities, and budget movements.
• Guarantee compliance with the standards of operations, guidelines, and applicable legislation.
• Be up to date about new products, regulations, treatments, and advances in the pharmaceutical industry market, in addition to monitoring the impact and development of products made by the competition:
• Attend conferences, conventions, and other business activities to meet customers and sales representatives for the purpose of discussing new product development.
• Read and get information about new and existing products.
• Monitor sales, prices, and products of the competition.

Salary

The median salary for a Medical Representative is Rs 4,80,000 per year or Rs 400 to 700 per day. This is around 4.5 times more than the median wage in the country. Entry-level positions start at Rs 1,20,000 per year while most experienced workers go as high as Rs 4,80,000.