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Sales Associate - Joint Replacement

Posted 24 Mar 2024
Work experience
0 to 1 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Degree level
Required language
English (Fluent)

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Job Description

We are looking for a Sales Associate to join our West Midlands ( Shropshire, Staffordshire & Warwickshire) Joint Replacement Sales team, to both support sales of our Joint Replacement Portfolio and also any future introductions of the MAKO Robots within your region.

Working closely with an experienced Sales Representative Team, you will develop and foster strong relationships with key opinion leaders. You will take an active part in customer education in the field, supporting the Sales Representative and region to achieve greater customer engagement and commercial success. You will actively pursue business opportunities to grow Stryker business in targeted accounts, and always display exemplary customer service and patient focus.

Should a MAKO Robot be placed in your region this extra responsibility will require you to take on the more technical tasks of supporting the Robots use in Hospital, which would include delivering training, supporting its use in Theatre and making sure it maintenance schedule is maintained.

Key Tasks:

  • Develop the skills required to become an effective sales representative.
  • Develop the skills required to support and drive MAKO Robotic platform, should one come to your region.
  • Learning and practicing the techniques required to grow the volume of a defined territory through sales of Joint Replacement products.
  • Learn to manage business in accounts within an existing sales territory and become responsible for the day to day running of key accounts.
  • Become proficient in dealing with; stock issues, instrument requirements, organising loan kits, organising and carrying out regular customer training, learning to provide guidance on orthopedic surgery in a hospital theatre environment.
  • Supporting other sales managers to allow them to concentrate on new business acquisition, new account development.

Essentially this a training role with a view to becoming a full time Sales Representative with independent targets and business objectives.

In this role you will be supporting all Joint Replacement related products, primary and revision.

This position is set up to work in a team targeted environment alongside two experienced sales Reps within the region. You will be covering the West Midlands, namely, Warwickshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire and Worcestershire

Key Activities & Accountabilities in this role

  • Learning the skills required to manage a territory effectively and grow business in line with Regional sales objectives.
  • Learn how to implement training sessions and workshops on the use of Stryker Joint Replacement products. Deliver these sessions to nurses, theatre practitioners and surgeons.
  • Develop knowledge and understanding of hospital needs, with a view to providing appropriate instruments and implants. Learn how to determine what quantities of kit to provide and the internal mechanisms to acquire kit and manage stock held in hospitals.
  • Learn how to gain an understanding of customers’ needs and identify the opportunity to promote and sell Stryker’s products. Training will be given on basic selling, presenting and negotiation techniques.
  • Gain an understanding of the different ways to provide product into a hospital through consignment of kit or use of our loan service and learn to manage these channels to best suit our customer’s needs.
  • Provide customer service to an existing customer base within the theatre and clinical environment. This will involve a specific set of hospitals where the candidate will have day to day communication and need to respond promptly to requests from customers in those hospitals. The candidate will be required to build relationships with key personnel in these hospitals.
  • At all times appreciate that provision of appropriate medical care for the patient is of paramount importance and our priority is to only ever recommend product that is appropriate.
  • Working closely with other Sales team members within the defined region, and the Regional Business Manager, to ensure customer service levels are best in class across that region. Attend surgeon training meetings and educational conferences.
  • Demonstrate outstanding ethics at all times. Treat customers and other employees with respect. Represent Stryker in the best possible light.
  • Audit theatre and hospital stock (implants, disposables and instruments) – manage consignment levels and ensuring good asset management and stock rotation. Become familiar with iPad application to manage and monitor stock held in customer accounts.
  • Learn how to conduct trials and evaluations of product in theatre and clinical environment as required.
  • Make observations of customer needs and liaise with sales colleagues to follow up on and introduce new or additional Stryker product and/or support.
  • Learn to record details of customers and maintain a basic business plan highlighting daily, weekly and monthly objectives. Start to develop the skills needed to prioritise where to allocate time and resource and how to grow business.

Job Requirements

  • Would be ideal / advantageous if had some sales or business experience but not essential.
  • Commercial acumen, an interest or experience of dealing with customers would be beneficial.
  • A medical background via experience and/or qualifications.
  • Computer skills, MS Office.
  • Presentation skills with modern presentation media.
  • Workshop/demonstration skills/training skills/presentation skills.
  • An interest in anatomy and physiology.
  • A background that demonstrates an ability to engage with others, influence, motivate and work hard.

Stryker is one of the world’s leading medical technology companies and, together with our customers, is driven to make healthcare better. We offer innovative products and services in Orthopaedics, Medical and Surgical, and Neurotechnology and Spine that help improve patient and hospital outcomes. Home to over 43,000 thousand employees worldwide, and $984 million spent on R&D in 2020 we are a career destination for results-driven individuals looking to make a difference in the world.

Healthcare
Amsterdam
Active in 45 countries
43,000 employees
50% men - 50% women
Average age is 30 years