Business Development Manager - Institution Business

About AbbVie

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

• Deliver sales performance, brand KPIs, financial targets, marketing objectives, etc. in order to meet or exceed on those objectives.
• Create pre-call plan using SMART objectives and execute post-call evaluation in order to continuously improve sales performance. Effectively handle objections, misunderstandings, concerns and consistently gain logical and reasonable calls to action in order to close on every sales call.
• Proactively and continuously aspire to serve customer needs, customer expectations and challenges in order to build trusted customer relationships and to achieve win-win agreements between AbbVie and customers.
• Develop and execute a call plan that achieves set call metrics and optimizes coverage and frequency to key customers in order to maximize access and sales opportunities.
• Continuously build understanding on customer needs and expectations, territory market landscape, competitors, market segments/dynamics, accounts, disease, product, clinical and sales expertise and share this market intelligence information with in-field team, brand team and sales manager to achieve alignment, to anticipate environmental changes and challenges and to optimize brand strategy and its execution.
• Differentiate AbbVie’s value proposition with health providers assigned and identify, develop and maintain disease state experts and speakers/advocates in order to maximize brand performance.

• Any governmental and/or or legal mandatory certification requirements as by respective country’s laws and/or regulations (if applicable.
• Bachelor's degree, biological sciences, pharmacy, business related field, or equivalent.
• Proven track record of success in selling and strong presentation skills
• Demonstrates in-depth scientific, therapeutic, product, and competitive knowledge and is recognized as an expert resource by all relevant stakeholders
• Strong business acumen and proficient use of business tools; possesses strategic and critical thinking capabilities
• Proactively identifies customer style / behavior and adapts quickly all aspects of selling approach
• Operates effectively in a matrix environment
• Offers innovative ideas and solutions to maximize business opportunities to address challenges. Provides impact with ideas for the larger organization and anticipates and responds to changes. Influences others & is viewed as a credible and respected role model and resource among peers. Builds collaborative partnership with district colleagues and matrix team, etc.
• Preferred: Proven track record of success in sales performance within respective therapeutic areas. Commercial pharmaceutical industry experiences such as physician/account based selling, training, managed health care or marketing preferred. English language proficiency verbally and in writing (for all non-English speaking countries).

Required Skills & Experience:

• Mandatory: 4-5 years of hands-on experience in government-Institutional sales in Tamil Nadu & Kerala.
• Science graduate, ideally with experience in Specialty Products
• Deep familiarity with government tendering, rate contracts, hospital listing protocols, and access pathways.
• Proven track record in new product introduction /inclusion in institutional business.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, stakeholder management, and influencing skills (especially with government officials and technical committees).
• High learning agility for new products, access, and regulatory requirements.
• Ability to travel across the region as needed.

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