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Pharmaceutical Information Specialist, Retail

5 day weekGenerous PTORemote · Zhengzhou, Henan, China

About the role

Job Description

R422996

Job Responsibilities:

Regional Objectives

¡ Achieve the assigned product targets within the designated region, making effective use of resources and controlling costs

¡ Develop and implement visit plans for healthcare institutions according to the company's required coverage and visit frequency

¡ Use appropriate promotional techniques and product materials effectively to provide medical information to healthcare institutions and introduce products (including handling questions), ensuring they understand and accept the product's characteristics

¡ Maintain high professional standards in visits, continuously improve healthcare institution satisfaction, and build long-term, positive cooperative relationships

¡ Tap into existing market potential and continuously develop potential markets to ensure the smooth achievement of targets

¡ Implement the company's market development strategies and plans, and complete the listing plan for new products

¡ Organize distinctive academic events to promote products in line with the company's promotional strategy

Regional Management

¡ Through regional target management, establish territory goals and plans, achieve expected targets, and develop potential markets within the territory

¡ Establish and promptly update, feed back, and maintain detailed and accurate healthcare institution records, and use this information to create action plans, schedule visits, and use time effectively and fully

¡ Regularly analyze regional conditions and identify high-potential markets as priorities for regional development

¡ Promptly notify medical staff or pharmacy staff at healthcare institutions of information regarding services, products, pricing, supply channels, market developments, etc.

¡ Track and understand clinical demand for products, ensure reasonable inventory levels, and prevent stockouts

¡ Work with the marketing and commercial departments and maintain good professional relationships with hospital specialists to support successful tenders and inclusion in medical insurance catalogs

¡ Understand competing products and competitors' activities, collect market intelligence on competing products, report it promptly to superiors, and provide corresponding recommendations

¡ Complete all reports accurately and on time

¡ Use the company's expenses and resources effectively and reasonably

Product Knowledge

¡ Maintain comprehensive, continuously updated product knowledge, ensuring product promotion information is consistent with the company's marketing department

¡ Continuously learn, become familiar with product materials, and apply them skillfully and flexibly

¡ Fully study and use other materials provided by the marketing department to support product promotion

¡ Read medical journals, articles, and reports related to products

¡ Understand the knowledge of competitors' similar products

Professional Conduct

¡ Ensure strict compliance with the company's SOPs, financial policies, and compliance requirements in product promotion and daily work, and ensure your conduct aligns with the company's ethical standards and principles

¡ Maintain a good professional image, dress in line with professional standards, and conduct yourself in accordance with company requirements

¡ Demonstrate dedication and actively commit to your work

Teamwork

¡ Actively participate in team activities

¡ Share information and exchange knowledge with colleagues, help each other, and grow together as individuals and as a team

¡ Complete temporary tasks assigned by supervisors

Requirements:

Educational Background

¡ Junior college degree or above in medicine, pharmacy, or related field

  • 2-3 years of hospital pharmaceutical sales experience; experience at foreign-invested pharmaceutical companies preferred

Skills

  • Job skills: product and market knowledge; product promotion techniques and processes; regional management; business acumen; coaching others

  • Behavioral competencies: customer focus; listening; problem solving; integrity and reliability; action orientation

  • Advanced behavioral competencies: self-awareness; communication skills; time management

Compliance Requirements

  • No record of commercial bribery

Additional location(s) Compensation Information:

Required Skills:

Account Management, Customer Needs Assessments, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Reporting, Sales Training, Self Motivation

Preferred Skills:

Current Employees apply HERE

Current Contingent Workers apply HERE

Search Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully

Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails.

Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

No relocation

VISA Sponsorship:

No

Travel Requirements:

No Travel Required

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Remote

Shift:

Not Indicated

Valid Driving License:

No

Hazardous Material(s):

N/A

Job Posting End Date:

01/2/2027

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About Merck

Global pharmaceutical leader (NASDAQ: MRK) offering 25 vacation days from day one regardless of tenure, 12 paid US holidays, and a 4-day year-end shutdown — ~41 days off per year for US employees.

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