Various Competences and Skills for Sales & Marketing Team

Generic Vs Innovative Pharma; Paradigm

Key Topics:

  • Facing competitor – Understanding Gx paradigm – Understanding Innovative paradigm Originator’s paradigm vs. Gx paradigm – identifying differences in market approach – competitive advantages

Objectives:

  • Identifying the best possible response/defence
  • Safeguarding our portfolio (what can I do?)
  • Gx vs. Innovative pharma business strongly recommended for all S&M Personnel

Designed for:

  • First Line Sales Manager, Medical Representatives, Product Manager, Product Specialist, Brand Manager, Key Account Manager

Negotiations Incl. Pricing Rules, Resolving Conflicts

Key Topics:

  • Ground rules – Sources of negotiating power – Negotiation styles & characteristics – 4×5 Rules for negotiations -Negotiation aide-memoire
  • Including: Managing conflict Common (false) assumptions – Why avoiding conflicts? -
  • Resolution methods (+ 5 ineffective approaches) -8 useful steps

Objectives:

  • “Getting under the skin” of prescriber
  • Persuiting win-win outcome in every call

Designed for:

  • First Line Sales Manager
  • Medical Representatives
  • Product Manager
  • Product Specialist
  • Brand Manager
  • Key Account Manager

Tips & Tricks in Sales

Key Topics:

  • Presentation – Communication – Responding to resistance – Open/Closed Questions – Unique Selling Point – Sales Meeting Phases – Reading the Signals etc.

Objectives:

  • Increase awareness for details that are generating sales
  • Responding to resistance
  • Improving customer relationship

Designed for:

  • First Line Sales Manager, Medical Representatives, Key Account Manager

Recommended for:

  • Brand Manager

Key Account Management

Key Topics:

  • Profiling – Influence Networks – Individual Priorities – Sales PoA – Implementation – Follow up Objectives
  • Formalise a solid and implementable planning process
  • Provide a framework to analyze and strategically approach their Accounts;
  • Specifically target customers with a relevant approach based on their roles and needs
  • Analyse decision making units and understand influence networks
  • Create individual Sales Action Plans

Designed for:

  • Product Manager, Product Specialist, Key Account Manager

Recommended for:

  • First Line Sales Manager, Brand Manager

Control of Influence

Key Topics:

  • Creating rapport – Body language – Moves – Voice – Language
  • Tips&Techiques for great presentations

Objectives:

  • Controlling influence in presentation (being “in charge”)
  • “Getting under the skin” of prescriber/customer
  • Pursuiting win-win outcome in every call

Designed for:

  • First Line Sales Manager
  • Medical Representatives
  • Product Manager
  • Product Specialist
  • Brand Manager
  • Key Account Manager

Intrapreneuship

Key Topics:

  • Changes – Motivation (4 kinds of Motivation)
  • Non- vs. Intrapreneurial Factors
  • Understanding Sales Process
  • Success – Why some people fail? (16 reasons) Objectives
  • Inducing Internal Entrepreneurship in a big System
  • Encourage Innovation, Out-of- Box thinking and spuring risk&accountability-taking attitude

Designed for:

  • First Line Sales Manager
  • Medical Representatives
  • Product Manager
  • Product Specialist
  • Brand Manager
  • Key Account Manager

Finance for Non-financial Managers

Key Topics:

  • Balance Sheet
  • Income (Profit / Loss) Statement
  • Cash Flow
  • Basic Budgeting
  • Profitability Ratios (Profit Marging – Return on Assets – Return on Investment)
  • Cash vs. Profit
  • Working Capital (Payables – Receivables – Inventory)
  • Break Even Point
  • Monthly Management Operating Plan
  • Business Plan

Objectives:

  • Understanding underlying financial rationale for facts&figures based business decisions

Designed for:

  • First Line Sales Manager
  • Medical Representatives
  • Product Manager
  • Product Specialist
  • Brand Manager
  • Key Account Manager

Quantified Swot

Four steps operation:

  1. Opportunities and Threats – review analysis and synthesise into one weighted list of key Os & Ts
  2. Streghts and Weaknesses – review analysis and synthesise into one weighted list of key Ss & Ws
  3. Pull S, W, O, T together in one graphical conclusion – relating S&Ws to O&Ts – see picture
  4. Interpret information to derive Key Sucess Factors – Objectives – Resources

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Enabling to:

  • develop a competitive strategy for the company/product/brand based on the analysis of
    • (i) market opportunities (O&T) and
    • (ii) business strengths (S&W)
  • understand the balance environmental attributes (i.e. O&T) and our attributes (i.e. S&W)
  • isolate Key Success Factors, crucial to the successful implementation of the strategy
  • start elaborating on marketing objectives and resources

Designed for:

  • First Line Sales Manager
  • Medical Representatives
  • Product Manager
  • Product Specialist
  • Brand Manager
  • Key Account Manager